Santorum makes personal attacks and speaks in generalities instead of answering Trump's criticism. People are sick of propaganda, what ordinary voters dislike and want to end. What Trump says is true. Curious that candidates appeal to wealthy brothers, instead of voters and taxpayers. Isn't that the problem in the White House and Congress, an elite making policy contrary to what voters want? If politicians focused on building a wall to keep out unscreened immigrants they would show concern for citizens instead of themselves.
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Rick Santorum, the former senator and two-time presidential candidate, also made a passionate plea for walling out Mr. Trump.
“If you’re a United States senator, if you’re a governor, if you’re a woman who ran a Fortune 500 company, if you just comb your hair like everyone else, you need this wall,” he vented to reporters recently. “Because without it, this rich guy is just going to ride an escalator to the White House and set back decades of hard-won progress made by the Republican Party.”
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Weary of the wealthy businessman’s willingness to shamelessly say anything to draw attention to him and his campaign, Mr. Trump’s challengers say he has left them no choice but to attempt this drastic and expensive step.
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Mr. Trump’s comments - that Mexican immigrants are “rapists” and “killers” – have drawn attention to the issue of immigration overhaul, a question Republicans have struggled with for years, trying to balance a hard-line stance with the need to appeal to Hispanics. By turning their attention to building a wall that would keep out Mr. Trump, the GOP candidates are hoping to make a strong statement about their belief in inclusion without having to state whether they agree with Mr. Trump’s views.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150718/NEWS/150717341
Column: GOP begs Kochs to build wall to keep Trump out
By Philip Maddocks
Posted Jul. 18, 2015 at 8:25 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
