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President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements. He knew this anger was volcanic.
Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate in this race -- or any previous presidential race -- to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. He asked former Disney IT employees, upset over having to train foreign replacements, to speak at his rallies.
"The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker at a Trump rally in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."
Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @11:26PM
" explicitly in favor of arresting women who get abortions"
Nope. He was pushed into saying there should be some kind of punishment for women, and walked it back the very next day. That was never his policy, nor clearly anything he had thought about.
Make no mistake, he will nominate anti-choice justices, and they will absolutely get on the supreme court. When the Democrats used the "nuclear option" to remove the filibuster a few years ago, the Republicans TOLD THEM that they would do the same for supreme court justices if they did it. Well, they did it. The Republicans have avoided actually BEING too anti-choice at the federal level, probably because they fear the blowback. Trump doesn't seem to have any such qualms, or ideological skin in the game, but he does have promises to keep. Plus, his distance from the party lets them blame him for it later.