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Most GOP Senators Defecting from Trump Backed Amnesty Push
Lifezette ^ | 12 Oct 2016 | Jeffrey H. Anderson

Posted on 10/12/2016 5:29:17 AM PDT by Gamecock

In a 2013 email published a few days ago by WikiLeaks, Hillary Clinton expressed views wildly at odds with those of the American citizenry: “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.” Most of Donald Trump’s Republican defectors are poised to help her achieve her open-borders dream.

As Republican elites continue to defy Republican voters on the crucial issue of immigration, it’s not surprising that the Senate’s open-borders crowd is refusing to back the man who—largely because of his hawkish immigration position — was chosen by Republican voters to be their party’s nominee. While only 30 percent of Senate Republicans voted for the open-borders “Gang of Eight” legislation (30 percent too many), the percentage was far higher among Trump defectors. Among senators who were in office in 2013, 55 percent (6 of 11) of those who now say that they cannot support Trump voted to support the “Gang of Eight” legislation.

Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.) says she “cannot support” and “will not vote for” Trump. Susan Collins (R., Maine) says she “could not support” Trump. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) says Trump “needs to withdraw from the race.” Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) says Trump “should drop out.” John McCain (R., Ariz.) says he “will not vote for” Trump (but will instead “write in the name of some good” Republican, who in McCain’s imagination is running for president). And Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) says she “cannot and will not support” Trump, who has “has forfeited the right to be our party’s nominee.” All six voted for the Gang of Eight bill.

Over in the House, Speaker Paul Ryan has largely withdrawn his support from Trump, saying he’ll no longer campaign for him and will not defend him (although he still endorses him). Now that Marco Rubio has been (partially) chastened, Ryan is perhaps the most prominent and forceful Republican backer of open-borders immigration law.

The Gang of Eight legislation wasn’t voted upon in the House after it passed the Senate, so it’s harder to gauge rank-and-file House members’ views on the matter. The Huffington Post, however, published a list of 121 Republican House members that the Gang of Eight reportedly thought were “persuadable on immigration reform.” That’s only about half of the Republicans in the House at the time, yet most Trump defectors appeared on that list. Of the 17 Republicans who were in the House in 2013 and aren’t currently supporting Trump (according to USA Today’s list), 13 (76 percent) were listed among those who were “persuadable” on immigration. And that doesn’t even include Cory Gardner (R., Colo.), who was on that list as a congressman and is now a Trump defector in the Senate.

In sum, very few Republican officeholders who oppose Trump are losing much sleep over what Hillary Clinton would do on immigration, with Republican assistance, over the next four years. As Margot Anderson put it on Monday at the Federalist, "Republicans’ glee in joining the Trump takedown shows the wheels are already greased for Clinton’s identity-politics agenda if she gets elected."

On this issue, as on most issues, the citizenry has a better sense of what’s right than the ruling class does. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 1970, 4.7 percent of those living in the United States were immigrants. After four-and-a-half decades of rampant illegal immigration, that percentage is now 13.6 percent—higher even than during the great waves of immigration in 1880 or 1920. Within eight years, the Census Bureau says, we will break the all-time mark of 14.8 percent, set in 1890.

Meanwhile, the position held by President Obama and Hillary Clinton is that immigrants shouldn’t be assimilated into the American way of life, but rather "integrated" into an identity-politics regime. As my colleague John Fonte writes, this is the difference between encouraging "new immigrants to think of themselves as Americans first and foremost," and prioritizing "ethnic, racial, and gender identities over a unifying national identity."

These are serious matters — most importantly for the future of the country, but also for the future of the Republican Party. John Kraushaar, writing for National Journal on Monday, observed, "Republican Party leaders have been grappling with an uncomfortable reality: Their most reliable voters are entirely disconnected from the GOP leadership." Nowhere is that truer than on immigration — and the GOP divide over immigration goes a long way toward explaining the GOP divide over Trump.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 114th; 2016issues; aliens; amnesty; border; gope; illegals; illegalsinvasion; rino; uniparty; wikileaks
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1 posted on 10/12/2016 5:29:17 AM PDT by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

Have Cruz or Rubio said anything lately?


