From Fox News: Some leading Democrats are acknowledging that their party has failed when it comes to border security and messaging, according to a new report on Sunday from the New York Times.
“When you have the most Latino district in the country outside of Puerto Rico vote for Trump, that should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party,” said Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas.
The report highlighted that Gonzalez witnessed President Donald Trump “win every county in his district along the border with Mexico.” Gonzalez’s 34th district in Texas has swung dramatically from voting heavily Democratic in recent presidential elections to going in favor of Trump in 2024.
“This is a Democratic district that’s been blue for over a century,” Gonzalez told the Times.
The New York Times points to a Democratic primary debate in June 2019, when all but one of ten candidates on stage raised their hand in support of decriminalizing illegal border crossings. The Times writes:
Six years later, the party remains haunted by that tableau. It stands both as a vivid demonstration of a leftward policy shift on immigration that many prominent Democratic lawmakers and strategists now say they deeply regret, and as a marker of how sharply the country was moving in the other direction.
Last year, 55 percent of Americans told Gallup that they supported a decrease in immigration, nearly twice as many as in 2020, and the first time since 2005 that a majority had said so. The embrace of a more punitive approach to illegal immigration includes not only white voters but also working-class Latinos, whose support Democrats had long courted with liberal border policies.
“When you have the most Latino district in the country outside of Puerto Rico vote for Trump, that should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party,” said Representative Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, who saw Mr. Trump win every county in his district along the border with Mexico. “This is a Democratic district that’s been blue for over a century.”
Cecilia Muñoz, who led the Obama administration’s domestic policy council, admitted, “We, and I include myself in this, created a vacuum on this issue that we allowed the current president to fill. And the country is now living with the results. And the results are appalling.”
However, progressive Democrats remain defiant. “Democrats have to stop talking about the issue of immigration within a Republican frame,” declared Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). “This has nothing to do with law and order. This is about power, control, terror, and it is about racism and xenophobia. Donald Trump wants to make America Jim Crow again, and then some.”
CLICK HERE to read the NY Times article, as the outlet admits that Democrats’ radical open-borders policies was a political disaster for their Party.
The NYT finally admits the Democrats were wrong on the border
Can Democrats Find Their Way on Immigration? – The New York Times https://t.co/cj0p4COazo
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