Trump’s Next Big Issue is…

Donald Trump is not dead yet.

Pundits and analysts were writing his political obituary last weekend after he questioned whether Sen. John McCain was a war hero. Then he refused to apologize for it. And what has happened since?

Donald Trump continues to tap into Americans’ persistent concerns about illegal immigration, an issue that establishment Republicans have been loath to raise for fear of offending the large and rapidly growing Hispanic electorate, Fox News commentator Gretchen Carlson said Friday morning on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

“Donald Trump has (brought) the national conversation back to these crucial issues that, quite frankly, no one has done anything about,” she said.

“Donald Trump has (brought) the national conversation back to these crucial issues that, quite frankly, no one has done anything about,” she said. “Maybe people are seeing hope within him that he might actually get something done.”

On Thursday, Trump made a four-hour swing by the border in Loredo, Texas, wearing a baseball hat that proclaimed “Make America Great Again” as he kept up his drumbeat on the issues of illegal immigration and border patrol all while illegals continued to cross into this country.

“I think I’ll win the Hispanic vote,” he said at a news gaggle afterward. “Over the years, thousands and thousands of Hispanics have worked for me.”

Trump currently leads the crowded Republican primary field in the polls as his contenders struggle for media coverage in the face of the Trump juggernaut.

Aside from his passion for fixing the problems of illegal immigration, he also frequently peppers his public comments with sharp jabs.

Just to name a few, Trump has called Hillary Clinton “the worst secretary of state in the history of this country.” He has also called Ohio Gov. John Kasich “desperate,” Republican strategist Karl Rove “a total loser” and South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham “a total lightweight” who couldn’t get a job in the private sector. Trump famously shared Graham’s personal cellphone number at a recent campaign event and suggested that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was not a war hero. He also said former Texas Gov. Rick Perry started wearing glasses so people would think he is smart.

“We pay for politics in loads of ways, so I think we can at least get the benefit of being entertained,” Larry Sabato said Friday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

“We pay for politics in loads of ways, so I think we can at least get the benefit of being entertained,” Larry Sabato said Friday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

“He’s not going to be the nominee, and we need to remember that this is the summer before the election here,” said Sabato, a political scientist. “And politics always is about, at least to a certain degree, entertainment. We pay for politics in loads of ways, so I think we can at least get the benefit of being entertained.”

Sabato, who runs the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, concurred that Trump’s surge is about more than style.

“He’s touching on certain issues that other candidates are going to have to corral,” he said.

Sabato, though, expressed doubts about Trump’s long-term staying power: “He’s not the right messenger for them.”

While he still has the spotlight, what other issues will Trump take on in the days and weeks ahead? Will his next big issue be protecting the Second Amendment and Americans’ gun rights in the wake of the latest shooting and how President Obama and those on the left would like to change the access to guns? Or will Trump focus on Americans’ wages and the influx of foreign workers’ effect on that? ​No matter what issue he embraces next, the American people (and everyone else) will be watching.

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