Graham on Trump: ‘I’ll beat his brains out’ in South Carolina

Trump’s critics said this is simplistic and in some ways incorrect. Angry about illegal immigration. Graham challenged Trump, saying, “I’ll beat his brains out” in South Carolina. One panelist asked the others in the room “how many” of them had not changed their positions on anything over the past 15 years.

Luntz’s bottom line: Trump’s support is “absolutely real“, committed, and probably durable, despite intense Republican opposition to the businessman’s style, lack of political experience and virulent attacks on critics.

When we are this far away from the official start of the primary election season, we can usually just say, “It’s still early days”.

“This isn’t Perot. This is so much stronger than Perot”, added Luntz, who ran the focus group.

Trump is hardly my first choice, but he is doing a lot of good right now, including showing the value of confidently presenting your ideas and how “making America great again” is a message that still strongly resonates with voters. They mentioned “leader” more often than any other term.

Remembering the 1999 parade, Trump said, “We passed Trump Towers, 69 stories”.

During an intense focus group Monday, pollster Frank Luntz grilled Donald Trump fans about their avid support for The Donald.

But if you’ve built an entire political movement around the notion that none of that is true, then at some point you better be willing to take major, dramatic action.

At the end of the session, the vast majority said they liked Trump more than when they walked in.

“I don’t know. There’s something about Washington“. I find him offensive. This means offering clear, effective policy options that address the interests of the American people while simultaneously engaging foreign powers to help alleviate the issues driving illegal immigration. “I want to see how he’s going to do it”. Charles Krauthammer writes that despite its popularity with the base, Trump’s immigration policy “would all be merely ridiculous if it weren’t morally obscene”, warning that he may be dooming the party’s chances in 2016.

“His approach to describing immigrants are hurting [Republicans] with Hispanics”.

Least likely to raise the voters’ concerns about Trump: not being a religious conservative.

Gathered in a conference room near Washington, D.C., Trump backers gave a variety of reasons for their intense support. Skepticism of immigrants and immigration tends to be more concentrated among older voters and working class voters, and old working class people are inclined to be anxious about things like government funding for retirement programs and health care programs.

“I don’t see anything on here that is a complete, “Holy crap, I can not vote for this guy” complaint”, said one man. When it comes to money in politics, Trump sounds more Bernie Sanders than Mitt Romney. “Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots”. At -7%, Ted Cruz and Rick Perry are tied for the second-worst performance, but they are also less familiar to the population in question.

Trump told a meeting of conservative activists previous year that the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants would never vote Republican.

Trump also mocked Jeb Bush on Twitter Tuesday after the former Florida governor found himself in a deeper mess in trying to explain his “anchor babies” comment as “frankly, more related to Asian people”. Marco Rubio, while 41 percent are familiar with Perry.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen.