Fox host confronts Republican with poll showing voters blame GOP for border

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-host-confronts-republican-poll-showing-voters-blame-gop-border-1940577

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  2. Remember when they voted against a border bill they wanted just so Biden wouldn’t get a win?

    They don’t want it fixed. It’s more important to them to use it as a talking point to attack democrats.

  3. Interesting that Bartiromo actually pushed back. The border has been a problem for decades. It is well past time to try something different instead of simply rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. We need to host a summit and bring in the presidents of Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. We can build the tallest walls, place thousands of troops along the border, and use drones and cameras to track those trying to cross illegally and it still won’t be enough. We have to get the other countries involved and incentivize them to stop the caravans.

  4. Border crossings are currently at lows not seen since the Covid era. Biden and Harris have worked to improve the situation with compassion, and they didn’t need a pandemic or family separations or a trillion dollar wall to do it. And they did it despite Trump torpedoing bipartisan legislation to strengthen the boarder all so that he could stoke xenophobic sentiment from his racist base.

  5. Like yeah…..

    We all saw what you did.

    Well…

    Except for Uncle Earl, who has FOX so far up his ass it looks like he has a tail.

  6. Because they already lost the ability to campaign on roe v wade, they can’t lose another campaign staple.

  7. GOP killed immigration reform that had bipartisan support until Trump told them to kill it so he could continue to rail against what we could have had but for Trump’s interference.

  8. Honestly- you simply cannot use falsehoods as justifications for your actions for an unlimited time. The natural progression of history is just to complicated to manage, when operating from a false premise, you must constantly invent new falsehoods to keep up with the natural progression of the truth. At some point it becomes impossible, the lies compound into an unmanageable mess that simply makes no logical sense. It’s why the GOP sound completely insane when they talk, there is no logical narrative that goes from A to B to C, just a spiderweb of various manipulations and falsehoods.

  9. >The congressman added: “But the only border bill we should be talking about right now is H.R 2, which actually passed the House last year. That bill, unlike the fake Senate border security bill that [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer couldn’t even get all Senate Democrats to support,

    which strikes to the heart of the matter, they can’t work in a multi party democracy to pass compromise legislation, only the legislation their donors wrote word for word.

  11. How do you counter the firehose of falsehoods from the GOP?

  12. Republicans don’t actually have a plan to fix anything, they want the problems of the country to win them the votes of the uneducated.

    They want to rip the scabs off our weakest areas and point at the wound so they can feed off the contributions.

  13. These asswipes have managed to make THE BORDER a constant fucking talking point. It’s exhausting. Most of the country doesn’t live on THE BORDER. I’ve got other very real problems, like childcare.

  15. GOP constantly lies even when one of their own, Lankford, points out the lie (re: 5,000 immigrant comment).

  16. As they should. In Texas here we’ve heard them bitch and moan about the border and do little to nothing about it

  17. I don’t get how everyone doesn’t see that if the border is a problem and dangerous as they say then they’re getting people killed by torpedoing the bill. Or it’s not dangerous and it’s all a big show. Either option should dissolve any trust they have in their party.

  18. The Republican talking points on the border are all rooted in such bullshit mischaracterizations and the media never challenges the most basic facts they get wrong and even repeats them

    This fking guy “the bill we were faced with was only going to ignore the first 5000, it was going to ignore the numbers”

    If by “ignore” you mean detain and process legal asylum claims that are required by law to be examined before we straight turn people away in violation of current law

    And then the other big lie they constantly spew unchallenged is that we have “open borders” and that the record numbers of border crossings under Biden are proof of that

    Except… the record figure they’re citing is the number of people apprehended trying to cross the border. If Biden did nothing but tighten border security, that number would go up. They could make the claim that some Biden policy is encouraging more people to attempt to enter the US, but more people being arrested trying and failing to cross is the exact opposite of proof that we have “open borders”

  19. Trump did say to blame him for not getting a border bill passed.

  20. Considering that the MAGATs tanked the toughest border bill in decades at the behest of Convicted Felon, there is no question that the GOP is to be blamed.

  21. What’s funny is, something like 75% of all illegal immigrants entered the country legally. The southern border isn’t the pressing issue when it comes to illegals.

  22. I don’t know why this (GOP killing the border bill) isn’t every ad in a swing state/ Biden blamed them at the SOTU and GOP Senators were nodding. One of them said “he’s right.” Just show that to these dumbass swing voters who pretend to care about this dumb issue

  24. Oh but conservatives are being clear; this all democrat’s fault because they purposely gave the GOP everything, knowing they would reject it per Trump’s orders.

    Otherwise, the democrats would have never agreed to everything.

    This is what we are dealing with in our country; deplorable weirdos.

    Both sides are not the same.

  26. Foxnews: Republicans are blaming you for the border crisis.

    Gop hack: And I said, I don’t care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I’m, I’m quitting, I’m going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler, and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler, then I’ll set the building on fire…

  27. The border bill was going to pass with overwhelming bipartisan support.

    If the media was doing its job the voters would realize it’s Trump that should be blamed the most. He’s the one who doesn’t want it fixed, who prevented it from being passed because he’s a selfish POS who doesn’t give a fuck about this country.

  28. Fear is all Trump and the GOP have. They know they are a dying party and are clinging desperately to power

  29. The Trumpist GOP is a populist party, and it’s a staple of populism to create a perceived crisis that you can then convince the common people that they need you to solve. The crisis doesn’t have to be real, and it usually isn’t. It just needs to be believable, to appeal to powerful fears shared by many.

    That explains a lot about GOP attitudes towards immigration. Illegal immigration is a real issue, but the GOP has spent tons of time and effort exaggerating its effects until Trumpists think it’s *the most important* issue. So the last thing they want to do is help curb illegal immigration under a Democratic administration. It *has* to be a Republican who fixes it, or their entire populist message falls apart.

  32. With Harris ahead of Trump in the polls, this may be a good time to get a border deal done with the GOP.
    Republicans may realize that they will never get a better deal if Harris is elected president.

    Of course, that will require GOP to be rational instead of being in a cult.

  33. Biden: “Folks listen, when the laws and funding are passed by Congress I’ll sign the bill.”

    Trump: “Congress, don’t pass the bill. Blame me. America will see how easily I can take something away that we’ve all been asking for.”

  34. I wish that reporters could just say, “look man, answer the fucking question or admit you dont have one.”

  35. >The congressman added: “But the only border bill we should be talking about right now is H.R 2, which actually passed the House last year. That bill, unlike the *fake* Senate border security bill…”

    I didn’t expect that this Burlison character would be a serious congressperson. Using the word fake like that is an obvious tell of how full of shit they are.

  37. Surprisingly bad answer. Would think they would be better prepared at some point.

  38. It is their fault. There were presented with one of the best border security bills we’ve seen in decades and they refused to vote on it because their fat, orange god told them not to.

  39. LOL seeing Maria pressing these issues; she’s completely disgraced herself. GOP has no border solution other than to “build the wall!!”

  40. So the Republicans have obstructed immigration reform for decades and now they are just waking up to this? JFC….

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