Rupert Murdoch Changes Tune on Trump Ahead of Fox Debate

mediaite.com ^ | 8/03/2015 | Matt Wilstein

[GoneSalt]

Apparently a lot can change in two weeks. With the first Republican presidential debate of the 2016 cycle set to air on Fox News Thursday night, Rupert Murdoch used his prolific Twitter account to offer up this bit of political analysis over the weekend:

Fox Thursday debate vital for all candidates. If Trump gets thru unscathed it will be big win. Time for all to understand his support. — Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) August 2, 2015

That is far cry from the sentiment Murdoch put forward about Donald Trump two weekends earlier:

When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country? — Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) July 19, 2015

Is the 21st Century Fox chairman merely trying to hype up the importance of his network’s primetime event or has his mind really been changed when it comes to Trump’s candidacy?

A follow-up tweet on Sunday showed that he is far from counting out the more realistic candidates who currently trail Trump in the polls:

Rupert Murdoch ✔@rupertmurdoch New WSJ poll shows Walker, Bush in strong place. Interesting to see first poll after first debate. 11:02 AM - 2 Aug 2015

Murdoch’s right about one thing, it will be “interesting” to see if Thursday’s debate strengthens or diminishes Trump’s increasingly strong support among potential Republican voters.

[GoneSalt]

I completely trust Cruz but no way do I ditch a QB with a good arm. Trump/Cruz is my hope.

[Zhang Fei]

Citizenship or not, that is amnesty. For many, the principal issue is that 30m illegals (on top of 30m legal immigrants) are holding down wages. Note that birthright citizenship means that illegals who enter under work permits rather than green cards (i.e. path to citizenship) can have anchor babies (US citizen children) born stateside.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/politics/donald-trump-immigration-plan-healthcare-flip-flop/index.html

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Trump said Wednesday in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash that as president he would deport all undocumented immigrants and then allow the “good ones” to reenter the country through an “expedited process” and live in the U.S. legally, though not as citizens.

“Legal status,” Trump suggested. “We got to move ‘em out, we’re going to move ‘em back in if they’re really good people.”

[Red Steel]

Put a GOPE candidate in the White House the immigration situation won’t change and may get worse. There’s only two I have any confidence who would considerably tightening immigration.

[Georgia Girl 2]

With 10 candidates on the stage its going to be hard for any of them to deliver a knockout punch. If Trump just does not flub up he will come out a winner.