Republican consultant Liz Mair, who last year launched an effort to take down Donald Trump, on Monday night battled conservative commentator Ann Coulter over Trump’s policy ideas, blasting Coulter for not supporting a true conservative.
During a segment on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Mair said she took issue with Trump’s positions on fiscal policy, declaring that he’s too liberal.
“It’s all about immigration,” Coulter said in response. “It doesn’t really matter what a Republican’s position is on saving Social Security or how they’re going to reform Medicare. Americans are being outvoted by foreigners, and Americans have been begging their own party to shut it down, to stop this endless immigration for decades now.”
Coulter said that Americans have rejected “amnesty” and that Trump “is the first one to actually take America’s side on immigration.”
“I think that that’s a patently ludicrous notion,” Mair hit back. She argued that those who have pushed against “amnesty” are “funded by a population-control enthusiast liberal who is actually involved with zero-population growth and the Sierra Club.”
“It’s not actually in any way advancing the economic interests of the American people. Free-market economists across the board agree with that,” Mair said.
Mair later said that Trump is “another liberal.”
“He just happens to have an issue with Mexicans,” she said.
Following a heated debate over Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) eligibility to run for president, Coulter said that her “ideal ticket is Trump/Romney.”
“That’s what I’m really hoping for. That’s a dynamite combination,” she said.
“That is the proof right there that you are in no way conservative and in no way interested in conservative policy,” Mair replied.
Watch the debate via MSNBC:
