Posted on 07/11/2015 8:29:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
Donald Trump did not back down from controversial statements he made about immigration from Mexico, telling reporters Friday that his comments were taken out of context, and repeating his statements that Mexico is sending people to the U.S. that “Mexico doesn’t want.”
Trump spoke at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills after meeting with families of those killed by undocumented immigrants.
“People came into the country illegally and killed their children. And it’s a very, very, sad thing what’s happening with our country … And nobody wants to talk about it,” Trump said. Trump also referenced the high-profile killing of a woman in San Francisco allegedly by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported five times in the past…
“No one really listened to us, our story really wasn’t heard,” said Sabine Durden, whose 30-year-old son was killed by a driver who was an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala three years ago. “When I heard Mr. Trump, I started screaming,” she said. “Finally, someone who had the guts to say what millions are thinking.”
Donald Trump, who became the center of attention in the race for the 2016 Republican U.S. presidential nomination with his denunciation of illegal immigrants from Mexico, has vaulted into a virtual dead heat with Jeb Bush atop the field, a Reuters-Ipsos poll released on Saturday showed.
Trump, a billionaire real estate developer, had the support of 15.8 percent of respondents in the online poll of self-identified Republicans compared to 16.1 percent for Bush, a former Florida governor.
They were followed by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at 9.5 percent, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul at 8.1 percent, surgeon and author Ben Carson at 7.2 percent and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at 5.8 percent.
However, given a choice of three candidates – Bush, Trump or Florida Senator Marco Rubio – Bush had a comfortable lead at 42 percent among the respondents in the Reuters-Ipsos Republican poll, compared to 28.4 percent for Trump and 20 percent for Rubio.
If Trump runs, I’ll vote. Anyone who doesn’t because they can’t choose the lesser evil, deserves the greater evil. You gave us Obama.
“Trump’s touched more than a nerve. He’s connected to a zeitgeist,” Steve Deace, a conservative radio host, told The Hill of Trump’s resonance with right-wing voters.
“[His immigration stance] is not always eloquently worded, but it is the spirit of what most of the GOP base actually thinks,” he added.
In his speech, Trump plans to single out several campaign opponents by name. People familiar with Trump’s prepared remarks said he intends to go after former Florida governor Jeb Bush for having said many immigrants come to the United States out of an “act of love”; to cast Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) as a typical politician for once trying to achieve comprehensive immigration reform, a priority of President Obama’s; and to accuse former Texas governor Rick Perry of being weak and unable to secure his state’s border with Mexico…
Sam Nunberg, a Trump adviser, said Trump’s goal is to be a conduit for Republicans who feel like outsiders within their own party, especially on immigration.
“His persona is a mix of Ross Perot and Ronald Reagan,” Nunberg said in an interview Friday. “A successful businessman disliked by the elites, a natural communicator, and someone who speaks for and is part of the conservative base.”
Trump has risen from petty distraction to campaign sensation, rising near the top of national and early-state polling on the backs of his universal name recognition, a platform appealing to the GOP fringes, and a steady stream of inflammatory comments.
This has led campaigns and Republican leaders to rethink their response to Trump. Initial efforts to ignore him have failed, daily denunciations of him have only increased his visibility, putting him into first place in the GOP field according to one online-only poll sponsored by YouGov and The Economist. A candidate that many Republicans long courted for his megaphone and populist following now threatens to tar the larger party with comments about rapists and criminals flooding over the southern border…
“The first rule of politics when you’re in a hole is to stop digging,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said at the Atlantic Council on Wednesday. “Someone needs to take the shovel out of Donald Trump’s hands.”…
One strategy that is growing in favor is to treat him like any other candidate, and using his well-documented record of inflammatory, contradictory, and unorthodox statements against him.
Republican politicians love to talk about issues that…
A) …Are hot with the top hat and monocle set at the Chamber of Commerce.
B) …Were big when Reagan was in office 25+ years ago.
C) …Are cave-ins to liberal demands.
When Donald Trump talked about illegal immigrant crime, he tapped into a powerful issue that wasn’t even on the radar of most Republicans in Congress. Not only was he right about all the crime coming over the border, it’s an issue that has been percolating under the surface for a long time (See 7 Horrible Crimes Committed in America By Illegal Aliens from May of 2014). It’s also something that puts Democrats on the defensive since they’re the ones demanding that we refuse to enforce our current immigration laws. If Democrats had just obeyed the laws on the books, how many Americans would be alive today? How many American women have been raped by illegal immigrants because Democrats are stopping the border patrol from doing its job? How many American children have been needlessly molested?
