President Trump has weathered one week after another of controversy, missteps and turmoil. None quite compares with what he experienced with the storm over his policy to separate migrant children from their parents. It was a trifecta of ineptitude: a policy hash, a political debacle and the most dramatic personal […] Read more »
Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation
… After a firestorm of protest, Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday ending the family separation policy. But it’s not clear how much damage to his popularity and credibility has already been done, particularly among white evangelical Protestants. This group has been a bedrock of Trump’s base since he […] Read more »
Separated immigrant children move people’s hearts, but will it move their votes?
… In the latest CNN poll, 67% of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s administration’s policy that resulted in a “significant increase in the number of young children who have been separated from their parents at the border and placed in government facilities.” The policy’s unpopularity surely played a role […] Read more »
The Wrong Fight at the Wrong Time for the GOP
You need to hand it to President Donald Trump, his entire administration and his party. It takes more than a little chutzpah to act in a way that seems callous to the concerns of children. … If reports are correct that Trump thought the “zero tolerance” policy would help him […] Read more »
The GOP’s ‘Utterly Dysfunctional’ Strategy of Babying Its Base
With his policy of systematically separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, Donald Trump finally extended his racially infused economic nationalism to a point that a critical mass of elected Republicans could not follow. … With several polls this week showing that roughly two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump’s […] Read more »
UT/TT Poll: Most Texas voters oppose family separation at the border, with greater support among men and Republicans
Most Texas voters oppose separating children and parents apprehended while trying to enter the country illegally, but there are gaping partisan and gender differences in the electorate, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. CONT. Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune Read more »