A plurality of potential Iowa Republican caucusgoers say former President Donald Trump’s recent comment that illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” makes them more likely to support him, a new poll shows.
A Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll found that 42% said the statement made them more likely to join Trump, while 28% said the rant made them less likely to back the 77-year-old.
Another 29% said the comment “didn’t matter” and 2% weren’t sure.
Trump made the remarks to supporters at a Dec. 16 rally in Durham, New Hampshire, while wildly inflating the number of illegal immigrants who have entered the United States since President Biden took office.
“When they allow it, I think the real number is 15 to 16 million people in our country, when they do, we will have a lot of work to do,” the 45th president said. “They are poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done.”
A plurality of Iowa Republican caucusgoers say former President Donald Trump’s comment about illegal immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” makes them more likely to vote for him. AP At a Dec. 16 rally in Durham, NH, Trump made these comments to his supporters while wildly inflating the number of illegal immigrants who have entered the United States since President Biden took office. fake images
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have since denounced the rhetoric, even as Trump redoubled his efforts days later at a rally in Waterloo, Iowa.
“I do not believe, as the former president said again yesterday, that immigrants are contaminating our blood,” Biden responded in a speech Wednesday at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee. “The economy and our nation are stronger when we harness the full range of talent in this nation.”
Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview that same night with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that people have “rightly” found Trump’s words “similar to the language” of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
“I do not believe, as the former president said again yesterday, that immigrants are contaminating our blood,” President Biden responded in a speech on Wednesday. AP
Hitler’s 1925 autobiography-manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” talks about the “poison” of “foreign blood” being introduced into Germany’s “national organism,” which he claimed would dilute the “purity” of Germany. the Aryan race.
Trump has since said he “never read ‘Mein Kampf’” and argued that his comments were made “in a very different way,” adding that illegal immigration brought crime and disease across the border.
“I don’t know what this means with blood. I know people try to make historical allusions. I don’t know if that’s what he meant,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is likely the second presidential choice of Iowa Republican voters, according to the Des Moines Register/NBC/Mediacom poll.
“I don’t know what this means with blood. I know people try to make historical allusions. I don’t know if that’s what he meant,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. fake images
“We need a candidate who is able to defend Biden’s failures without getting involved, intervening or doing things that divert attention,” he said. he told Fox News.
“Because now the media focuses on ‘What did he mean by that?’ instead of focusing on why Biden is failing.”
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who is running third behind DeSantis in Iowa, said the words were “more chaos and distractions that we’re trying to get rid of.”
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who is running third behind DeSantis in Iowa, said the words were “more chaos and distractions that we’re trying to get rid of.” fake images
“We need to secure the border; we need to make sure we start with catch and deport instead of catch and release,” Haley told Fox News. “All of those things we have to do, and we can do them without the rhetoric.”
“Let’s fix the border without saying things that make people angry,” he added.
Other Republicans mentioned family members who came to the United States legally as immigrants, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose wife served in the Trump administration.
The Iowa poll also found that 43% of Republican caucusgoers were more likely to vote for Trump after he said it is necessary to root out “radical left-wing thugs who live like vermin” in the United States. REUTERS
“I don’t think it bothered him when he appointed Elaine Chao as transportation secretary,” McConnell said of his wife, who was born in Taiwan and became a naturalized U.S. citizen as a teenager.
The Iowa poll also found that 43% of Republican caucusgoers were more likely to vote for Trump after he said it is necessary to root out “radical left-wing thugs who live like vermin” in the United States, and the 50% were more likely to support him after he pledged to authorize “sweeping raids, giant camps and mass deportations” to crack down on illegal immigration.
The poll, which was conducted Dec. 2-7, reached 502 likely Iowa Republican caucus attendees and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
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