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37 days: Harris takes Trump to task over immigration. Nebraska springs a Senate surprise. The House starts to shift toward Democrats.
It is all happening at the same time.
Kamala Harris continues to redefine the Democratic Party.
She is discarding their tired old playbook of engaging with Republican talking points on their terms. President Biden and the Democrats have long known that Trump and the GOP would hit them hard on immigration. Instead of confronting them and pushing for a solution, they tiptoed around the issue, taking hit after hit, and then tried to fix it far too late.
The bipartisan immigration bill that Donald Trump tanked this year to boost his reelection chances had a decent chance of passing two years ago. Biden could have pursued it — or at the very least, tried and failed. That would have lessened the impact of Trump’s attacks. Even then, there was no reason for the Democrats to play the underdog on immigration. But for some reason, they did just that.
In four years, how many times did the President visit the border? I think he did it twice. Avoiding an issue as significant as immigration was not going to help; it was only going to hurt, and that is exactly what President Biden got. It was a strategic mistake. Kamala Harris has…
