Jesse Watters was defending Trump this morning on Outnumbered and said something that I think many will find to be ridiculous. Differentiating between Trump and the other Republicans in the race, including two Americans from Cuban descent, Watters proclaimed that Trump was running as an American, not a right-wing ideological Republican:
So Cruz isn’t running as an American? Rubio? Kasich or Carson even? Since when is ‘Republican’ not American?
You can make a solid argument that the policies pushed by the Republican Establishment hurt America and have been for a long time, but how is Trump not part of that? He’s been donating to establishment Republicans AND Democrats FOR DECADES.
This Trump is running as an American crap sounds very similar to something else we’ve heard before from Trump surrogates:
Perfect Obama's dad born in Africa, Mitt Romney's dad born in Mexico. Any pure breeds left? #CNNDebate
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) January 20, 2012