Perhaps most important, Stone and Nunberg had attempted to draw Trump’s attention to immigration, a point of friction between grassroots activists and the party’s pro-business establishment since McCain had promoted a 2005 bipartisan bill pairing increased border enforcement with a path to citizenship that conservative media called “amnesty.” But Trump had little organic interest in the topic; he was far more interested in the concept of other nations’ “ripping us off” through trade practices and international institutions. In 2014, Stone and Nunberg came to a new way of approaching the issue:
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