Politico’s Polling Center asked voters who they would most like to see as the GOP candidate for Republican president in 2016. Donald Trump led the polls, as 19% of Republican voters favored him. Scott Walker and Ben Carson tied with 12% and Jeb Bush had 11% of the votes. Carly Fiorina had 10%, while Ted Cruz came close with 9% of the votes. The statistics were taken from 619 voters on Aug. 7-9, 2015.
A CBS poll showed that Republican voters are angry at Washington. 90% of angry Republicans disapprove of Congress, 74% think that the GOP should do more for the middle class, 87% think the economy is bad, and 88% of them are paying attention to the 2016 race. 72% were conservative, 64% held positive views of the Republican party, 98% disliked Democrats, and 96% held a negative view of Hillary Clinton.
The Republican Party candidate spoke out against Chinese and Asian markets and said that the foreign markets were dragging the U.S. market down on Monday, Aug. 24. Although Trump said that the cause of the recent U.S. and global stock market plunge was China, experts say that China’s market only adds up to 2% of the U.S. GDP.
“As I have long stated, we are so tied in with China and Asia that their markets are now taking the U.S. market down. Get smart U.S.A. Markets are crashing — all caused by poor planning and allowing China and Asia to dictate the agenda. This could get very messy! Vote Trump,” tweeted 69-year-old Trump on Monday.
Trump released his first official position paper on Sunday, Aug. 16. It was a plan to uproot illegal immigration and to reform the current legal immigration system. The plan was made of three central actions, such as creating a wall to border Mexico from the United States, enforcing stricter immigration laws, and to increase fees for companies who hire overseas workers.
In regards to the southern border wall, Trump said that he would make Mexico pay for the costs. Mexican President Pena Nieto’s spokesman said that Trump’s speech reflected “an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who’s saying it,” in an interview with Bloomberg.
The real estate mogul divulged his plans to triple the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, to end birthright citizenship, implement a nationwide e-verify system, to defund sanctuary cities, and to treat visa overstays as crimes. Trump also plans to force companies to give math and science-related jobs to the “existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrants” by increasing prevailing wage.
“I don't think they have American citizenship and if you speak to some very, very good lawyers -- and I know some will disagree, but many of them agree with me -- and you're going to find they do not have American citizenship," said Trump to FOX. Trump’s comment on ending birthright citizenship for “anchor babies” was hotly debated, as CBS cited that the right is given by the U.S. Constitution.
“Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, which reads "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside," reported CBS on Sunday, Aug. 16.
