From NBC News:
"Before Trump announced his candidacy back in June, opinions about immigration had little influence on support for him. But after his first speech as a presidential candidate harshly criticized Mexican immigrants, voters who believed immigration was important flocked to him," wrote Michael Tesler, a University of California, Irvine political science professor who studies how race and culture shape political opinions, in a Washington Post op-ed this week.


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