Wall Street Journal
By Elizabeth Williamson
July 12, 2015
Republican
presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that fellow GOP
candidate Donald Trump’s comments about illegal immigrants last week
presented a “defining
moment for the Republican Party,” and called on GOP Chairman Reince
Priebus to publicly repudiate Mr. Trump’s labeling of illegal immigrants
as “drug dealers” and “rapists.”
Speaking
on CNN’s State of the Union, Mr. Graham called Mr. Trump a “wrecking
ball,” whose rambling remarks on ending illegal immigration last week
offended Hispanic groups
nationwide. The South Carolina senator called the billionaire’s
comments “offensive on every level,” and harmful to the party’s image
among Hispanic voters. After GOP candidate Mitt Romney lost the 2012
presidential race, Mr. Priebus, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, conducted a study of the loss that recommended,
among other things, that the party make a stronger effort to reach out
to Hispanics, most of whom are Democrats.
“As
to the Republican Party, if we do not reject this way of thinking
clearly without any ambiguity, we will have lost our way. We will have
lost the moral authority,
in my view, to govern this great nation,” Mr. Grahams said Sunday. “We
should reject this demagoguery. If we don’t, we will lose and we will
deserve to lose.”
On
the talk that Mr. Trump might run as a third-party candidate, hurting
the GOP, Mr. Graham said ” We can’t worry about what Donald Trump might
do. We have to focus on
what we should do. And, as a party, we should reject what he says,
because it’s not true.”
Mr.
Graham said Mr. Priebus and “anyone with a responsible position in the
Republican Party,” should publicly state, “We do not agree with Donald
Trump when he says that
most illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists. We have quite the
opposite view– that this is a hard problem and needs to be solved. Most
of these people are decent, hard-working folks coming from poor
countries to try to improve their lives, and we
need to create order out of chaos.
“If
we can’t get this right, then we’re going to keep digging a hole and
it’s going to cost us the 2016 election at a time when we could win.”
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