A majority of likely members of the Iowa Republican caucus say former President Donald Trump’s recent comments that illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” make them more likely to support him, a new poll shows.
A Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll found 42% said the remarks made them more likely to caucus for Trump, while 28% said the rant made them less likely to support the 77-year-old.
Another 29% said the review was “not important,” and 2% weren’t sure.
Trump made the remarks to supporters at a Dec. 16 rally in Durham, NH, while touting the number of illegal immigrants who have entered the US since President Biden took office.
“When they allow, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country, when they do that, we’ve got a lot of work to do,” the 45th president said. “They are poisoning the blood of our country. That is what they have done.”
A majority of Iowa Republican caucus members said former President Donald Trump’s comments about illegal immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” made it more likely they would vote for him. AP At a Dec. 16 rally in Durham, NH, Trump made the remarks to supporters, while raising the number of illegal immigrants who have entered the US since President Biden took office. Getty Images
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have since denounced the rhetoric — though Trump doubled down days later at a Waterloo, Iowa, rally.
“I don’t believe, as the former president said yesterday, that immigrants pollute our blood,” Biden responded in a speech Wednesday at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee. “Our economy and our country are stronger when we take advantage of the various talents in this country.”
Vice President Kamala Harris said in a late-night interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that “real” people found Trump’s words “similar to the language” of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
“I do not believe, as the former president said yesterday, that immigrants pollute our blood,” President Biden responded in a speech Wednesday. AP
Hitler’s 1925 autobiographical manifesto “Mein Kampf” spoke of the “poison” of “foreign blood” being introduced into Germany’s “national body”, which he said would dilute the “purity” of the Aryan race.
Trump has since said he “never read ‘Mein Kampf'” and argued that his comments were made “in a much different way,” adding that illegal immigration brings crime and disease across borders.
“I don’t know what that means with blood stuff. 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 Iowa Republican voters’ second choice for president, according to a Des Moines Register/NBC/Mediacom poll.
“I don’t know what that means with blood stuff. I know people try to make historical allusions. I don’t know if that’s what he meant,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said. Getty Images
“We need a nominee who will be able to press the case against Biden’s failure without getting involved, and stepping into it, or doing things that will distract,” he told Fox News.
“Because now the media is focused on, ‘What does he mean by that?’ instead of focusing on why Biden failed.”
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who ran third behind DeSantis in Iowa, said the remarks were “more of the chaos and distraction that we’re trying to get rid of.”
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who ran third behind DeSantis in Iowa, said the remarks were “more of the chaos and distraction that we’re trying to get rid of.” Getty Images
“We need to secure the border; we need to make sure that we start arrest-and-deport instead of arrest-and-release,” Haley told Fox News. “All those things we have to do – and we can do them without rhetoric.”
“Let’s fix the boundaries without saying things that will make people angry,” he added.
Other Republicans have cited family members who came to the U.S. 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 GOP caucus members were more likely to vote for Trump after he said “radical left-wing thugs living like lice” in the US needed to be eradicated. Reuters
“I don’t think I bothered him when he appointed Elaine Chao as transportation secretary,” McConnell said of his wife, who was born in Taiwan and became a naturalized US citizen as a teenager.
The Iowa poll also found that 43% of GOP caucus members were more likely to vote for Trump after he said “radical left-wing thugs living like lice” in the US needed to be eradicated, and 50% more likely to support him after he vowed to allow “sweep raids, giant camps, and mass deportations” to crack down on illegal immigration.
The poll, conducted Dec. 2-7, reached 502 likely Iowa GOP caucus attendees and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
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