Amnesty Watch

Today: New paper analyzes the deceptions in Marco Rubio's national ad campaign to push his amnesty bill -- His poll numbers already were dropping with the conservatives he hoped would be his 2016 base.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is the center of both Democratic and Republican open-borders enthusiasts' hopes for passing the massive S.744 bill for amnesty and a doubling of future legal immigration.

Both Parties have put him forward as something of the celebrity pitch man on TV and radio shows and now a huge ad campaign in which he touts his Gang of Eight bill as "conservative" reform.

But the ads just aren't true.

John Feere at the Center for Immigration Studies has just put out a backgrounder on RUBIO'S DECEPTIVE AMNESTY AD.Feere examines virtually every phrase in the ad and compares them with reality.

On the report's page, you will see an imag e of the ad which you can watch for yourself. You can tell that his script includes every phrase that pollsters found resonates with conservatives -- and Americans in general. But it is rather comical listening to him string them all together, even though his bill backs up hardly any of them.

Rubio has been assigned the task of convincing conservative voters to persuade Republican Senators to vote for the amnesty bill.

Doing so makes Rubio extremely popular with the billionaires who tend to run the national Republican Party.

But what does it do with his popularity among the grassroots?

Indications that Rubio hurting Rubio

A.J. Delgado of Breitbart.com has done some interesting comparisons of the latest results from the firm, Public Policy Polling, and the results of its survey back in February.

Just like with fellow Gang member, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rubio has been losing voter support since details of the amnesty bill became public.
When asked for their preferred GOP candidate, only 17% of "very conservative" respondents favored Rubio, while only 18% of "somewhat conservative" respondents favored Rubio.
This is a steep decline from the same poll's findings in April, when Rubio's support was 26% among the "very conservative" and 22% among the "somewhat conservative."


The earlier survey was conducted in late March before the Gang of Eight amnesty bill was released and the public finally began to learn what is in it and that the innards didn't match the platitudes they had been hearing from the Gang.

The latest survey was conducted between May 6th and 9th.

National Republican Party leaders and consultants have claimed that Rubio would help the Party pick up more support from Hispanic voters by championing the a mnesty bill. But Delgado writes:
Notably, Rubio's support among Hispanics also appears to have decreased following the unveiling of the "Gang of 8" bill. The previous poll demonstrated 39% of Hispanics had a favorable view of Rubio, while the latest poll demonstrates that number has decreased to 34%.

In many ways, the person undermining Rubio's ad credibility more than anybody is Rubio.
Even as his ads have been running making great claims about border security and tough enforcement, he has written op-eds and made press statements about his concerns that the bill doesn't really guarantee border security, for example.

The Washington Times today revealed that it has obtained a list that Rubio is circulating among Republican Senators of a couple dozen criticisms of the bill that he thinks may keep the bill from passing.

It doesn't sound like Rubio the ad pitch man is even believed by Senator Rubio himself.
While the Times indicates that Rubio thinks the criticisms may warrant amendments, the Judiciary Committee has already shot down efforts to respond to many of the criticism during its first few days of markup.






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