Posted on 11/03/2018 6:02:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Red-state Democrats are touting their border security bona fides as President Trump hammers the issue in the final week of the midterm election.
Democrats — hoping to eek out wins in states where Trump triumphed in 2016—have focused on their ability to work with the administration on the border, even as the president and their GOP opponents try to paint them as obstructionists on immigration.
Immigration has emerged as an explosive, and deeply divisive, issue in the Trump era. The president is barnstorming key Senate states this week, accusing Democrats of supporting “open borders, socialism, and crime.” And he released an ad that appeared to link Democrats to criminal migrants.
ADVERTISEMENT Seventy eight percent of registered voters say immigration will be extremely or very important to them as they determine who to vote for in the midterms, according to a Gallup Poll released Friday, including 84 percent of GOP or Republican leaning voters and 74 percent of Democrats or voters who lean toward the party.
And several Democrats locked in close Senate races that will make or break who controls the chamber next year have talked up their support for Trump as they try to appeal to moderate and crossover Trump voters they desperately need to attract to win reelection.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) aligned herself with Trump on border security this week, telling Fox News that she “100 percent supports” Trump on preventing a migrant caravan from entering the United States.
“The impression he's giving Missourians that somehow, the Democrats are in favor of our border being overrun. I am not. I support the President 100% doing what he needs to do to secure the border,” she added in a separate press conference with reporters.
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“Seventy eight percent of registered voters say immigration will be extremely or very important to them as they determine who to vote for in the midterms, according to a Gallup Poll released Friday, including 84 percent of GOP or Republican leaning voters and 74 percent of Democrats or voters who lean toward the party.”
And somehow the RATs are going to claim the Congress?
These democRATs are not embarrassed when they say things that everyone knows is a lie.
Too late, especially for lip service.
We already get our fill of that from the GOPee.
If they get re-elected, they’ll vote as Chuck-U tells them to vote.
They must think their constituents are stupid.
Words are cheap, especially now.
Fighting for their lives? For a year we’ve been told the Dems would roll in the midterms. What happened? The MSM is telling us in a subtle way all is not well with the Democrats!
Sheesh. You don’t “eek” out wins!
Hey Hill — hire an editor, willya?
You can say anything to get elected.
Look at their record not their election-time rhetoric.
immigration is important “74 percent of Democrats”
could mean something entirely different to them, like open borders
Could it be, could it be? Do you believe in miracles? Yes!—
Al Michaels on US hockey victory in Olympics.
Can it be the GOP WILL win the US House and Senate? Yes!
Like the proverbial rug.
It makes me laugh every time I hear a democrat say they are for border security...Who believes this?
Illegal immigration is kryptonite for the dems.
They can’t get Americans to vote for them so they have to import their voters.
And the only ones they may be fooling are some of dems.
The linked article at the Hill spells it correctly. Eke.
I don't know how that got changed to "eek" in this posting.
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