REDSTATE | Published November 29, 2024
It’s amazing, but once in a while, even the most partisan, hidebound politicians can be smacked in the face by reality — and smacked so hard, so repeatedly, that they are forced to admit that they fouled up. That’s what’s happening with a group of Senate Democrats, who are finally admitting that their party is responsible for the oozing sore that is our southern border.
This is known as belaboring the obvious.
Democratic senators are privately acknowledging that their party committed “political malpractice” by bungling the issue of border security, which they view as a driving factor behind President-elect Trump’s sweeping victory and their loss of four Senate seats.
Democratic senators had a long and intense conversation about what went wrong in this year’s election during a recent lunch meeting in the wood-empaneled Mansfield Room just off the Senate floor.
The “long and intensive” conversation about what went wrong with Democrats this year could have encompassed a level of time measured on the geologic scale; they could have saved time by noting what, for instance, the Harris campaign did right, a conversation that would encompass approximately six minutes, five minutes and 48 seconds of which could be spent discussing the vice president’s makeup artist.
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THE HILL | Published November 29, 2024
Democratic senators are privately acknowledging their party committed “political malpractice” by bungling the issue of border security, which they view as a driving factor behind President-elect Trump’s sweeping victory and their loss of four Senate seats.
Democratic senators had a long and intense conversation about what went wrong in this year’s election during a recent lunch meeting in the wood-empaneled Mansfield Room just off the Senate floor.
Senators at the meeting offered a variety of theories about why their party got routed on Election Day, despite what many of them see as President Biden’s impressive accomplishments and the strength of the economy.
Many Senate Democrats think voters’ sour views about Biden’s record was driven by their anger over rising costs. That was probably the biggest factor behind Trump’s victory, they say.
But there’s a growing feeling among Democratic lawmakers that the Biden administration completely mismanaged the huge surge of migrants across the southern border and that this also hurt their party dearly.
“We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were entirely predictable and entirely manageable. We utterly mismanaged that issue, including our Democratic caucus here,” one Democratic senator told The Hill.
“That’s political malpractice. That’s not someone else’s fault. That’s not the groups pushing us around,” the lawmaker added.
Some Democrats think Biden made a huge mistake in May 2023, when he lifted Title 42, the emergency health order Trump had put in place to block migrants from entering the country to seek asylum. Biden’s decision allowed millions of migrants to stay in the country while their asylum cases slowly moved through the courts.
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