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'''Act of Love''' is a phrase used by American politician [[Jeb Bush]] to describe the act of immigrating illegally to the United States for the purpose of improving a family's economic condition, and also a U.S. [[Campaign advertising|political advertisement]] released by the [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|2016 presidential campaign]] of [[Donald Trump]] as part of an attack on Bush's approach to [[illegal immigration to the United States]]. |
'''Act of Love''' is a phrase used by American politician [[Jeb Bush]] to describe the act of immigrating illegally to the United States for the purpose of improving a family's economic condition, and also a U.S. [[Campaign advertising|political advertisement]] released by the [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|2016 presidential campaign]] of [[Donald Trump]] as part of an attack on Bush's approach to [[illegal immigration to the United States]]. |
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==Background== |
==Background== |
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Bush made the statement in answer to a question put by a reporter during a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the presidency of his father, [[George H. W. Bush]], held at the [[George Bush Presidential Library]] in April 2014.<ref name="OKeefeSpeech">{{cite news|last1=O'Keefe|first1=Ed|title=Jeb Bush: Many illegal immigrants come out of an 'act of love'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/04/06/jeb-bush-many-illegal-immigrants-come-out-of-an-act-of-love/?tid=a_inl| |
Bush made the statement in answer to a question put by a reporter during a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the presidency of his father, [[George H. W. Bush]], held at the [[George Bush Presidential Library]] in April 2014.<ref name="OKeefeSpeech">{{cite news|last1=O'Keefe|first1=Ed|title=Jeb Bush: Many illegal immigrants come out of an 'act of love'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/04/06/jeb-bush-many-illegal-immigrants-come-out-of-an-act-of-love/?tid=a_inl|access-date=February 24, 2016|newspaper=Washington Post|date=April 6, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307083621/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/04/06/jeb-bush-many-illegal-immigrants-come-out-of-an-act-of-love/?tid=a_inl|archive-date=March 7, 2016}}</ref> During the [[Republican Party presidential debates and forums, 2016|August 6, 2015 Republican Presidential debate]], when moderator [[Chris Wallace]] asked Bush if he stood by this statement, Bush responded, "I do. I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family." He added that "there should be a path to earned legal status" for illegal immigrants.<ref name="Fehrnstrom">{{cite news|last1=Fehrnstrom|first1=Eric|title=A punch-drunk Jeb Bush carries on|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/10/punch-drunk-jeb-bush-carries/AFJZk3IF7UwmOsd4jqMfIP/story.html|access-date=February 25, 2016|publisher=[[Boston Globe]]|date=February 10, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222065713/https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/10/punch-drunk-jeb-bush-carries/AFJZk3IF7UwmOsd4jqMfIP/story.html|archive-date=February 22, 2016}}</ref><ref name="TaylorDebate">{{cite news|last1=Taylor|first1=Jessica|title=Trump Clashes With Rivals, Fox Moderators In First GOP Debate|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/06/430153100/the-trump-show-begins|access-date=March 23, 2016|publisher=NPR|date=August 6, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331083029/http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/06/430153100/the-trump-show-begins|archive-date=March 31, 2016}}</ref> |
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The advertisement, released in August 2015, attacked Bush by playing a tape of Bush defending illegal entry into the U.S. by undocumented migrants as "an act of love." In the ad, mugshots of [[illegal immigrant]]s who committed violent crimes in the U.S. alternate with footage of Bush saying, "Yeah, they broke the law, but it's not a felony.... It's an act of love."<ref name="RichardsonActofLove">{{cite news|last1=Richardson|first1=Bradford|title=Trump rips Bush over 'act of love' remarks on illegal immigration|url= |
The advertisement, released in August 2015, attacked Bush by playing a tape of Bush defending illegal entry into the U.S. by undocumented migrants as "an act of love." In the ad, mugshots of [[illegal immigrant]]s who committed violent crimes in the U.S. alternate with footage of Bush saying, "Yeah, they broke the law, but it's not a felony.... It's an act of love."<ref name="RichardsonActofLove">{{cite news|last1=Richardson|first1=Bradford|title=Trump rips Bush over 'act of love' remarks on illegal immigration|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/252325-trump-rips-bush-over-act-of-love-remarks-on-illegal/|access-date=February 24, 2016|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|date=August 31, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220100558/http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/252325-trump-rips-bush-over-act-of-love-remarks-on-illegal|archive-date=February 20, 2016}}</ref><ref name="WarrenActofLove">{{cite news|last1=Warren|first1=Michael|title=Trump Hits Jeb on 'Act of Love'|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-hits-jeb-on-act-of-love/article/1023012|access-date=February 24, 2016|publisher=The Weekly Standard|date=August 31, 2015}}</ref> |
