Catherine Rampell, an opinion columnist at the Washington Post makes an excellent argument about the top three GOP candidates stance on domestic issues in the presidential campaign. She states that no matter how extreme or fringe Donald Trump's position on key issues such as immigration, foreign affair and healthcare appear to be, other candidates such as Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are not that different.
When it comes to healthcare, all three want to get rid of Obamacare while not always stating specifically what they would replace it with. Trump has stated that he wants to increase competition between insurance companies by getting rid of state lines. Ted Cruz also has proposed similar legislation.
On taxes, Donald Trump has proposed cuts that would end up increasing the deficit by trillions of dollars and are highly regressive. But when you take a deeper look, it appears that Cruz and Rubio's tax plans would also have the same phenomena. All three of the candidates tax plans would disparately hurt poor and the middle-class while giving huge tax cuts for wealthy Americans and corporations.
Immigration wise, Trump and Cruz want to deport 11 million and when it comes to building a wall, all three frontrunners also seem to be on the same page (Trump is the only candidate who has stated that he would make Mexico pay for the wall). All three also would not accept Syrian refugees.
I agree with the writer here. I myself have been following this election cycle closely and have noticed the trend. No matter how extreme Trump's policies appear to be, Cruz and Rubio seem to be desperate to follow and out maneuver each other. It seems like there is an unspoken game the candidates are playing to see who can appear the most right wing.
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