Published:
February 5, 2020
LBJ Professor Victoria DeFrancesco Soto weighed in on President Trump's 2020 State of the Union address, and on what awarding Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom telegraph's about his administration and campaign going forward.
"'Since [Trump] launched his campaign, he's run on a restrictive immigration platform. Rush Limbaugh is a very able partner in that,' said Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a political scientist and lecturer at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs. 'Rush Limbaugh was anti-immigrant before being anti-immigrant was cool.'"