Historically a lot of R voters would’ve considered voting D if they’d just stop trying to disarm the working class, but D leadership more and more seems to be the party of, “we know what’s best for you” elitism. But the open border policies really hurt D’s popularity. R voters don’t consider themselves racist or anti-inmigration, they just want affordable housing and instead of blaming late stage capitalism, they blame policies that lured over ten million refugees in one presidential term.
They should work on their public image on that then. Biden kept saying he was working on it but it was complicated and he needed Congress to act. More than ten million entered during his term. Trump cut the rate more than 90% very quickly without action from Congress, mostly by being a hostile asshole and directing agencies to act in kind. Biden’s policies towards them were a welcome mat. Trump has gone too far the other way, but no one can deny Biden’s border policy affected the election.
I’ve seen numbers reported between 8 million and 12 million, with variation leaning high or low by R or D bias, but even 8 million is not far from what I said. Here’s a government source, although this was written before the end of his term:
Historically a lot of R voters would’ve considered voting D if they’d just stop trying to disarm the working class, but D leadership more and more seems to be the party of, “we know what’s best for you” elitism. But the open border policies really hurt D’s popularity. R voters don’t consider themselves racist or anti-inmigration, they just want affordable housing and instead of blaming late stage capitalism, they blame policies that lured over ten million refugees in one presidential term.
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They should work on their public image on that then. Biden kept saying he was working on it but it was complicated and he needed Congress to act. More than ten million entered during his term. Trump cut the rate more than 90% very quickly without action from Congress, mostly by being a hostile asshole and directing agencies to act in kind. Biden’s policies towards them were a welcome mat. Trump has gone too far the other way, but no one can deny Biden’s border policy affected the election.
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I’ve seen numbers reported between 8 million and 12 million, with variation leaning high or low by R or D bias, but even 8 million is not far from what I said. Here’s a government source, although this was written before the end of his term:
https://homeland.house.gov/2024/05/22/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-administration-on-track-to-reach-10-million-encounters-nationwide-before-end-of-fiscal-year/
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The lowest estimate I could find was 7.8 million. If you want to go with that, fine. Or show me I’m wrong. Do you really think it wasn’t happening?