Club for Growth says $1 million ad buy hurt Trump

A conservative economic organization says its anti-Donald Trump ad campaign is one reason for the billionaire's sinking numbers in Iowa.

The ad buy may have helped. In a new poll of likely Iowa caucus participants conducted by Basswood Research, Trump has fallen into second place behind Dr. Ben Carson, 21 to 16 percent. Marco Rubio is five points behind Trump in third place.

The Hill reports the survey questioned 500 likely GOP caucus-goers and Club for Growth commissioned the poll.

We currently allow ONE MILLION+ immigrants each year. 95% of those are sponsored by close relatives. 90% of those are low skilled immigrants, and 60% of them end on public dole.

Trump wants to allow American educated highly intelligent college graduates allowed to immigrate INSTEAD of the millions of under-educated immigrants.

It is not expansion of immigrants. It is improving quality of immigrants, and reducing welfare candidate immigrants.

FYI:Per Trump's Policy Paper on Immigration:

Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities."

To show how good Trump is doing now here is polling from the past.

Carter here was 34% better than Reagan, and other polls showed in 30 percentiles range over Reagan in January or February of 1980. It was almost an astronomical number over Reagan.

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Harris polling - "President Carter so dominates the American political scene now that his margin over Ronald Reagan in a post-Iowa trial heat has risen to an overwhelming 65-31 percent. And against George Bush, the GOP candidate who finished first in the recent Iowa caucuses, Carter leads by only a slightly lower 62-32 percent. "

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/Harris-Interactive-Poll-Research-CARTER-NOW-FAR-AHEAD-OF-BOTH-REAGAN-AND-BUSH-1980-01.pdf

Trump can move the positive vote needle with the best of them.

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