Donald Trump and Democrats Share a Complicated Relationship
Despite running for president in the Republican Party, Donald Trump and the Democrats have a pretty close, but complicated relationship.
Because, according to Latino Fox News, despite the common stereotype that Trump supporters consist mostly of conservative, blue-collar, under-educated white males, the leading GOP candidate also has a significant amount of Democrat supporters.
Alfonso Aguilar, a former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship under Bush's administration, said that, "There's some truth that there's a unique Trump coalition that's not just the conservative coalition that includes socially liberal Republicans who know that Trump is not concerned about social issues."
Aguilar stated that, apart from moderate Republicans, Trump's supporters also include middle class Democrats that think immigrants are taking away the jobs from the average American workers. He said that these supporters could care less whether the Republican presidential candidate is an extremist on the issue of immigration; it's just that they agree with his notion that immigrants are taking away their jobs.
Apart from the issue of Immigration, Trump is also against the idea of free trade market -- something that is not exclusive to Conservative supporters.
Furthermore, Democratic data firm Civis Analytics discovered that Trump gets the support of over 43 percent of registered Democrats, compared to just 29 percent of Republicans.
However, this data is not exactly all good news for him as his opponents within the GOP are using his alleged Democratic support to beat him out for the Republican nomination.
In an article by the New York Times, Trump's closest opponent Ted Cruz even suggested that he's taking ideas from Democratic advisers.
With Trump and Cruz going neck and neck in the Iowa polls, the Texas governor finally launched a direct attack to Trump and his "New York values."
Political pundits noted that this was a complete change of heart for Cruz, who repeatedly said that he will not engage in a word war with Trump.
But after the businessman-turned-politician frequently attacked his Canadian birth, Cruz finally gave in and said that it's strange that Donald is taking advice from Laurence H. Tribe -- Harvard Law professor associated with the left-wing liberal movement and a Clinton supporter. He went on to accuse that Hillary's supporters are very eager to back Donald's presidential bid.
Similarly, Breitbart News reported that Cruz thinks the Democrats are supporting Trump because they think he's the Republican candidate they can beat in the election.
Cruz also took jab at his opponent's choice of campaign song and said that Trump should change "Born in the U.S.A." to "New York, New York," due to the fact that Trump embodied New York values.
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