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It is regarded by a number of commentators as having been a crucial turning point in the failure of the Bush candidacy.<ref name="Fehrnstrom"/><ref name="Gonzo/video"/> |
It is regarded by a number of commentators as having been a crucial turning point in the failure of the Bush candidacy.<ref name="Fehrnstrom"/><ref name="Gonzo/video"/> |
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==Response to advertisement== |
==Response to advertisement== |
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The ad attracted comparisons to the 1988 "[[Willie Horton]]" advertisement, "one of the most notorious political attacks in recent decades."<ref>{{cite |
The ad attracted comparisons to the 1988 "[[Willie Horton]]" advertisement, "one of the most notorious political attacks in recent decades."<ref>{{cite news|first=Philip|last=Rucker|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/31/chilling-trump-video-attacks-bush-for-calling-illegal-immigration-act-of-love/|title=Chilling Trump video attacks Bush for calling illegal immigration 'act of love'|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 31, 2015|access-date=February 25, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307134414/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/31/chilling-trump-video-attacks-bush-for-calling-illegal-immigration-act-of-love/|archive-date=March 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Stokols|first1=Eli|title=Under attack, Bush calls Trump soft on crime|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-responds-to-donald-trump-213197|newspaper=Politico|quote=Trump released a video Monday morning that features Bush's statement about undocumented immigrants crossing the border as "an act of love" with images of three undocumented immigrants facing murder charges — a video many are comparing to the infamous Willie Horton TV ad used by George H.W. Bush's supporters in 1988 to portray the Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, as soft on crime.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103165348/http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-responds-to-donald-trump-213197|archive-date=2017-01-03}}</ref> |
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===Role in 2016 campaign=== |
===Role in 2016 campaign=== |
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The phrase is regarded as having played a role in the withdrawal of Bush's candidacy.<ref name="SaddiquiBush">{{cite news|last1=Saddiqui|first1=Sabina|title=Fall of the House of Bush|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/21/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-donald-trump| |
The phrase is regarded as having played a role in the withdrawal of Bush's candidacy.<ref name="SaddiquiBush">{{cite news|last1=Saddiqui|first1=Sabina|title=Fall of the House of Bush|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/21/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-donald-trump|access-date=March 24, 2016|work=The Guardian|date=February 21, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319120307/http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/21/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-donald-trump|archive-date=March 19, 2016}}</ref> |
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Looking back on the event months later, ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' called "Act of Love" a "[[wikt:gonzo|gonzo]] web video" and "Trump's first truly effective ad" and said that it "pointed out that the debate in which Bush defended [[illegal immigrant]]s took place just a month after the killing of [[Shooting of Kathryn Steinle|Kathryn Steinle]] in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant who had been deported multiple times."<ref name="Gonzo/video">{{cite news|last1=Warren|first1=Michael|title=Donald Trump Loses His Perfect Foil - Jeb Bush|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/donald-trump-loses-his-perfect-foil-jeb-bush/article/2001189| |
Looking back on the event months later, ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' called "Act of Love" a "[[wikt:gonzo|gonzo]] web video" and "Trump's first truly effective ad" and said that it "pointed out that the debate in which Bush defended [[illegal immigrant]]s took place just a month after the killing of [[Shooting of Kathryn Steinle|Kathryn Steinle]] in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant who had been deported multiple times."<ref name="Gonzo/video">{{cite news|last1=Warren|first1=Michael|title=Donald Trump Loses His Perfect Foil - Jeb Bush|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/donald-trump-loses-his-perfect-foil-jeb-bush/article/2001189|access-date=February 25, 2016|publisher=[[The Weekly Standard]]|date=February 20, 2016}}</ref> The ad features an image of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, the sole suspect in that killing.<ref name="WeinbergTrumpVideo">{{cite news|last1=Weinberg|first1=Ali|title=Kate Steinle Lawsuit Has Political Reverberations in Washington Over Illegal Immigration|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kate-steinle-lawsuit-political-reverberations-washington-illegal-immigration/story?id=33461835|access-date=February 25, 2016|work=ABC News|date=September 1, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212659/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kate-steinle-lawsuit-political-reverberations-washington-illegal-immigration/story?id=33461835|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> |
