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FightFight

(246 posts)
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 11:52 AM Oct 2024

Trump's main selling point turns toxic: Mass deportation is a polling loser

Source: salon

Trump knows that explaining what mass deportations entail would be a disaster for him
Donald Trump, who has made his entire candidacy a referendum on immigration, will not discuss his mass deportation plans in detail—not in a recent Univision town hall nor his one debate with Kamala Harris. That’s a tell.

Since those debates, Trump has only leaned deeper into mass deportations, while Harris has aggressively made her case about how she will help Latinos economically, a telling reset to reach Latino voters in the final weeks of the election.


Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/10/27/trumps-main-selling-point-turns-toxic-mass-deportation-is-a-polling-loser/



Trump vows to deport millions. Builders say it would drain their crews and drive up home costs.
While some contractors dismiss the plan as political rhetoric, many say they can’t afford to lose more people from an aging, immigrant-dependent workforce still short of nearly 400,000 people.


Trump’s proposed mass deportations could ‘decimate’ the US food supply
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Trump's main selling point turns toxic: Mass deportation is a polling loser (Original Post) FightFight Oct 2024 OP
Doesn't matter HagathaCrispy Oct 2024 #1
Who's "They" in your post? (NT) Pototan Oct 2024 #12
As soon as waves of white folk line up to take jobs harvesting crops Zambero Oct 2024 #2
They tried that in So. Cal. BidenRocks Oct 2024 #3
Florida will basically come to a standstill. Biophilic Oct 2024 #4
HArd to overcome the idea Old Crank Oct 2024 #5
The notion that the likes of Trump is by default a better choice is mind-boggling Zambero Oct 2024 #8
This f'ing idiot LilElf70 Oct 2024 #6
Isn't it past time to check Trump's properties for undocumented immigrant workers? Midnight Writer Oct 2024 #7
Good for Salon BaronChocula Oct 2024 #9
Deport Elon Musk dalton99a Oct 2024 #10
It's a horrible thing to suggest on every possible level. mwb970 Oct 2024 #11
Mass deportation, abortion, Trumps grabbing the electric fence of politics with both hands. BradBo Oct 2024 #13
He's just a BLOWHARD HighFired49 Oct 2024 #14

Zambero

(9,915 posts)
2. As soon as waves of white folk line up to take jobs harvesting crops
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 12:02 PM
Oct 2024

I'll know for certain that mass deportation is a winning issue.

BidenRocks

(2,700 posts)
3. They tried that in So. Cal.
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 01:37 PM
Oct 2024

Not many showed up and only one finished the day. End of experiment.

Old Crank

(6,608 posts)
5. HArd to overcome the idea
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 02:14 PM
Oct 2024

that about 2/3 of white males won't vote for a woman, let alone a black woman.

LilElf70

(1,348 posts)
6. This f'ing idiot
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 02:24 PM
Oct 2024

has no idea what this would do to the American economy. Tack on unbelievable high tarrifs, and yes, we will then be a 3rd world country. If it happens, all he'll say is ba bye, I'm moving overseas. My work is done here.

Midnight Writer

(25,124 posts)
7. Isn't it past time to check Trump's properties for undocumented immigrant workers?
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 02:31 PM
Oct 2024

He owns golf courses, country clubs, restaurants, hotels, apartment buildings.

I don't believe this guy is not hiring the cheapest, most vulnerable people he can find.

We've fallen a long way since the press jumped all over Jimmy Carter when he said he had "felt lust in his heart" and turned it into a major scandal.

BaronChocula

(3,968 posts)
9. Good for Salon
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 02:49 PM
Oct 2024

in turning a perceived strength into a weakness.

Progressives have really been working on becoming nimble. I'm still impressed with how the 2012 Obama campaign was able to turn Mittens into a cannibal capitalist that would eat the average worker for lunch.

mwb970

(12,058 posts)
11. It's a horrible thing to suggest on every possible level.
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 03:18 PM
Oct 2024

And thus is oh so typical of trump. What an awful person he is.

BradBo

(892 posts)
13. Mass deportation, abortion, Trumps grabbing the electric fence of politics with both hands.
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 03:58 PM
Oct 2024

HighFired49

(457 posts)
14. He's just a BLOWHARD
Sun Oct 27, 2024, 05:07 PM
Oct 2024

I think that, just like all of his other imagined "plans", the only thing that exists is his "concept of a plan". I have yet to hear him discuss a plan for anything in even sketchy ideas, much less in any detail. He's just a typical shallow, ignorant, blowhard, who couldn't "explain what mass deportation entails", because he has no idea.

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