On Immigration Did Rubio and Trump Fudge Truths at the CNBC Debate?

By Published on November 1, 2015

Pundits trying to explain Donald Trump’s success frequently discount the importance of immigration. Wednesday night’s debate performance suggests even Trump doesn’t get it.

I hesitate to predict anything about his polling, since smarter people than me have proven embarrassingly wrong. But by seeming to revert to the billionaire consensus that we need to increase immigration, Trump might have sowed seeds of doubt in some of his supporters. Sure, he’ll explain away his anti-worker comments, but that’s what politicians do, not anti-politicians like Trump.

What’s more, Trump allowed Marco Rubio — Rubio, for Pete’s sake — to get to his right on immigration, even as Rubio misrepresented his own position.

Read the article “On Immigration Did Rubio and Trump Fudge Truths at the CNBC Debate?” on nationalreview.com.

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