UOL: Pressure from Republicans and the press about Donald Trump has dubious effect

Pressure from Republicans and the press about Donald Trump has dubious effect

ELIZABETH FLECK

OF SÃO PAULO

8/11/2016 2:00

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An open letter signed by 50 leading names Republicans in areas of national securityand foreign policy against Donald Trump was the latest blow to the campaign of the party's candidate for the White House.

In the text, the experts — most of them Government officials of George w. Bush (2001-2009) — say that the businessman would be the President more "reckless" the country would endanger u.s. Security.

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The Republican candidate for President of the USA, Donald Trump, participates in rally in Virginia

The Republican candidate for President of the USA, Donald Trump, participates in rally in Virginia

The resistance of the Republican party, which has always been present in Trump campaign, seems to have intensified after the Convention that formalized his candidacy last month.

The friendly fire adds to a position contrary to the entrepreneur increasingly evidentin the American press, even among conservative publications.

Experts, however, differ on the actual impact of the campaign to disqualify Trump candidate performance in November.

David Boaz of the Cato Institute, it is likely that actions such as the Charter of 50 Republicans or public demonstrations of important members of the party — as the article on Senator Susan Collins to Washington Post declaring vote against the entrepreneur — undermine Trump with white voters with high degree of schooling.

"But this is a group in which he already has less support Mitt Romney in 2012. So it's going to be tough he deteriorates your situation with that part of the electorate,unless Republicans more prominent if you speak against it. "

Michael Barone, specialist of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says that the letter can reinforce, among voters who prefer a Republican, the feeling that Trump is not to be trusted in foreign policy.

There are, however, who believe that the pressure of the companions of acronym and part of the media may have an opposite effect. That's because it would strengthen the profile of someone outside the traditional policy of Trump, which voters.

"As he is seen as the underdog in the election, the more he is criticized and ridiculed by powerful in politics and in the media, more average Americans are likely to start to identify with him and his cause," says Patrick Basham, Director of the Center forDemocracy Studies Institute.

The argument is disputed by Boaz, who claims that Trump will need more than the image of "outsider" to become President.

"Trump was successful when competing in the primary against experienced politicians, but now need to expand its attractions. In the primary, 13,000,000 voted for him,now he needs 65 million. "

An ABC News/Washington Post poll made last week to the Republican Convention, in July, with 1,003 people, shows in the Trump challenge numbers: 55% said to prefer a candidate with experience in politics, against 41 percent who want someone "out".

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Another poll, Reuters/Ipsos, disclosed on Wednesday (10), showed that 44% of voters think that Trump should drop out of the race.

1,162 people were heard recorded between 5 and 8, and the margin of error is three percentage points.

When clipping is done only among Republicans (396), one in five want the entrepreneur get out of the race (but the margin of error is larger, six points).

On the numbers, the efforts made on the part of the Republicans and the media tostop Trump should continue.

The editor-in-Chief of the "Washington Post", Cameron Barr, said in a recent interview to the New York Times that the imbalance in coverage is not created by the newspapers. "The candidate who is creating." On July 22, the Post published an editorialsaying that Trump is a "unique threat" to American democracy.

Carolyn Ryan, political editor of the New York Times, agrees. In the same report, sheargues that the behavior and the profile of Trump require a "broad coverage and aggressive".