are republicans just looking at al right now are feeling that that sense of being a citizen trumps, if i may say that, the sense of what you re getting right now from the republican party. and my suspicion is a lot of those people are going to feel, is this the kind of america we want, this divisiveness, toxic culture, the sense of everybody being highly partisan than ever before? these negative ads increase that partisanship. if you say something so terrible about the other side, you say they re evil, racist, either way, how are you going to be friends when you sit around the snoot? it s that perpetual campaigning keeping up our highly partisanship nature. we have to stop. we have to zop. fear can trump reason, although the emphasis on the prospect of potential crimes thousands of miles away, as you put it, after a two-week period where the president has tried to change the subject from the actual crimes because they didn t fit with his, quote-unquote, political ideology, is just a
quote, advertisement. it s not. now, we re not going to air the whole thing tonight, but here is a brief part that will give you the gist. [ bleep ] the footage taps into trump s scare tactic from the very first day he announced his run for office. immigrant crime. we should note as well studies show the general u.s. population in places with fewer undocumented immigrants tend to have higher crime rates than places where there are more undocumented immigrants. if you re interested in the facts about criminology. i want to get into this discussion with al cardenas, former senior advisor to jeb bush, he also served as chairman of florida s republican party for two terms and was the chairman of the american conservative union and delegate to the republican national convention for more than 30
we re in the midterms homestretch, and tonight both parties hitting their closing arguments. oprah preaching love and optimism at a georgia rally for democrats. trump releasing a video that stokes fears and crime. they are decrying as blatantly, quote, racist. before we go into this racial controversy, and we will, first in facts. the trump video focuses on a criminal case that looks bad for republicans. it features an immigrant convicted of murder who got into the country illegally while president bush was in office. he previously had been deported during the clinton administration. this new video lies about that history and instead blames democrats wrongly for allegedly, quote, letting him in. so far the gop is not paying any money to actually run this as a quote-unquote advertisement to reach voters. in fact, it s formatted as a 353-second video. it doesn t work as a tv aid. today some political reporters fell into trump s trap. they referred to this as a,
years. sir, your republican credentials are clearly in good order. thanks for joining me tonight. my pleasure, ari. good to be with you. good to be with you. your view of what this advertisement that is actually a video, what this video says? well, the republicans tried, frankly, a less insulting version in the 1990s in california, and look where california is today. we were we had a republican governor. we had a healthy party in california. and now, of course, it s democrat domain. i m assuming that the results of this video, the results of this kind of effort are going to result in long-term damage to my party, a shrinking of our tent, and divisiveness in america. it s just very sad for me as a hispanic republican to see this done. but more importantly, it s worrisome for me as an american