Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has gotten off focus on immigration in the past few days, but won't have trouble getting back on track, political analyst Dick Morris tells
Newsmax TV.
Trump "really put his foot in it," when he said Arizona Sen. John McCain wasn't a war hero during a weekend forum, Morris told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth on Wednesday.
"The problem is that when your candidacy is based on telling one bold, strong, outrageous truth after another, it becomes hard to come up with them every day, and at some point you're going to say something which, while partially true, really rubs people the wrong way," Morris said.
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plans to tour the U.S.-Mexican border on Thursday and will have no difficulty getting the message back to immigration because it taps into something Americans deeply feel, Morris said.
"I just read that of the 127,000 kids from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala who showed up on our doorstep last year, 7,000 have been sent home," Morris said. "All of the others are being absorbed into our population."
Trump has also fired back at his critics, often with personal insults. When former Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Trump's McCain comments out of line, Trump called Perry a hypocrite and released a picture of Perry meeting with him during the last presidential race and said that Perry started wearing glasses in hopes of looking smarter.
Trump so far is taking on "marginal figures in the race," Morris said. "He says what he feels and when a guy poses with you and asks you for money and then rips you, that's kind of hypocritical."
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