{"id":112998,"date":"2024-10-11T17:55:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112998"},"modified":"2024-10-11T17:55:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:55:44","slug":"donald-trump-is-betting-that-voters-care-more-about-immigration-than-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112998","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is betting that voters care more about immigration than the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z5aqf000l1poxdjmq7gf2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            At last month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/10\/politics\/debate-takeaways-trump-harris\/index.html\">presidential debate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">Donald Trump<\/a> claimed violent migrant gangs were \u201ctaking over\u201d Aurora, Colorado, amplifying and exaggerating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/11\/politics\/colorado-apartment-complex-battleground-immigration\/index.html\">a disputed rumor<\/a> his supporters had spread across the internet in the days leading up to his nationally televised face-off with Kamala Harris.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj00093b6mh8qqm6vp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Now, the former president is set to hold a rally in Aurora, thrusting this midsize Mountain West city into the spotlight once again,\u00a0along with the topic Trump hopes will decide\u00a0this race: immigration.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000a3b6mo3bl63tb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump has all but staked his presidential campaign on convincing Americans that closing the border and kicking out those\u00a0who illegally crossed it are the most pressing priorities for the\u00a0country. It\u2019s a pitch he has delivered with increasingly dark and offensive rhetoric that leans into stereotypes of foreigners from poorer countries.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000b3b6mgnik75t0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He has claimed \u2013 over the repeated objections of state and local leaders, including from his own party \u2013 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/11\/politics\/video\/springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants-pets-jimenez-pkg-ac360-digvid\">Haitian migrants living in Springfield, Ohio<\/a>, are \u201ceating the pets\u201d of the local residents. To the residents in a tiny Wisconsin town, he warned against what people from all over the world were \u201cdoing to the fabric, to the guts of our country.\u201d This week, Trump espoused nativist arguments about some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/07\/politics\/trump-undocumented-immigrants-bad-genes\/index.html\">immigrants having \u201cbad genes,\u201d<\/a> which cause them to commit crimes.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000c3b6m5milq2i2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It\u2019s a closing argument, though, that carries considerable risk. A steady stream of polls throughout the year and leading up to the final weeks of the presidential race have repeatedly affirmed that the economy is the issue of greatest concern to the most number of voters. In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/24\/politics\/polls-trump-harris-presidential-election\/index.html\">CNN poll conducted by SSRS<\/a>, more than 4 in 10 likely voters said the economy was the most important issue as they chose a candidate to lead the country. Only 12% said immigration ranked highest for them.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000d3b6m54x9nwic@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Against this reality, Trump\u2019s own campaign appears to have altered its approach to persuading the electorate in key battleground states by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/06\/politics\/campaign-advertising-tv-harris-trump\/index.html\">turning away from their candidate\u2019s favored message<\/a>. In August, the Trump campaign spent about $15.5 million on television ads centered on immigration. For the next month, though, such ads about immigration were almost nonexistent\u00a0on the airwaves.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000e3b6mz0zglieq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Meanwhile, the campaign shifted even more ad dollars to messaging about the economy, accounting for about 77% of its broadcast advertising spending in September.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000f3b6m6ncbny0r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the face of this polling, though, Trump is betting on his gut, telling\u00a0a Wisconsin crowd on Sunday, \u201cI really don\u2019t agree\u201d that the economy will decide the election.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000g3b6mubpzoihp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI know they do all these polls,\u00a0and the polls say it\u2019s the economy,\u00a0and the polls say very strongly it\u2019s inflation,\u00a0and I can understand it a little bit,\u201d Trump said. \u201cTo me,\u00a0it\u2019s the horrible people that we\u2019re allowing into our country that are destroying our country. And it\u2019s the hardest problem to solve too.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000i3b6mf3u0k1v8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Illegal immigration is certainly comfortable terrain for Trump. He launched his first White House bid in 2015, railing against Mexican \u201cdrugs,\u201d \u201ccrime\u201d and \u201crapists\u201d entering the country. He then centered his campaign on a promise to \u201cbuild the wall\u201d at the southern border and make Mexico pay for it, something he failed to fulfill as president.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000j3b6mbhkj3cr4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Still, the 458 miles of new and replacement wall his administration built along the US-Mexico divide serve as a physical &#8211; yet unfinished &#8211; reminder of his long-standing fixation with keeping\u00a0outsiders from entering the country\u00a0illegally.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000k3b6m8jci5l2c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump regularly laments that as an incumbent in 2020,\u00a0he could no longer galvanize support around the issue he believed won him the White House the first time. In his own retelling \u2013 which he often shares with supporters at rallies \u2013\u00a0\u201cI wanted to talk about the border. My people said, \u2018Sir, nobody wants to talk about the border anymore.\u2019\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000l3b6mecac6a9m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That is no longer the case as Trump seeks the Oval Office once again. The former president has resurfaced many of his promises from eight years ago, including a pledge to finish the wall and another to initiate the largest mass deportation in American history by deputizing local and state law enforcement to remove millions of undocumented people across the country.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000m3b6mefuxa0wk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It\u2019s an issue he brings up\u00a0in most public appearances \u2013 even at events that are purportedly centered on other topics. Speeches advertised as remarks on the economy, crime or inflation often begin and end with extended riffs on his favorite topic, at times overshadowing the message he was on hand to deliver.