Biden says asylum restrictions necessary to 'control border'
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Immigration is a top issue for many voters, and a possible threat to Biden's reelection chances.

Bidens republican immigration bill goes nowhere so he decides to float his own version of a Muslim ban?

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    A Gallup poll at the end of April found that 27% of Americans view immigration as the most important issue facing the country, topping the economy and inflation.

    Piss off your own base to appeal to less than a third of the electorate that isn’t going to vote for you anyway.

    • Audrey0nne@leminal.space
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      5 months ago

      I find his base to be largely split on this issue. There’s the bleeding hearts who cry for amnesty (Sky Daddy bless their souls) and the at best ambivalent and at worst lipstick racist others.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        The part of the base that this anti-immigration move will anger is the same part of the base that’s already angry about the genocide.

        It’s like he’s trying to piss them off specifically and as much as possible.

        • Audrey0nne@leminal.space
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          5 months ago

          If the part that’s going to be pissed off is less than what could be won then is the risk worth taking? Some campaign manager must have thought so or this appeal against his own base is a terrible gamble.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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            5 months ago

            Yes I’m sure he’s not just doing this on a whim, but we’ll see how this pays off in November.

            If he loses it’s his fault alone.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              Nah they’ll blame the people he alienated. They did it for Hillary, they’ll do it for Biden. They block anything remotely progressive and then wonder why progressives don’t run to the polls for them.