Vice President Kamala Harris has used her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee to try to project a tougher stance on illegal migration.
“The American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games,” Harris plans to say, according to an excerpt of her remarks previewed by her campaign.
After the immigration legislation stalled, the Biden administration announced rules that bar migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials deem that the southern border is overwhelmed. Since then, arrests for illegal border crossings have fallen.
It might be what a plurality of Americans want, but not if we narrow it down to anyone that would ever vote D.
It’s only what a plurality of what Americans want because a plurality of Americans is a collection of easily misled idiots. The fact that Democratic leadership decided to also run with the complete falsehood of “Migrant Crime” and feeling like we need to lock down the border is absolutely appalling. The correct thing to do would be to deconstruct this myth of violent immigrants, and campaign on expanding immigration judge positions to move through our backlog of cases quicker. Instead they amplified false propoganda that the Republicans made up.
The goal isn’t to get that guy’s supporters, but rather the Never Trumpers.
As I’ve written before, https://lemmy.world/comment/12409521 , there’s reason to believe that Never Trumper split voters are what pushed Biden past the line into a 2020 win. So this is actually the right strategy.
I suspect the problem is that the voters you are seeking are likely folks who live in places like California and New York - winning over those voters in states that will almost certainly swing for Harris in the Electoral College (EC) anyways won’t count for as much. The EC is really bad - it’s forcing the Dems more rightward to cater to folks who live in the midwest, in smaller states, and in battleground states - over the more populous views of Californians and such.
It may not even be a plurality - just that the nature of the Electoral College is shifting the Dem party towards a small subset of the States of the USA. A good reason why the EC has got to go…
I like the sentiment, but I think it’s been peddled so long that I think it would take too much time to dispel. It’s one of those things that I feel was said so many times over the years that even people with more sense started to believe it.
I think they’re meeting people where they are, in hopes to pull some people from the other side. Because obviously the people who understand that the whole thing is BS are already voting for Harris because the alternative is insane.
So I never thought that Dick Cheney would vote for a Dem president, but here we are. The range of folks who are willing to vote Blue keeps expanding and becoming more diverse.
It might be what a plurality of Americans want, but not if we narrow it down to anyone that would ever vote D.
It’s only what a plurality of what Americans want because a plurality of Americans is a collection of easily misled idiots. The fact that Democratic leadership decided to also run with the complete falsehood of “Migrant Crime” and feeling like we need to lock down the border is absolutely appalling. The correct thing to do would be to deconstruct this myth of violent immigrants, and campaign on expanding immigration judge positions to move through our backlog of cases quicker. Instead they amplified false propoganda that the Republicans made up.
They’re ignoring the people who could be convinced to vote D in favor of Trumpers who will never vote D.
It’s just terrible strategy, especially it results in republicans going further right.
The goal isn’t to get that guy’s supporters, but rather the Never Trumpers.
As I’ve written before, https://lemmy.world/comment/12409521 , there’s reason to believe that Never Trumper split voters are what pushed Biden past the line into a 2020 win. So this is actually the right strategy.
I suspect the problem is that the voters you are seeking are likely folks who live in places like California and New York - winning over those voters in states that will almost certainly swing for Harris in the Electoral College (EC) anyways won’t count for as much. The EC is really bad - it’s forcing the Dems more rightward to cater to folks who live in the midwest, in smaller states, and in battleground states - over the more populous views of Californians and such.
It may not even be a plurality - just that the nature of the Electoral College is shifting the Dem party towards a small subset of the States of the USA. A good reason why the EC has got to go…
I like the sentiment, but I think it’s been peddled so long that I think it would take too much time to dispel. It’s one of those things that I feel was said so many times over the years that even people with more sense started to believe it.
I think they’re meeting people where they are, in hopes to pull some people from the other side. Because obviously the people who understand that the whole thing is BS are already voting for Harris because the alternative is insane.
So I never thought that Dick Cheney would vote for a Dem president, but here we are. The range of folks who are willing to vote Blue keeps expanding and becoming more diverse.