One chart saved Trump’s life, but another could salvage his campaign
Recent data suggests that foreign-born workers are nabbing more jobs than native-born Americans. It’s nuanced, but the Republican nominee is capitalising on it.
Washington | Donald Trump frequently refers to an immigration chart that saved him from assassination at an open-air rally in July, but there is another data graph that could save his election campaign in the tightly contested Rust Belt states.
Trump was cocking his head towards the life-saving chart, showing levels of illegal immigration under different White House administrations, when a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear at a rally in Pennsylvania.
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Matthew Cranston was The Australian Financial Review’s United States correspondent.