2 posted on 10/12/2016 5:31:06 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Gamecock

Confusing headline... Trump isn’t for amnesty, as I understand him.


3 posted on 10/12/2016 5:31:41 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: Mercat

Rubio said he won’t take back his endorsement, but he won’t campaign for him. He said he wishes there was a better candidate than Trump.


4 posted on 10/12/2016 5:34:07 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Gamecock
Hillary is against a national border wall, but she has a great wall around her estate.


5 posted on 10/12/2016 5:34:57 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TakebackGOP

Rubio said he won’t take back his endorsement, but he won’t campaign for him. He said he wishes there was a better candidate than Trump.


Rubio is up 7 points and doing ZERO to help Trump in FL. No chance I vote for Marco Amnestio.


6 posted on 10/12/2016 5:37:17 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Travis McGee

7 posted on 10/12/2016 5:38:40 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Gamecock

This probably also debunks the myth that the Clintons would have least liked to have faced Rubio in the general. If he had been the nominee, Hillary and Bill probably would have had big manure eating grins on their faces as they know many conservatives would have stayed home to begin with and he’d be done by now with a few more tricks up their collective sleeve.


8 posted on 10/12/2016 5:40:45 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Mercat

Of course, but Cruz and Rubio don’t control the old media. The old media is assassinating Trump, just as they would any opponent of the Clinton Crime ring. Cruz and Rubio would have suffered the same fate.


9 posted on 10/12/2016 5:42:12 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Gamecock

In the next election, they’ll have the nominating process buttoned down so there can only be two corporate bought, globalist, free trade, cheap labor candidates running, and they can go back to pretending they’re two different Parties.


10 posted on 10/12/2016 5:43:14 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Mercat

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/10/11/ted-cruz-i-still-support-donald-trump.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl


11 posted on 10/12/2016 5:46:50 AM PDT by nitzy
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To: Gamecock

Shocking!


12 posted on 10/12/2016 5:48:19 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 16 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: Gamecock

Oh I am soooo surprised


13 posted on 10/12/2016 5:48:37 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Mercat

“have Cruz or Rubio said anything lately”

I think both walked up to the precipice this weekend but decided it wise not to fling themselves off the cliff. Five weeks is still a lot of time for DJT to pull off the biggest comeback stunner in history. If they were going to stab Trump they would have done it while his back was turned this weekend.

The coup has failed and it’s perpeTRAITORS revealed. Trump has weathered their coordinated storm.

Three wildcards are left in this election to be played against the bitch and her uniparty hordes:

The third debate

More Wikileake bombshells (don’t believe you’ve seen the best yet)

If DJT decides to push half a billion of his money to the center of the table


14 posted on 10/12/2016 5:50:22 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: backwoods-engineer

“Confusing headline... “

Definitely.


15 posted on 10/12/2016 5:55:26 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Gamecock

They’re UniParty members which makes them traitors and sellouts of the People and America. IMHO, they should be dealt with accordingly....the good, old fashion way.


16 posted on 10/12/2016 5:58:47 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Gamecock

The American people feel helpless in view of the betrayal of their elected officials.


17 posted on 10/12/2016 6:11:29 AM PDT by Ciexyz (After eight years of Obama, I can't afford to buy nothin'.)
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To: Gamecock

How does Hillary expect to get Mexico to allow Gringos to buy property and businsses?


18 posted on 10/12/2016 6:12:59 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Hillary 2016 - We haven't hit bottom yet.)
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To: TakebackGOP

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/about/staff/

“The Club for Growth is focused on conservative economic policy, and does not take positions on social issues or on the immigration/borders debate.”

Sure they don’t. These are open borders/cheap labor weasels masquerading as conservatives.


19 posted on 10/12/2016 6:15:00 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Gamecock

Since when does Trump back amnesty?

Now they are just making things up. They realized the media will repeat anything they want them to


20 posted on 10/12/2016 6:18:30 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump is running against EVERYONE. The Democrats, The Media, and the establishment GOP)
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