Just appalling: A new poll finds that Trump gets far less blame for killing the border deal than Biden does, even though Trump *explicitly* called on Republicans to vote it down.
This is exactly why the GOP did his bidding and sank the deal. 1/
Link:
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Trump gets far less blame than Biden for killing the deal even though *Republicans themselves* said they were voting it down because Trump told them to. Dems made most the concessions. Trump himself said he wanted it as an issue. 2/
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Trump/GOP know the sitting POTUS will get blamed when things go wrong. But this problem is particularly brutal on immigration: Congress has put the executive in an impossible position, and voters don't know this. I tried to explain how this works here. 3/
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Ugly new dynamic: Trump has unprecedented influence over his party for an ex-president and can get the GOP to do his bidding without taking voter blame for the results.
Dems must highlight that Rs are sabotaging the country because Trump told them to. 4/
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Killing that bill wasn't sabotaging the country. That bill was. Dems need to stop the tough border messaging and talk about how immigrants make us great. Campaigning on how Trump killed their bad bill is useless.
