What? First off, how is that related to what I was talking about?
No, what I said is what happened. Especially for down ticket candidates trying to play moderate.
Harris tried to walk a moderate line as well which wasn’t selling anyone on voting for her; at least not anyone that wasn’t already sold for reasons aside from her or her team’s lack of a compelling message.
Harris was not a moderate. She said that she would do nothing different from Biden who allowed illegal migrants to flood across the border. Trump made border security a top issue because he knew Americans wanted tighter border security. Ruben Gallego ran as a centrist in purple Arizona and won.
It’s the other way round. Trump repeated again and again and again that the borders were a problem until people believed it and believed it was something important.
That gave him something none substantive to run on without coming up with real policies.
That does not make it reality. There were immigrants, but, IIRC, the Biden Administration was stopping more than any administration before. The “migrant crisis” was made up, but it was useful to Trump and got good rating for news agencies. News agencies get paid for views, not for accuracy.
So, Abbott wasn’t bussing illegal migrants to blue cities. Perhaps, it’s like the book 1984 where Big Brother controls everything and a person doesn’t know what’s real.
That’s not what I said, and you know it. It was only a political issue because it was created to be one. Without the news and Republicans saying it was an issue, 99.9% of people wouldn’t know anything about it. It was manufactured.
He wasn’t allowing it, MAGAs were literally INVITING people to flood here, screaming loudly, over and over that Biden had OPEN BORDERS, which was not true at all. Nobody was more responsible for all the illegal migration than MAGAs, and they damn well know it.
They did it by design - invite them to come here, then blame Biden, and you were gullible enough to fall for it.
Of course they were, how many times a day did we hear the phrase “Biden’s Open Borders?” It wasn’t Dems saying that, they were saying exactly the opposite, but MAGAs had obviously been told to tell that particular Big Lie over and over.
That’s a standard MAGA strategy. They’ll be doing it again this election, probably something to do with trans in sports or bathrooms, instead of the real issues. And gullible dopes like you will listen to them.
People have eyes. They saw it in the news. Abbott busing migrants to blue cities. Mayors of these cities pleading for Biden to help because the migrants were overwhelming city services.
Is that why the republicans in congress torpedoed bipartisan border legislation at trump’s bidding because if it passed then he would have lost his only talking point?
Republicans only care about the grift, and clearly it’s working on people like you.
That is the reason Trump stopped the bipartisan border bill, but Biden didn’t need it to stop the flood of migrants. He could have used executive orders. Republicans told him he could.
Oh, well as long as republicans said it’s okay, then I guess he can disregard the constitutionally defined limits on presidential authority in order to abuse executive orders to accomplish things they’re not intended for, right? Is that really what you’re saying?
Also, it’s funny how you’re trying to attack Biden over this, even though you openly admit that trump told republicans in congress to kill the legislation specifically because he didn’t want to lose the ability to blame Biden and the Democrats for not doing enough.
Republicans told Biden that he could use executive orders to stop the flood of migrants. Had Republicans attempted to stop the executive orders in court, Biden could have accused them of wanting open borders.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say “All these rules are to be followed, except if your political opposition says it’s okay to break them. Then you can do whatever you want.”
And Biden (or anyone) could already accuse the republicans of wanting open borders. Because republicans were the ones who torpedoed the border legislation (at trump’s bidding).
trump wanted open borders, because it gave him something to focus his propaganda on.
That was the strategy in 2024, it failed soundly unfortunately - mostly because it’s not a compelling platform.
Meanwhile Bernie’s approach of actually selling a progressive message to voters in Red states has actually clicked.
No, it wasn’t. Trump made border security a top issue because Americans were angry that Biden was allowing a flood of illegal migrants.
What? First off, how is that related to what I was talking about?
No, what I said is what happened. Especially for down ticket candidates trying to play moderate.
Harris tried to walk a moderate line as well which wasn’t selling anyone on voting for her; at least not anyone that wasn’t already sold for reasons aside from her or her team’s lack of a compelling message.
Harris was not a moderate. She said that she would do nothing different from Biden who allowed illegal migrants to flood across the border. Trump made border security a top issue because he knew Americans wanted tighter border security. Ruben Gallego ran as a centrist in purple Arizona and won.
It’s the other way round. Trump repeated again and again and again that the borders were a problem until people believed it and believed it was something important.
That gave him something none substantive to run on without coming up with real policies.
It was continuously in the news. Don’t you remember Greg Abbott bussing migrants to blue cities?
That does not make it reality. There were immigrants, but, IIRC, the Biden Administration was stopping more than any administration before. The “migrant crisis” was made up, but it was useful to Trump and got good rating for news agencies. News agencies get paid for views, not for accuracy.
So, Abbott wasn’t bussing illegal migrants to blue cities. Perhaps, it’s like the book 1984 where Big Brother controls everything and a person doesn’t know what’s real.
That’s not what I said, and you know it. It was only a political issue because it was created to be one. Without the news and Republicans saying it was an issue, 99.9% of people wouldn’t know anything about it. It was manufactured.
He wasn’t allowing it, MAGAs were literally INVITING people to flood here, screaming loudly, over and over that Biden had OPEN BORDERS, which was not true at all. Nobody was more responsible for all the illegal migration than MAGAs, and they damn well know it.
They did it by design - invite them to come here, then blame Biden, and you were gullible enough to fall for it.
MAGAs weren’t inviting migrants and even if they were Biden could have stop them at the border just as Trump is doing.
Of course they were, how many times a day did we hear the phrase “Biden’s Open Borders?” It wasn’t Dems saying that, they were saying exactly the opposite, but MAGAs had obviously been told to tell that particular Big Lie over and over.
That’s a standard MAGA strategy. They’ll be doing it again this election, probably something to do with trans in sports or bathrooms, instead of the real issues. And gullible dopes like you will listen to them.
People have eyes. They saw it in the news. Abbott busing migrants to blue cities. Mayors of these cities pleading for Biden to help because the migrants were overwhelming city services.
The news is as real as reality television.
Is that why the republicans in congress torpedoed bipartisan border legislation at trump’s bidding because if it passed then he would have lost his only talking point?
Republicans only care about the grift, and clearly it’s working on people like you.
That is the reason Trump stopped the bipartisan border bill, but Biden didn’t need it to stop the flood of migrants. He could have used executive orders. Republicans told him he could.
Oh, well as long as republicans said it’s okay, then I guess he can disregard the constitutionally defined limits on presidential authority in order to abuse executive orders to accomplish things they’re not intended for, right? Is that really what you’re saying?
Also, it’s funny how you’re trying to attack Biden over this, even though you openly admit that trump told republicans in congress to kill the legislation specifically because he didn’t want to lose the ability to blame Biden and the Democrats for not doing enough.
Republicans told Biden that he could use executive orders to stop the flood of migrants. Had Republicans attempted to stop the executive orders in court, Biden could have accused them of wanting open borders.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say “All these rules are to be followed, except if your political opposition says it’s okay to break them. Then you can do whatever you want.”
And Biden (or anyone) could already accuse the republicans of wanting open borders. Because republicans were the ones who torpedoed the border legislation (at trump’s bidding).
trump wanted open borders, because it gave him something to focus his propaganda on.
No they weren’t and no he wasn’t