Priebus: ‘I’m Not Convinced’ Trump ‘Comfortable’ With Mass Deportation

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaks at the Republican Party of Arkansas' Victory 365 center in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, Aug.19, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus on Thursday expressed optimism about the potential for Donald Trump to back away from his initial campaign proposal to deport all undocumented immigrants.

“I’ll wait and see what Donald Trump ultimately decides, I’m not convinced he’s comfortable with the idea of trying to deport 12 million people,” Priebus said on Fox News Radio’s “Kilmeade and Friends” when asked about Trump’s recent comments on immigration. “It’s not a practical place to be, and I don’t necessarily think he was there. I think it’s up to him to work through this.”

Priebus said that Trump’s recent comments indicating he may back off his proposal for mass deportation show “a reasonableness on his part in understanding the issue and trying to come to grips with a positive and practical solution moving forward.”

H/t Buzzfeed News

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  1. Donnie needs to keep working on the hardening of the softening of the detail dodging of the walk-back of the flip-flop of the sarcasm of the stumble of the tongue of the obfuscation of the abbreviated language of what the loser liberal media poorly covered during the earpiece malfunction of his original, widely documented immigrant comments.

    ps Tick tock to Labor Day polling, Reince…

  2. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    … but Trump still wants to do it so it is still a BIG issue.

  3. Loser Reince Priebus Puts Weasel Words in My Mouth! Sad!!

  4. “I’ll wait and see what Donald Trump ultimately decides.”

    It’s still early. He’s only been running for a year and a quarter, and the election is still 74 days off.

  5. So, Reince is saying that the Donald lied throughout the entire primary to win votes? The GOP Chair is saying his nominee has been lying for over a year.

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