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Donald Trump, Alabama and the ghost of George Wallace
Politico ^ | 08/21/2015 | BEN SCHRECKINGER

Posted on 08/22/2015 5:28:28 AM PDT by Flick Lives

MOBILE, Ala. — It was immigration, not segregation, that brought some 20,000 southerners — far fewer than predicted — out for Donald Trump on Friday night, but the ghost of George Wallace loomed large.

Wallace, an avowed segregationist, was the last presidential candidate to win electoral votes as a third-party candidate. The threat of Trump doing so, propelled by a hardline immigration stance that many have condemned as racist, looms over the Republican Party now as it did over the Democratic Party then, even as the enthusiasm of his following, for once, fell far short of expectations.

Wallace carried five Southern states, and Trump, who is leading early national polls in the race for the Republican nomination, touted his leads in Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Texas.

Trump also panned birthright citizenship as a bad deal for the U.S., saying, “We’re the only place just about that’s stupid enough to do it.” Trump’s recently released immigration plan calls for ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, according to the legal consensus, though Trump disputes that point.

Trump invited Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, one of Congress’s most ardent immigration hardliners who helped the businessman craft his immigration plan, to the podium, where the two embraced.

He also attacked his favorite punching bag, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, on the issue. “ Jeb Bush, ugh,” said Trump, pausing for dramatic effect, before calling the former governor “totally in favor of Common Core, weak on immigration.”

Praising a woman who had brought Trump’s book “Art of the Deal” to the rally, he said, “I’ve got to get her the hell out of here, she’s so beautiful.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; benschreckinger; mindlessmeandering; politico; trump; wallace
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To: Maelstorm
Totally agree.

Look how many weeks he put up with the hyper-annoying Omarosa.


61 posted on 08/22/2015 6:54:58 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: pugmama

I think he was wearing a “vest” under that jacket.

yes he has a vest on. i heard a whack when he took the notes out of his pocket


62 posted on 08/22/2015 6:57:55 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: nascarnation

It’s a MAN baby!!! lol


63 posted on 08/22/2015 6:58:57 AM PDT by mkjessup (Iran has an ayatollah for it's 'supreme leader', America has an ASSAHOLLAH !!!)
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To: txrefugee

How many watched it?


64 posted on 08/22/2015 6:59:49 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Television lighting is incredibly hot. The makeup also keeps the skin from breathing normally. Usually entertainers have makeup people ‘drying’ the face in between commercials. That plus a vest would make him look hot.


65 posted on 08/22/2015 7:02:39 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: mkjessup

When she was on the Apprentice back in 04, I had no idea who MooseChelle Robinson Obama was, but there are a lot of similarities.


66 posted on 08/22/2015 7:02:55 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: quantumman

I was a junior in high school when Wallace was shot. It was a turning point. Nixon had been heavily discredited and the very viable democrat candidacy was the aim of Wallace. Bremer fit the cia type of assassin/fall guy. Either Nixon, or maybe Humphrey-McGovern, wanted Wallace out of the way. Being shot 5 times has to grab your attention, with one in the spine. Nixon later moved more to the right to absorb some of Wallace’s views on desegregation. We were riding busses all over town to go to school, it was crazy. This era marked the resurgence of the liberalism/progressivism that under kennedy/johnson, carter, and later clinton, and now obola, has led to the now-defacto-suspended US constitution and freedoms.


67 posted on 08/22/2015 7:04:07 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Flick Lives

More Pollutico garbage.


68 posted on 08/22/2015 7:07:26 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Flick Lives

Ah, Trump is from NYC..and as far as i know is not a segregationist?
Politico is not to be taken seriously.


69 posted on 08/22/2015 7:07:37 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: miss marmelstein

She appears to be experiencing great happiness, perhaps even spiritual joy.

On the other hand, maybe she’s just delighted that Trump isn’t killing her kid, the way the Democrats do.


70 posted on 08/22/2015 7:08:02 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Flick Lives

Another attempt to try and tar Trump with something that has no bearing to reality.

The Immigration issue is one of absolute serious debate. No country can have uncontrolled immigration and survive.

We have only to look at Europe with his and the movement of Muslims to Western Europe. They do not assimilate in the culture of the countries they are in and are destroying these countries.

Same with all those coming in from our southern border, we are being taken over and bankrupted in the same manner.

The Left doesn’t seem to care as all they see are potential new voters for Democrats but can’t see or don’t care about the long term destruction to our country and way of life.


71 posted on 08/22/2015 7:08:14 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: miss marmelstein

The high yesterday in downtown Mobile was 91 degrees F. Trump’s appearance was scheduled for after 6pm local time, so maybe at the time it was a degree or two lower, but no more than that. Right now the temperature and the humidity are both in the eighties. This is weather that can fairly be described as “muggy” or “close.”


72 posted on 08/22/2015 7:10:07 AM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Tanniker Smith

I keep reading the 20K number attendance in a lot of posts when....

MOBILE, Alabama (CNN) —Donald Trump brought 30,000 supporters from deep red Alabama to a Friday night pep rally in a football stadium, the latest sign that the Republican front-runner has broad, nationwide strength.

I’m going with 30K. Thank you very much.


73 posted on 08/22/2015 7:10:18 AM PDT by airdalechief
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To: kvanbrunt2

If you look at post 44-you can see the outline of it? Glad he is wearing it.


74 posted on 08/22/2015 7:12:54 AM PDT by pugmama
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To: nascarnation
He even brought her back to compete on Celebrity Apprentice.

Kwami Jackson was the runner-up in season 1. Omarosa undermined him in the final task.

Trump hired Jackson to be a judge at the next Miss USA pageant.

-PJ

75 posted on 08/22/2015 7:14:04 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Sons of Union Vets

It really is a great pic!!!

I hope his team put together some great video for campaign ads. Look at all those happy people!!!


76 posted on 08/22/2015 7:24:33 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Mathews

Establishment boy on fox was saying 12-15,000. Knew he was lying, paid off tool.


77 posted on 08/22/2015 7:34:56 AM PDT by Carry me back (.Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Flick Lives

Just stop the nonsense. Dealing with criminal illegal aliens invading our Nation has nothing to do with nor any comparison to segregation.
Illegal aliens are criminals. No other nation in the world allows 100;s of thousands of people to swarm across their borders with out taking some action to stop of control it.


78 posted on 08/22/2015 7:37:18 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: FlyingEagle

Busing was evil communism. Wallace was right if he opposed that.


79 posted on 08/22/2015 7:44:19 AM PDT by Carry me back (.Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: USS Alaska
You will get a good job and will love America {and your President, me} and all bad things will end, including obamacare.

I can't tell where you're coming from exactly...parody...serious...or combination of both. I'm all for that above, but I'm far from comfortable that DT has the right prescriptions for obama care and to a some degree, for jobs. He's sounded right liberal on some of these issues very very recently.

80 posted on 08/22/2015 7:46:36 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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