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According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', "[n]o candidate in the race was prepared for GOP voters' opposition to immigration, with the exception of Trump", and the anti-illegal-immigration sentiment tapped by Trump contributed to Bush's defeat.<ref name="PostGameAnalysis">{{cite news|last1=Ehrenfreund|first1=Max|title=Republican voters are rejecting not just Jeb Bush, but the whole Bush legacy|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/22/gop-voters-have-roundly-rejected-the-bush-legacy/| |
According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', "[n]o candidate in the race was prepared for GOP voters' opposition to immigration, with the exception of Trump", and the anti-illegal-immigration sentiment tapped by Trump contributed to Bush's defeat.<ref name="PostGameAnalysis">{{cite news|last1=Ehrenfreund|first1=Max|title=Republican voters are rejecting not just Jeb Bush, but the whole Bush legacy|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/22/gop-voters-have-roundly-rejected-the-bush-legacy/|access-date=February 24, 2016|newspaper=Washington Post|date=February 22, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224040405/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/22/gop-voters-have-roundly-rejected-the-bush-legacy/|archive-date=February 24, 2016}}</ref> According to [[Eric Fehrnstrom]], a Republican political analyst and media strategist, Bush's response to the question put to him about this statement during the August 2015 Republican presidential debate marked a crucial turning point in the campaign for the Republican nomination.<ref name="Fehrnstrom"/> Looking back on the campaign, conservative political analyst [[Michael Barone (pundit)|Michael Barone]] considers the Trump's two-pronged attack on Bush in the August Republican primary debate, for the "act of love" position on illegal immigration and for being weak, as a key moment in Trump's political rise.<ref name="BaroneActofLove">{{cite news|last1=Barone|first1=Michael|title=The five key ingredients of Donald Trump's soaraway success|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12181094/The-five-key-ingredients-of-Donald-Trumps-soaraway-success.html|access-date=March 23, 2016|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320034017/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12181094/The-five-key-ingredients-of-Donald-Trumps-soaraway-success.html|archive-date=March 20, 2016}}</ref> |
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===Impact of ad on campaign media=== |
===Impact of ad on campaign media=== |
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The ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' described the ad, together with Bush's attacks on Trump, as pivotal in transforming [[Instagram]] from a personal photo-sharing app that some celebrities and politicians used to enhance their images into a campaign tool.<ref name="GarafoliTool">{{cite news|last1=Garafoli|first1=Joe|title=Trump and Bush attack ads turn Instagram into a battleground|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Trump-and-Bush-attack-ads-turn-Instagram-into-a-6486213.php| |
The ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' described the ad, together with Bush's attacks on Trump, as pivotal in transforming [[Instagram]] from a personal photo-sharing app that some celebrities and politicians used to enhance their images into a campaign tool.<ref name="GarafoliTool">{{cite news|last1=Garafoli|first1=Joe|title=Trump and Bush attack ads turn Instagram into a battleground|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Trump-and-Bush-attack-ads-turn-Instagram-into-a-6486213.php|access-date=February 24, 2016|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|date=September 4, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303145649/http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Trump-and-Bush-attack-ads-turn-Instagram-into-a-6486213.php|archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Act of Love is a phrase used by American politician Jeb Bush to describe the act of immigrating illegally to the United States for the purpose of improving a family's economic condition, and also a U.S. political advertisement released by the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump as part of an attack on Bush's approach to illegal immigration to the United States.
