MEDIA: GOP elites want to turn from Trump. Will the base let them?

[John D Groenveld]

Via Brave,
<URL:https://search.brave.com/news?q=%22Donald+Trump%22+immigration>
see Los Angeles Times' Melanie Mason on whether Kellyanne Conway
worries that Ken Griffin will allow Ron DeSantis to run to Donald
Trump's right on the National Question:
<URL:https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-18/gop-elites-want-to-turn-from-trump-will-the-base-let-them>
| In 2012, after two consecutive bruising presidential losses, party
| stalwarts decided it was necessary to remake Republicans' image. Fox
| News' Sean Hannity said he "evolved" in his thinking on immigration
| and endorsed a pathway to citizenship. The Republican National
| Committee commissioned what was widely called an autopsy, which
| prescribed softening stances on social issues and promoted
| immigration reform as a way to attract voters of color, young people
| and women.
|
| The Republican grassroots felt differently. Conservative shock jock
| Rush Limbaugh railed against the document. Four years later, the
| party backed a candidate whose hard-line immigration stance could be
| summed up with the phrase, "Build the Wall."

Besides DeSantis, what other MAGA candidate might campaign as a tribune
for legacy American proles by promising to make immigration "safe, legal
and rare"?

John
groe...@acm.org
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