Month: August 2016

Majority Say Immigrants Are Not a Problem

Buck Banks

71%

Of respondents to a new Pew Research Center poll say undocumented immigrants living in the United States mostly fill jobs citizens do not want, while just 24% say they mostly take jobs citizens want. About three-quarters of Americans (76%) say undocumented immigrants are “as honest and hard-working” as U.S. citizens, while 67% say they are no more likely than U.S. citizens to commit serious crimes.

Coulter ‘Worships’ Trump, But Wants to Shoot Him

Buck Banks

My worship for him is like the people of North Korea worship Dear Leader — blind loyalty. Once he gave that Mexican rapist speech, I’ll walk across glass for him. That’s basically it. Unlike the crazy Cruz supporters, I’ll criticize him, and I have, but it’s all minor stylistic stuff. We all want to shoot him at various times.

— Ann Coulter, quoted by Bloomberg’s Josh Green. on her support of Donald Trump.

Conway: Trump Is Actually Winning the Campaign

Buck Banks

Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election. It’s because it’s become socially desirable, if you’re a college educated person in the United States of America, to say that you’re against Donald Trump.

— Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway telling the UK’s Channel 4 that Donald Trump is actually winning the election, but every poll is wrong because Trump voters are undercover.

Maybe Hillary Doesn’t Understand ‘Conflict of Interest’

Buck Banks

85

“Of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs… Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million,” AP reports.