In his wildest dreams Donald Trump could not have imagined his campaign going this well. There is just no way. As I write this, Trump continues to dominate the GOP field and is also beginning to overtake his Democrat rivals in the most recent polling. (Leading Clinton by 5 in Iowa and trailing her by just 1 in New Hampshire.)
While I’ve never been on
the Trump bandwagon (though I have appreciated some of what he has said), I am
beginning to grow very excited about the possibility that he is changing the
national conversation on certain issues -- illegal immigration being the most
prominent of these issues.
Just last week we
brought you the news that 59% of Americans agreed with Trump on deporting all
illegal aliens; this week we have even more surprising news.
The latest poll out from
YouGov finds that 64%
of Americans support building a fence along our border with Mexico! 64%!
Those are landslide
numbers, folks. That is a vast majority of the population. In fact only about
27% of Americans believe that we should NOT build the fence.
The idea of a border
fence is more popular than unpopular with every single subgroup in the polling.
More Democrats support
the idea than oppose, more women support than oppose, more African-Americans
support than oppose, and here’s the clincher… even among Hispanics – more
support the building of a border fence than oppose. 49% of Hispanics want to
see the USA build a fence along the border with Mexico and only 38% of
Hispanics are opposed to the fence.
This is what we call a
“winning issue” in political parlance, and it may very well be all because of
Donald Trump.
Wow. Those are words I
never imagined myself saying.
http://eaglerising.com/23390/donald-trump-on-a-roll-64-of-americans-want-to-build-a-fence-on-mexican-border/
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