He sold border wall and caravan invasion across the country before last months midterm election’s to Republican’s ..
But in border states?
It does not seem to be that big of an issue….
So?
Why would either party want to give this guy $5 Billion of OUR taxpayer money to be happy?
First Read: “For all the talk about Trump’s border-wall demand in the current fight to keep the government open, it’s worth reminding everyone of the GOP’s midterm performance in the states along the U.S.-Mexico border. That performance? It wasn’t that great.”
- In California, the GOP got wiped out, losing seven House seats, the gubernatorial race, and Republicans didn’t even have a candidate in the Senate matchup due to the state’s Top 2 primary system.
- In Arizona, the GOP won the gubernatorial race, but it lost a Senate seat, as well as the competitive AZ-2 House contest.
- In New Mexico, Democrats won up and down the ballot – for governor, senator, and it picked up the NM-2 House seat.
- And in Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz barely won his Senate race, while Democrats picked up two congressional seats outside of Dallas (TX-32) and Houston (TX-7).
“Now much of that poor performance by the GOP could be attributed to the sizable portion of the Latino vote in these four states, or the Dem performance in the suburbs in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. But as President Trump tried to make the last weeks of the midterms about immigration and that caravan, note the states where that message appeared to fall flat — the ones closest to the border.”…..
Trump’s campaigns seem to do best in his heartland, in the interior farm states and Bible Belt, which are the furthest removed removed from immigration, non-citizens, Islam and ethnic change, but for some reason (ignorance? unfamiliarity? reliance on outside media?) seem the most agitated about them.
Florida, a classic swing state since the 1950’s, is the exception to this, but look at the other states this cycle:
The GOP lost Senate seats in Arizona and Nevada, but gained them not only in Florida but in North Dakota, Missouri and Indiana.
As for other swing states within the once-Blue Wall (closer than the Farm Belt to immigration), the Democrats either held their own or picked up governorships and House seats in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Some of this is candidates….
But yes….
There has been a bit of realignment….
We’ll see what is coming at us for 2020….
Could a Trump collapse change all of this?
Could the Democrats come out with better candidates?
Could a 2020 continued ‘Blue Wave’ increase the House numbers and help Dem’s gain in the Senate?