Why immigration is a better issue for Trump than it was in 2020
Why immigration is a better issue for Trump than it was in 2020
- August 8, 2024
- Michael Tesler, UCI political scientist, explains in this piece for ABC News
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“The issue of immigration has fueled former President Donald Trump's dominance over the Republican Party for the past nine years. When he first ran for office, negative views of immigrants were an important factor in him winning the GOP nomination. Those views were an even stronger predictor of voting for him in the 2024 primaries.
It's no surprise, then, that immigration was the defining issue of last month's Republican National Convention. Multiple speakers criticized President Joe Biden's immigration record, often in misleading ways. Trump announced Sen. JD Vance, a fellow immigration hawk, as his running mate. A sea of "Mass Deportation Now" signs swamped the convention floor. And in his own speech, Trump called illegal immigration an "invasion that is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year" and promised the "largest deportation operation in the history of our country."
Continue reading: https://abcnews.go.com/538/immigration-issue-trump-2020/story?id=112648693
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