It’s a question of safety, Clinton warned in a rare Medium post on Tuesday: “Radical jihadists are telling people that the United States hates Muslims – and there’s Donald Trump on TV screaming about how he’s going to keep all Muslims out”, the former secretary of state wrote.
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The party leaders know the sound bite will surely make for eye-popping news, sucking oxygen from their lungs and revealing insidiously what too many Republican Party voters believe deeply inside; but never admit publicly or socially. Huma Abedin, John Podesta, Jen Palmieri, Robby Mook, heck even, Bill Clinton can’t do for Hillary Clinton what Trump has done. But there has not been one in more than 60 years.
Fox News polled 437 likely Republican voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points, and 364 Democratic voters for a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points. He understands that Trump in his party, and Bernie Sanders on the other side, are feeding on that lost faith.
Rep. David Lewis, a Harnett County Republican who’s on the state party’s national committee, says the GOP is working to turn out out votes regardless of the nominee. Order and safety trumps (excuse the pun) freedom when government needs to balance them.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz recently described his policy on Islamic State militants as “carpet-bomb them into oblivion”.
An angry base of White, working and middle class voters emboldened by the Tea Party movement, Fox News and Trump are pulling Republicans in the direction of xenophobia and racism which Millennial movements for racial and economic justice and immigrant and LGBTQ rights are pushing Democrats toward a more inclusive society.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen.
Of all endangered 2016 Republicans, Kirk knows Trump is a general election nightmare for him. “You want to control your own politician”.
At the same time, Republicans are annoyed that Trump also in recent days suggested he might run as an independent candidate despite his previous pledge not to quit the party.
Democrats seem committed to Clinton, with 54 percent saying they have made up their minds.
Since then, however, as evidence has accumulated that many Republican voters agree with the billionaire businessman, the chorus of criticism has grown muted. But if the GOP decides to fight Trump until the bitter end, those kind of answers are hardly fighting words. And to join with the governing elite in their politically correct assault on Trump’s character for having offered a statement that speaks to the public’s desire for action on the problem of radical Islam in our midst would make him irrelevant.
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He’s more intelligent because unlike them Cruz understands that a majority of Americans, and a large majority of Republicans, are queasy about the presence of a large Muslim community in the United States in the aftermath of Paris and San Bernardino. In a matter of weeks, he has taken attention away from Clinton’s summertime “-gates” (email servers, Benghazi, etc.), has thrown her opponents in disarray, has focused every ounce of media attention away from her most viable competitors, and has become the incendiary face of the party.
