How anti-immigrant attitudes are fueling support for Donald Trump
How anti-immigrant attitudes are fueling support for Donald Trump
- November 24, 2015
- An op-ed by Michael Tesler, political science professor, is featured in The Washington Post Nov. 24, 2015
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From The Washington Post:
Michael Tesler, assistant professor of political science at UC Irvine [writes] … Political
commentators have asserted for months that Donald Trump’s dominance of the Republican
presidential field is fueled by his anti-immigrant rhetoric. … This is a very plausible
hypothesis, but one with little comprehensive evidence to date. Now, thanks to a collection
of survey data from YouGov, we can show how, and how much, voters’ concern about immigration
has helped Trump.
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/24/how-anti-immigrant-attitudes-are-fueling-support-for-donald-trump/.
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