Background
Bush made the statement in answer to a question put by a reporter during a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the presidency of his father, George H. W. Bush, held at the George Bush Presidential Library in April 2014.[1] During the August 6, 2015 Republican Presidential debate, when moderator Chris Wallace asked Bush if he stood by this statement, Bush responded, "I do. I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family." He added that "there should be a path to earned legal status" for illegal immigrants.[2][3]
The advertisement, released in August 2015, attacked Bush by playing a tape of Bush defending illegal entry into the U.S. by undocumented migrants as "an act of love." In the ad, mugshots of illegal immigrants who committed violent crimes in the U.S. alternate with footage of Bush saying, "Yeah, they broke the law, but it's not a felony.... It's an act of love."[4][5]
It is regarded by a number of commentators as having been a crucial turning point in the failure of the Bush candidacy.[2][6]
Response to advertisement
The ad attracted comparisons to the 1988 "Willie Horton" advertisement, "one of the most notorious political attacks in recent decades."[7][8]
Role in 2016 campaign
The phrase is regarded as having played a role in the withdrawal of Bush's candidacy.[9]
Looking back on the event months later, The Weekly Standard called "Act of Love" a "gonzo web video" and "Trump's first truly effective ad" and said that it "pointed out that the debate in which Bush defended illegal immigrants took place just a month after the killing of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant who had been deported multiple times."[6] The ad features an image of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, the sole suspect in that killing.[10]
According to The Washington Post, "[n]o candidate in the race was prepared for GOP voters' opposition to immigration, with the exception of Trump", and the anti-illegal-immigration sentiment tapped by Trump contributed to Bush's defeat.[11] According to Eric Fehrnstrom, a Republican political analyst and media strategist, Bush's response to the question put to him about this statement during the August 2015 Republican presidential debate marked a crucial turning point in the campaign for the Republican nomination.[2] Looking back on the campaign, conservative political analyst Michael Barone considers the Trump's two-pronged attack on Bush in the August Republican primary debate, for the "act of love" position on illegal immigration and for being weak, as a key moment in Trump's political rise.[12]
Impact of ad on campaign media
The San Francisco Chronicle described the ad, together with Bush's attacks on Trump, as pivotal in transforming Instagram from a personal photo-sharing app that some celebrities and politicians used to enhance their images into a campaign tool.[13]
References
- ^ O'Keefe, Ed (April 6, 2014). "Jeb Bush: Many illegal immigrants come out of an 'act of love'". Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ^ a b c Fehrnstrom, Eric (February 10, 2016). "A punch-drunk Jeb Bush carries on". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ Taylor, Jessica (August 6, 2016). "Trump Clashes With Rivals, Fox Moderators In First GOP Debate". NPR. Archived from the original on March 31, 2016. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
- ^ Richardson, Bradford (August 31, 2015). "Trump rips Bush over 'act of love' remarks on illegal immigration". The Hill. Archived from the original on February 20, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ^ Warren, Michael (August 31, 2015). "Trump Hits Jeb on 'Act of Love'". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ^ a b Warren, Michael (February 20, 2016). "Donald Trump Loses His Perfect Foil - Jeb Bush". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ Rucker, Philip (August 31, 2015). "Chilling Trump video attacks Bush for calling illegal immigration 'act of love'". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ Stokols, Eli. "Under attack, Bush calls Trump soft on crime". Politico. Archived from the original on 2017-01-03.
Trump released a video Monday morning that features Bush's statement about undocumented immigrants crossing the border as "an act of love" with images of three undocumented immigrants facing murder charges — a video many are comparing to the infamous Willie Horton TV ad used by George H.W. Bush's supporters in 1988 to portray the Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, as soft on crime.
- ^ Saddiqui, Sabina (February 21, 2016). "Fall of the House of Bush". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 19, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
- ^ Weinberg, Ali (September 1, 2015). "Kate Steinle Lawsuit Has Political Reverberations in Washington Over Illegal Immigration". ABC News. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ Ehrenfreund, Max (February 22, 2016). "Republican voters are rejecting not just Jeb Bush, but the whole Bush legacy". Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 24, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ^ Barone, Michael (March 3, 2016). "The five key ingredients of Donald Trump's soaraway success". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on March 20, 2016. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
- ^ Garafoli, Joe (September 4, 2015). "Trump and Bush attack ads turn Instagram into a battleground". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.