Donald Trump Immigration Strategies

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Strategies used by Donald trump for his election campaign to talk about immigration.

1. INTRODUCTION:
I hope my literature will help to understand the strategies which are used by politicians to address/ignore issues which are either owned by a party or is an issue of salience from the general public or is a not a clear-cut overlap. and lessen the effect of any election’s candidate campaign.
In this review, I shall dwell into the different strategies Donald Trump uses to talk about issues like immigration. The main body of my review is divided into three paragraphs: first, second and third. In the first paragraph, I critically assess the environment the voters are surrounded by have an effect on how voters react to candidates. In the second …show more content…

56). We can witness this phenomena in political campaigns where the voters obtain messages about the campaign from different sources. So, these very anti-immigration messages can either support the voters belief that US has a lot of illegal immigrants and the government should do something about it or make the voters feel that immigrants are not as bad as the media or politicians portray them to be. So, the biggest challenge for Donald Trump is to spread his message on immigration through any media source in such a way that it either strengthens the voter’s prior information about immigration or make them support strict immigration reform. This challenge, however, may not matter much because the voters are getting a constant exposure to news about immigration since he is always addressing the issue and there are always crime-related news in mainstream American media. So, for majority of the voters, who do not know the exact number of crimes and harm caused by illegal immigrants in the US, somehow make a connection between the two. As a result, the probability of voters’ to vote for an anti-immigrant party is drastically increased. The more, henceforth, immigration is talked about and the more crime related news keep coming, voters are ikey to vote for anti immigration party. This may explain why Trump is leading in most of the polls, not because voters like …show more content…

Because his goal, it seems, is to achieve a strategic advantage by making problems which reflect owned issues the programmatic meaning of the election and the criteria by which voters make their choice (John R. Petrocik, Aug., 1996) After all, he is a businessman marketing himself but like any politician, he is also “giving” incentives to offer solutions, and has already tried to avoid blame for problems or inaction, Weaver 1986), done by his party by representing himself more than representing his party. (Green-Pedersen, Christopher and John Wilkerson.

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