When Trump talks about that issue or not just building a wall, but forcing Mexico to pay for it since it’s encouraging its citizens to break our laws, he’s hitting pay dirt. When he says countries like Saudi Arabia should pay America for defending them, it’s music to the ears of a lot of Americans. Given that we’re running a deficit every year, shouldn’t we at least be having a real discussion about whether we’re getting enough bang for our buck out of our foreign aid and overseas military spending? The American people would certainly love to have that discussion. So where has the Republican Party been on these issues and why did it take Donald Trump to get people talking about them?
I truly, honestly, and with all my heart and mind think Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are making a yuuuuuuge mistake. I think they are being conned and played. I feel like a guy whose brother is being taken advantage of by a grifter. I’m watching helplessly as the con artist congratulates him for taking out a third mortgage…
You seem to think he’s an immigration hardliner, and he’s certainly pretending to be. But why can’t you see through it? He condemned Mitt Romney as an immigration hardliner in 2012 and favored comprehensive immigration reform. He told Bill O’Reilly he was in favor of a “path to citizenship” for 30 million illegal immigrants:
“Trump: You have to give them a path. You have 20 million, 30 million, nobody knows what it is. It used to be 11 million. Now, today I hear it’s 11, but I don’t think it’s 11. I actually heard you probably have 30 million. You have to give them a path, and you have to make it possible for them to succeed. You have to do that.”
Question: Just how many rapists and drug dealers did Donald Trump want to give green cards to?…
Eventually, I suspect, this will be the cause of his undoing. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know about conservatism, and at some point he will say something that even his biggest fans will recognize as a damning revelation about the real man beneath the schtick. The only question is whether he implodes before or after he does permanent damage to the GOP’s chances in 2016.
Donald Trump Press Conference In L.A. with Family Members of People Killed by Illegal Immigrants Via RCP.
Which should be obvious since many of the intruders don't even come from Mexico, they only pass through. Mexico allows them to continue through because they sure as heck don't want them to stop and move in.
He admitted to it=allegedly. I’m really tired of that word.
Where have you been? He announced his candidacy over four weeks ago
But Mexico sends many back who come into Mexico illegally, unless the US
Especially if they come from the US.
That aside, I wasn't talking about those who came into Mexico illegally. I was talking about the ones who were taken on buses, trains, and airplanes THROUGH MEXICO to get to the US, completely with the permission of the Mexican government and financed by the US government.
They’ve been twisting and misquoting Trump’s initial statements from his announcement speech of weeks ago and pretty well flogged that to death. In his speeches of Friday night and Saturday he provided lots of new material over which they can have a collective fecal hemorrhage.
I think another thing that has them flummoxed, and which they can’t talk about publicly is what Jamiel Shaw said about his liberal black friends calling him up to tell him that Trump’s on TV and that they’re voting for Trump. OMG! They are having nightmares about many of their captive black voters suddenly stampeding off the democRAT plantation.
The quote of the day for conservatives should have been the big huge red flag Trump ran up with his support of socialized medicine.
“We have to take care of everybody...get used to it conservatives.” — Donald Trump, July 11, 2015, Phoenix, AZ
He made it crystal clear that he thinks he can do socialism better than Obama.
“I truly, honestly, and with all my heart and mind think Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are making a yuuuuuuge mistake. I think they are being conned and played. I feel like a guy whose brother is being taken advantage of by a grifter. I’m watching helplessly as the con artist congratulates him for taking out a third mortgage…”
Then Trump must be conning and playing his own self, because he’s losing a lot business-wise by running for President, and also has to suffer the slings and arrows of the MSM, Dems, and certain alleged conservatives who seem to have a big desire to lose another Presidential election by choosing another dull, lifeless politician who will still be a milquetoast President.
Trump will cream Hitlery, and although he may have a few flaws and/or rough edges, he will take care of the important things that need to be done in our country, without having to be beholding to anyone, as he is a billionaire. And The Donald is a patriot; he truly loves our country, unlike the current imposter we have for Prez. We are incredibly lucky to have someone running for Prez that can self fund (especially as Jeb Bush is gathering a lot of big donors, and none of the other candidates could come close to matching Jeb). But Trump can. Thank goodness for Trump.
Stop looking for perfection in a candidate There is no such thing. Trump has made many of his positions pretty doggone clear, and he’s not going to disappoint the American people by screwing them once in office. I think he has the potential to be a great President.
I am listening to Trump’s speech in Phoenix today 7/11/15. Clear and connected. The border is clearly broken. Tump is connected to business and political leaders. He deserves full respect and support, since he has a clear and connected message.
Ha. He’s done that before. Every time (twice now) my fellow conservatives have said he’s not a “real” conservative, however. I don’t think there is such a thing because none of us seem to agree what that is. So half of them stop voting as a result, and then we get Obama.
I thought I would clear that up.
Not just seeing it, but doing it myself.
Thanks
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