Bamboozled! What Made Everyone Think Trump Was Changing On Immigration?

There was quite the hype going into Donald Trump's immigration speech Wednesday night. Trump and a fresh-faced campaign manager had kept us on the edge of our seats. There was a last-minute diplomatic meeting with the president of Mexico for goodness sake. There was a press conference hours before his address in which Trump himself said the words "I happen to have a tremendous feeling for Mexican Americans."

This, many Republicans hoped, sounded like a candidate who was going to shift, change, soften, moderate ... PIVOT, if you will (sorry, we had to say it).

It was all a ruse, though. What we were left with was the Trump we have always known. He wants a border wall, he is certain Mexico will pay for it and he gave no indication that he wouldn't deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the country.

So what happened? How did we come to believe Trump might reform his policies ahead of the general election? We didn't create this. Here are the clues over the last two weeks that set the stage for the big Trump speech in Phoenix that turned out not to be so big at all:...
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