William please explain how 70% of early state GOP voters want Trump to tone down imm?
William, you sent us an alert saying Trump’s tough stand on immigration will win him the election. Yet below the article says how early state Republicans want him to tone down his immigration rhetoric. So which is it??
GOP insiders to Trump: Enough already
Trump may have the whole Republican field talking about immigration, but early-state insiders wish he would just stop.
Seven in 10 Republicans said they’ve heard more than enough about Trump’s plan, which includes a controversial call to end birthright citizenship, according to this week’s POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top operatives, activists and strategists in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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Trump’s plan calls for an end to policy that guarantees citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants. That’s one of several controversial provisions under Trump’s plan, which is particularly galling to New Hampshire GOP insiders — 85 percent of whom said the real estate mogul and current GOP front-runner’s immigration plan was harmful to the party.
Nearly two-thirds of Iowa Republicans said the same.
“He’s solidly put an anchor around the neck of our party, and we’ll sink because of it,” an Iowa Republican said of Trump.
“Enough already,” vented another Iowa Republican, who like all participants was granted anonymity in order to speak freely. “This kind of garbage only appeals to the hard core … while alienating the soft middle that we must win in order to take the presidency.”
A Granite State Republican said it was “harmful to the party, the brand and the future of our country. What’s disappointing is the speed in which other candidates follow his lead. He’s forced that to be standard operation.”
Trump’s plan has pushed the issue of birthright citizenship — which is protected by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution — to the fore of the GOP presidential debate. A number of prominent candidates, including Scott Walker and Ted Cruz, have said they support revoking that right for the children of illegal immigrants.
“Amazing how many ad hoc constitutional scholars, I mean activists, now believe this is a good policy,” snarked an Iowa Republican.
The dynamic in the GOP field suggests that the lessons of 2012 — when the GOP performed abysmally among Latino voters but vowed to make concrete improvements by 2016, have already been forgotten — several insiders said.
“Wasn’t the whole “GOP rebrand” effort of the 2012 loss supposed to address this … in the opposite direction?” said a New Hampshire Democrat who, like all participants, answered via an online survey.
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