Trump Ad Hits Democrats Over Illegal Aliens

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Lawrence Person

Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign just put out an ad hitting Democrats over crimes committed by illegal aliens:

A few thoughts:

  • Has any President ever launched a reelection ad three years before his term is up?
  • Or used it to hit members of the opposing party over a then-contentious issue?
  • Either polling or Trump’s gut tells him that this is a deeply unpopular issue for Democrats, and I think he’s right. In the current shutdown fight, Democrats have chosen illegal aliens over American citizens, and they need to pay the political price for it.
  • Rick Perry used this issue effectively in his 2010 gubernatorial reelection campaign against Democrat Bill White. In that ad, a Houston police officer talked about how her husband (another police officer) had been killed by a multi-arrested illegal alien while White, Houston’s mayor at the time, was touting Houston as a “sanctuary city.”

    • My suspicion is that Democrats will get clobbered in this fight. We’ll see…

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