NC-03: Griffin goes ‘toe-to-toe’ with Laura Ingraham

The Daily Haymaker ^ | April 16, 2014 | Brant Clifton

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A bit of advice before going on Laura Ingraham’s radio program: Put on your Big Boy / Big Girl Pants. (Laura is tough. She throws no softballs, and makes you defend every pause, comma and apostrophe.)

Renee Ellmers went on the show, and things didn’t go very well. Taylor Griffin, the GOP primary challenger to 3rd district incumbent Walter Jones, put himself in Laura’s hot seat on Tax Day.

Griffin is painting himself as a “conservative” alternative to Jones. Ingraham defended Jones, painting him as a solid social conservative with a more populist, Pat Buchanan-style Republicanism.

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It seems like he wanted to deport 12 million or reward 12 million. “We’ve got to get them out of the country or into the system. We need some sort of normalization for people already in the country.”