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Migs's avatar

Fair. Not sure how much difference it would have made. I just don’t think saying it is what people want. They want it to be solved and when it isn’t they blame the president. Unfair but it is what happens.

I just don’t think people care as much as we would like to believe about saying whatever. I think they want it fixed and there were never anyway to get congress to pass immigration legislation. Unfortunate for sure. It was also a problem for Trump and Obama and bush 2 and Clinton.

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SandyG's avatar

The difference it would have made would have been to dilute the immigration issue, maybe enough to win the EC.

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Migs's avatar

That’s theory but no evidence that it’s true. They literally tried to pass a bill 7 months ago that gave almost everything the republicans want and they said no. Harris/biden have been messaging on it that they wanted to fix it. If your hypothetical was true then it would have worked. It hasn’t because the problem isn’t fixed.

Progressives don’t care that Biden tried to forgive their student debt. They are pissed he didn’t do it. I just don’t think there is much evidence that rhetorical statements make much a difference.

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