Majorities in Republican primary states told pollsters they backed letting immigrants stay but also voted for Trump.
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“To Hillary Clinton, and to her donors and advisers, pushing her to spread her smears and her lies about decent people, I have three words”, he said.
As the rally got underway, Donald Trump did not veer from his script after his former Republican primary rival, Ben Carson, introduced him to a cheering crowd.
When pressed on the similarities between his position and Trump’s new stance, Bush said with a laugh: “Well I’m sure I influenced his position”. In an interview that aired not even 24 hours before his Thursday comments, Trump’s position on the issue was similarly muddled: he suggested his administration could “work with” the millions of illegal immigrants who are already residing in the country.
“I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve heard very strong people come up to me – really great, great people come up to me – and they’ve said, ‘Mr Trump, I love you but to take person who’s been here for 15 or 20 years, and throw them and their family out, it’s so tough, Mr Trump.’ I have it all the time”.
“We either have our country or we don’t”. Half of those who back Trump believe immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than those born here, the Pew data show, while a third say immigrants don’t work as hard as Americans and 35% say illegals “mostly fill jobs US citizens would like”. But now, with his newest campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, he appears to be backing away from the mass deportation plan, although he still says he’s opposed to amnesty and any path toward legalization. “They want to obey the law”, Trump said. “You can’t take 11 at one time and just say, ‘Boom, you’re gone.’ We have to find where these people are”, Trump said in response.
He argued on Thursday that Clinton’s opposition to charter schools and vouchers locked minority students in failing jobs, that her tax policies would hurt black-owned businesses and that she would allow immigrants to take jobs from minorities.
Donald Trump’s favorability is heading back up, according to the latest survey by Reuters and Ipsos.
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the Democratic presidential nominee kept up her verbal assault on Trump’s campaign, asserting it is built on “prejudice and paranoia” and caters to a radical fringe of the Republican Party.
WASHINGTON (AP) Donald Trump defeated 16 rivals in the Republican primaries by being the most anti-immigrant of them all, promising to build a giant wall on the border and deport millions.
“And let’s not forget Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called ‘birthers, ‘” Clinton continued.
King, who called the initial softening a “mistake”, now says Trump’s consideration of legal status “gives me an uneasy feeling in my stomach”.
Trump also sought this week to moderate his earlier comments on immigration.
Taylor was asked about it during a conference call organized by Clinton’s campaign on a different topic.
He was pressed on what would happen in cases where immigrants didn’t have anywhere to return, and Trump responded: “We will work with them”.
Trump’s shifting locutions also prompted some conservatives to compare Trump to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a member of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” in the Senate who led a failed attempt at immigration reform in 2013. The Trump campaign has done little to push back on those accusations.
The meeting comes as Trump tries to increase his outreach to black and Latino voters, saying his economic policies would help minorities. “More importantly, you don’t get to the White House without addressing the nation’s civil rights agenda”.
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But Trump’s rhetoric has been so off-key – arguing that blacks are so desperate that they have nothing to lose by taking a wild flyer on him – that he is nearly certainly going to underperform among African-Americans.
