President Donald Trump closed this campaign by warning of the grave danger people faced from criminal and violent immigrants and from the Democratic leaders who supported open borders and sanctuary cities. We think you will find that when the votes are all counted, Donald Trump and the GOP will have suffered a major defeat in the off-year elections. …
To understand why President Trump and the GOP closed on immigration, you need to understand how Trump came to dominate the GOP and what groups form his GOP base. Donald Trump won the GOP primaries in 2016 by first building a base among those who supported the Tea Party movement and then forging an almost holy pact with Evangelicals to create a socially conservative U.S. Supreme Court. The Tea Party are the most anti-President Obama, Obamacare, and immigration, and they are hostile to multiculturalism. Trump locked up the Tea Party base in the primaries by launching his presidential campaign with attacks on Mexican rapists. His Muslim ban, separation of immigrant children and parents, and sending troops to the border to stop the caravan allowed Trump to own the fight against immigration. It is first and foremost a fight against a more pluralistic, diverse, foreign and multi-cultural America. CONT. – pdf
Stanley Greenberg, Greenberg Research & Democracy Corps
