GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump wouldn’t really be abandoning Republican voters by shifting away from mass deportation ― he would be joining them. Trump’s backers are more prone than the rest of the nation to anti-immigration sentiment, but even they have never been an entirely solid bloc. According to a March poll, about three-quarters of all voters, including 47 percent of Trump’s primary supporters believed that undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country legally. It’s too soon to tell how Trump’s latest statements on immigration will affect his standing in the race. But the public’s views of the issues are, by some measures, as malleable and as contradictory as Trump’s have proved to be.

Source: Huffington Post August 26, 2016 16:31 UTC