GOP Sen. Roger Wicker of MS, who leads the Senate GOP’s campaign committee, downplayed any division between presidential candidates and vulnerable Senate Republicans. Who should we let into our country? I understand why he regrets having taken the position he did. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are rising in the polls.
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The Courageous Conservatives PAC, a super Pac supporting Cruz, is airing a radio and Internet ad in Iowa this week that blasts Rubio for backing “amnesty”. “To say we are on the same [page] on the immigration issue is to say my position and Barack Obama’s position on health care is the same”.
Carson also was asked about Trump comparing him to a sex offender because of his pathological violence as a youth. Unfortunately, I got a few opposition. Trump’s takeaway: “Violent criminal?” “The argument that we need to secure the border first is an argument that I was making over, and over, and over again”.
What the United States has always had going for it is not just that it’s an immigrant nation, and so it is guaranteed a steady stream of dreamers and doers with an ironclad sense of optimism.
Yet that’s what Rubio has been saying for the last few years, and the narrative that the 2016 Republican presidential candidate clings to whenever immigration comes up.
Both camps blame the other for the GOP’s lack of success – except for George W. Bush – over the past two-plus decades.
The Floridian, however, seemed to shift his own stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement now under review in Congress. While he supported fast-tracking approval of the agreement in a vote earlier this year, and his office then told National Review that he “read the TPP text weeks ago”, on Monday night Rubio sounded uncertain, and said he’d have to review the final document.
“We’re exhausted of politicians who blow smoke”.
In his plan, Cruz pledges to “shut down President Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty on day one” of his presidency. He did not address what he would do with the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the USA today.
The Cruz advisor added: “Cruz was joined by Sens. He is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally”. As Eliana Johnson and Alexis Levinson explain, Rubio was referring to was Cruz’s introduction, during the debate over the Gang of Eight bill, of an amendment that would have removed the language in the bill that granted citizenship to those here illegally but nonetheless allowed them to remain in the country with legal status.
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Other states that would be impacted by repealing the health law’s Medicaid expansion include OH, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and IL, all represented by Republican senators facing tough re-election fights next year in presidential battleground states targeted by Democrats. It also benefits from being the land of second chances, where down-on-their-luck immigrants go for one last opportunity after they’ve struck out elsewhere.
