Trump campaign officials and surrogates tried to calm the furor on the Sunday talk shows by insisting he has been consistent.
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Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, has said she’s pushing her boss to get more specific.
This weekend in Iowa, Trump returned to a hardline position, telling supporters that on “day one” he’d use existing laws to deport what he called “hundreds and thousands” of criminals who are in the country illegally.
For Hispanics, Trump suggests not only a wall built across our southern border, but the deportation of over 11 million people now living in the United States.
That was never realistic. With a firm reluctance to enter another US war in the Middle East, the United States has focused its military efforts on fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria and in Iraq while pursuing so-far failed diplomatic efforts to end the civil war. “He’ll punch on the personal stuff”, predicted Democratic strategist Steve McMahon, who worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward M. Kennedy, Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean.
In a gesture to Iowa’s agriculture industry, Trump renewed his commitment to continuing a requirement that all gasoline sold contain an ethanol-based additive, an issue important to corn growers.
“We are going to end the EPA intrusion into your family homes and family farms for no reason”, Trump told the crowd. Ailes armed Ronald Reagan with the memorable line used against Democratic opponent Walter Mondale in a 1984 debate when the issue of Reagan’s age came up: “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience”.
In his speech on Saturday in Iowa, Trump said he would seek to institute a tracking system to ensure illegal immigrants who overstay their visas are quickly removed, and would propose an e-verify system to prevent undocumented residents from gaining access to welfare and other benefits. His remark was interpreted by some to suggest he’s open to giving them legal status, but he later clarified he’s not. Trump wouldn’t say later in the week, in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “They basically want to make the case that you either stand with Ryan or with Trump, that Trump is much worse than regular Republicans, and they don’t want us to tie Trump to other Republicans because they think it makes him look normal”. The analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with USA federal employees or foreign government representatives.
Johnson says on “Fox News Sunday” that his polling numbers are rising and that his campaign is spending money in many states. “He is saying that, as well”. Yet, they also question the practicality of supporting a third-party candidate.
But this didn’t just start with Trump’s campaign. 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney lost eight of those nine states. Nevertheless, the Trump campaign is optimistic that time remains for a turnaround, a position buttressed by the new ad buy. He said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the question of whether citizenship is a birthright is “a subject for the future”.
“I know Donald Trump”, Priebus said.
Across the Sunday news shows, a parade of Mr Trump stand-ins, led by vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, could not say whether Mr Trump was sticking with or changing a central promise to use a “deportation force” to expel immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
In a speech on August 25 that flayed the Republican nominee as an outlier channeling the views of white supremacists and courting the “fringe element” of his party, Clinton invoked the names of former President George W. Bush, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Arizona Senator John McCain and former Senator Bob Dole, the 1996 Republican nominee, to set up the contrast with Trump.
“It’s hard to say what if, any impact, something so undefined may have”.
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In his speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump made six references to the conflict in Syria, pointing to the war-ravaged nation as a source of much of the world’s turmoil, particularly immigration and extremism.
