‘People want somebody who is willing to confront the opposition in plain language’
For good or bad, billionaire Donald Trump has cannonballed into the pool of the 2016 GOP presidential candidates and several conservatives are waiting for the waves to settle down before deciding on the benefits, or lack thereof.
Some, like legendary conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, welcome Trump with open arms, praising his controversial remarks on immigration.
Others say they need to know more first.
“I think what he’s saying is extremely helpful, and it’s mostly true,” Schlafly, author of “Who Killed the American Family?” told WND in an interview. She pointed to the recent murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco by an illegal Mexican alien who had been deported five times.
That murder came just over two weeks after Trump, in his presidential announcement, said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with [them]. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., agrees current events have vindicated Trump.
“With every news cycle, Donald Trump is being proven right about problems associated with illegal aliens,” she declared. “The Democratic and Republican ruling class in Washington is petrified their false claim that massive Third-World immigration is good for America is unraveling.”
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