How GOP mega-donors burned the conservative base on immigration

In 2016's shadow primary, Republican donors are successfully boxing out the base on its top issue. Can they keep it up?

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Republicans are angry about immigration.

A Gallup poll last year found that a small plurality of GOP voters ranked it their top issue. A more recent survey by the company found that 84 percent of Republicans were dissatisfied with the current level of immigration.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.