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.
Also, the "liberal" media has been hell-bent on scaring people on the border. Truth is, a lot of moderates are concerned about the border. And they determine elections. As president, he is expected to address people's concerns.
The genocide is one that I can't get over. I understand the bill that got Ukrainian aid. But he won't even call it a genocide. Even with Rafah he backpedaled.
I honestly like or at least accept the majority of Biden's term. But Gaza has been a disaster that he continues to botch.
What's there to like? The further militarisation of the police? The expansion of Obama's child caging programme? Housing crisis? Funding Nazis in Ukraine?...
Generally he has leaned progressive when he can. He doesn't when he can't. That's literally all you can expect from him. I'd rather him win the election and continue to do as much good as he can than lose and let Trump do as much damage as he can.
That's a pretty damned huge exception. Also, the dumbass wall. Also a they're a lot less restrictive to asylum seekers. Also, he tried to undo Trump's covid immigration executive order, which got blocked by courts. Actually, they're quite different. In fact if you think Biden's policies are bad, you better hope and pray Trump doesn't get back in.
Less restrictive on Asylum seekers? They can't just cross the border anymore. The BP lets a small number in every day, leaving thousands of people at the mercy of Mexican drug cartels while they wait to cross. They wait to cross because Biden didn't restore the international standard of declaring asylum on the soil of the country in which you want asylum. Instead he's trying to force asylum seekers to use an app and visit American consulates in the country they need to flee. And forcing them to stay in the country they need to flee until we tell them it's okay to leave.
Nothing about this is humane or legal under our own laws or international treaties which we've signed and ratified.
Biden undid the covid order in a way he knew would be struck down by the courts. The exact same way we got Trump's muslim ban struck down. Unlike Trump's Muslim ban he did not try again until he also made the asylum policy above where anyone availing themselves of the old way gets summarily denied and deported.
He did all of this in plain view and you can't be assed to find the actual actions, just their PR releases.
It's not like the Dem base will switch their votes to Trump.
At this point, now that the nominees are decided, the political game is to attract the swing vote, which is mostly "tough on crime," anti-imigration, and anti-taxation (as it applies to them directly).
Even though none of these policies are actually good for those in the middle.
You'll still see things like student debt relief getting pushed. But something like immigration reform he has to do to get swing voters and hope his base understands. Otherwise he just won't have enough votes to win.
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.
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.
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.
No, pretty sure it's everyone who doesn't find supporting genocide a big enough deal to seek another path for the election. Everyone supporting Biden now is responsible for propping up a bad candidate.
Fair enough, trump's guys aren't coming for me first, they are coming for the Gaza protesters, they are coming for abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, they are coming exactly for the rights of people refusing to vote for Biden...it's sort of ironic. You can read what you are enabling here: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
If I had a vote, I'd be voting for the guy stopping trump from killing you, what else do you want me to do, if even you won't help yourselves in the simplest way possible?
You are enabling, your making the unacceptable choice. No candidate has any more privilege than another. Your making up a narrative, your being dishonest and your goal is cause harm.
But voting is literally how we decide who is in power, and it cost nothing. SCOTUS being hijacked by radicals is a direct result of the 2016 election. Everyone got together and decided (through the Electoral College) that Trump was the person to lead us. Everyone had a voice. Some chose not to use that.
Everyone got together and decided (through the Electoral College) that Trump was the person to lead us.
Gibberish. Everyone got together and decided that Clinton was the President, then the Electoral College overruled the democratic will of the majority and we got Trump anyway. Everyone has a voice. $ome voices matter more than others.
If the person who is better for the country loses then it is all of our faults. In a democracy it’s up to the citizens to know the candidates, understand the system and what people can and can’t do, understand how the election system works, and be aware of what the stakes are.
Political campaigns attempt to hold your hand and pull you in a certain direction because it’s in their best interest to do so, but the blame for what happens in January 2025 rests with all of us.
You're saying "vote for my guy or else" and then acting like it's my fault hostage takers are going to execute me.
But also, that's complicated by the fact that America is a blight on the world. The world would literally be better off if this shit hole declines because it can't fuck with everyone else in the world anymore.
Israel, for instance, wouldn't be able to do genocide if the US was no longer able to provide weapons and protection.