“polling suggests Trump’s attacks on immigrants make many Republican Iowa caucusgoers more likely to support him, not less.”

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    In the days following Donald Trump’s remarks that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” the 2024 GOP frontrunner was met with a wave of Democratic and media criticism, likening his speech to Nazi rhetoric.

    In response to the Adolf Hitler comparisons, Trump has privately vowed to further amp up the volume on his extreme, anti-immigrant messaging, according to two sources who’ve spoken to him since his rally in New Hampshire last weekend.

    By Tuesday evening, Trump was back on stage in Iowa, making clear that his supposedly “great line” wasn’t going anywhere, no matter how many people slam him for spouting Hitlerite prose.

    As Trump continues to campaign on a platform of rooting out the “vermin” of his political enemies and mass-deporting the undocumented who’ve been polluting the “blood” of America, some of his high-profile allies, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), have sought to defend his comments as just words, about which liberals are being too sensitive.

    Trump has openly promised that in a second term, he will launch unprecedented, large-scale efforts to approach immigration as he would a literal “war” or “invasion.” This has included plotting for a massive deployment of U.S. troops on American soil to help seal the southern border.

    Sources close to Trump tell Rolling Stone that he has long been obsessed with spectacles of violence, bloodlust, and cruelty — which often translate easily to his preferred policy prescriptions and messaging strategy.


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