As Trump prepares to wade once more into the heated immigration debate, the campaign is taking care to craft the critical speech, which the campaign absolutely wants to get right, the source said.
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Yakkity yak, walk it back.
WASHINGTON – Republican Donald Trump insists that he’s not flip-flopping when it comes to his proposal to deport the estimated 11 million people living in the United States illegally – even though his new campaign manager now says his stance is “to be determined”. “No, I’m not flip-flopping”, he told Fox News. “We are dealing with people-We have to be very firm”. But we want to come up with something fair, ” Trump said. We have to be very firm.
During an interview with Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Monday, Trump dismissed BuzzFeed’s credibility and said the USA needs to be “very firm” and “very strong” with people who “come in illegally”. “We have a lot of people that want to come in through the legal process and it’s not fair for them”, he said. But, he said, Trump could support some measure of “amnesty” without sacrificing his deportation plans.
Over the weekend, Buzzfeed ran a story headlined “In Reversal, Trump Indicates To Hispanic Leaders Openness To Legalization For Immigrants”.
While struggling to keep up with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the polls, Mr Trump has addressed black and Hispanic voters in recent days with the aim of broadening his support beyond white working-class voters.
A Buzzfeed report suggested Trump was “open” to a plan that would provide pathways to naturalization for some illegal US residents – which would represent a seismic policy shift for the billionaire.
Ms Conway had said on Sunday that Mr Trump “doesn’t hurl personal insults”. But moments later, she said the campaign had no intention of releasing tax returns that were not being audited.
No “personal insults” from Trump? At last month’s GOP convention, the Republican National Committee’s director of Hispanic communications, Helen Aguirre Ferre, told reporters at a Spanish-language briefing that Trump has said he will not do massive deportations. Jeff Sessions, a longtime ally of Trump’s, emphasized that “there’s not going to be mass round-ups and that kind of thing” in the Republican nominee’s immigration plan.
Chen said Trump could theoretically maintain a tough-on-enforcement stance that might appeal to voters now skeptical of his harsh rhetoric by adopting a nuanced approach similar to the priority-based system unveiled by President Barack Obama in 2014.
“Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. That’s just plain fact”.
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It will be hard for Mr Trump to convince Hispanic voters and moderates that his change of heart is authentic. “At the same time, protecting American jobs and American workers and also securing our borders, obviously”.