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000n3b6m1mokfgbo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For example, during\u00a0a visit to Savannah, Georgia, that his campaign billed as \u201cremarks on the tax code and US manufacturing,\u201d Trump said the word \u201cborder\u201d 29 times, outpacing mentions of \u201cmanufacturing.\u201d\u00a0In Tucson, Arizona, Trump stood in front of signage that said \u201cMake Housing Affordable Again\u201d but spent more time warning against migrants \u201ctaking Hispanic jobs, taking African American jobs, taking people that have been here a long time.\u201d The first reference to \u201chousing\u201d came 30 minutes into his speech.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000o3b6mifx7htmm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump has at times publicly panned his advisers for attempting to put such guardrails on his remarks.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000p3b6mtte8s4xd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe\u2019re doing this as an intellectual speech. We\u2019re all intellectuals today,\u201d Trump said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/14\/politics\/video\/trump-economic-speech-mark-kelly-src-digvid\">mocking tone in August in Asheville, North Carolina<\/a>, where he was supposed to speak about the economy. \u201cThey say it\u2019s the most important subject. I think crime is right there. I think the border is right there, personally.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000q3b6mmzjn8cgm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s campaign pointed out that he has also held events centered on immigration, including a recent visit to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, that featured small-town Americans whose lives were upended by violent acts committed by undocumented individuals.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000r3b6mokt2yj0i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It also argued that immigration remains a top issues for many voters. A recent Gallup poll found 72% of Americans saying\u00a0it was an \u201cextremely\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d important topic \u2013\u00a0the highest point in the organization\u2019s survey going back two decades. However, much of that is driven by Republicans, 63% of whom said the issue was\u00a0\u201cextremely\u201d important to their choice in November.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000s3b6mb120gds1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That poll also showed independents split between Trump and Harris\u00a0over who would handle the issue better.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000t3b6ma5hxzmxf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris has lately sought to cut into Trump\u2019s perceived strength on the issue. In late September, she made her first visit to the US border as a presidential candidate. In a town hall Thursday hosted by Univision, she accused Trump of tanking a bipartisan border security bill earlier this year, asserting he wanted \u201crun on a problem.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000u3b6mormsrsx7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cDonald Trump found out about that bill, realized it would be the solution, and told them not to put in on the floor for a vote because he would prefer to run on a problem, instead of fixing a problem,\u201d Harris said. \u201cReal leadership is about solving problems on behalf of the people.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000w3b6m1qhfdbxp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There should be no misconceptions about Trump\u2019s\u00a0appearance in Aurora on Friday, which his campaign announced in a press release saying,\u00a0\u201cKamala\u2019s border bloodbath has made every state a border state.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000x3b6mcfwztsn6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            How Aurora became a flashpoint in the race is illustrative of the speed at which online\u00a0right-wing fixations enter the mainstream. Trump\u2019s supporters seized footage from an apartment complex in the city that captured men wielding guns walking down hallways, in one case kicking open a door, followed by several women and small children.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000y3b6mpeu4f9z4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The images rapidly spread around social media, with Trump supporters claiming they depicted Venezuelan gangs taking over an apartment complex. The building\u2019s owner appeared to verify that description, but the city said the substandard housing conditions maintained by the landlord were the issue, not migrants. Meanwhile, local police have encountered some gang activity tied to a Venezuelan group, but rejected theories that the gang has taken over any buildings in the city.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj000z3b6miniad3fq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That didn\u2019t stop Trump, though, from seizing on the episode and escalating the falsehoods by claiming that Venezuelan gangs were taking over swathes of Colorado. He then foreshadowed a violent intervention if he is elected.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj00103b6m4gzyic65@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou know, getting them out will be a bloody story,\u201d he told supporters at a Wisconsin rally last month.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj00113b6m7ppa13qi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After Trump mentioned Aurora in the debate, the city\u2019s mayor\u00a0Mike Coffman, a Republican former congressman, said in a statement that the \u201coverstated claims fueled by social media and through select news organizations are simply not true.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj00123b6mep096wlb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump had similarly planned a visit to Springfield, Ohio \u2013 another city besieged by right-wing conspiracy\u00a0theories about its migrant population \u2013 but backtracked after local authorities warned of the damage it would do to the community.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj00133b6m3d5g38dx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Coffman, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/aurora-mayor-welcomes-donald-trump-colorado-visit-other-leaders-unnecessary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told a local Colorado news outlet<\/a>\u00a0that he welcomed Trump\u2019s visit.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z6gxj00143b6mft7bv1c6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf he comes here, I see it as an opportunity to show him the city,\u201d he said, \u201cand break the narrative that this city is out of control when it comes to Venezuelan gangs.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph_contributors inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_contributors\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23z5cu800003b6mzlu65zda@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s David Wright,\u00a0Caitlin Stephen Hu, Rafael Romo and Belisa Morillo contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/11\/politics\/trump-immigration-economy\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 At last month\u2019s presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed violent migrant gangs were \u201ctaking over\u201d Aurora, Colorado, amplifying and exaggerating a disputed rumor his supporters had spread across the &hellip; 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