Editor: Its not about race and fear; it is about 14 to 20,000 people storming our borders, wanting to simply walk into the United States ahead of 1 million immigrants who do it legally, every single year . . . . so who is really stoking race and fear in this case? It ain't Trump.
Trump and G.O.P. Candidates Escalate Race and Fear as Election Ploys
President Trump on Monday sharply intensified a Republican campaign to frame the midterm elections as a battle over immigration and race, issuing a dark and factually baseless warning that “unknown Middle Easterners” were marching toward the American border with Mexico.
The unsubstantiated charge marked an escalation of Mr. Trump’s efforts to stoke fears about foreigners and crime ahead of the Nov. 6 vote, as he did to great effect in the presidential race. Mr. Trump and other Republicans are insistently seeking to tie Democrats to unfettered immigration and violent crime, and in some instances this summer and fall they have attacked minority candidates in nakedly racial terms.
Mr. Trump is now railing daily in speeches
