Switching things up a bit from the “Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden” song and dance, the New York Times on Wednesday decided to credit Tom Suozzi and Democrats for weaponizing Congressional Republicans’ utter dereliction on handling the border in fealty to Trump, writing that Tuesday’s win “injected Democrats with fresh optimism that the party might have found some of the basic ingredients to neutralize immigration and the border as political issues, which party officials have privately seen as among their deepest areas of vulnerability in 2024.”
“We have now made the border an issue where Democrats are on their front foot, whereas before all this happened, we were on our back foot,” Chuck Schumer told the Times. “Trump almost handed us the issue on a silver platter when he said he didn’t want to do it for political purposes after saying the border is an emergency. [The border] has been turned from a negative issue to a positive issue. Not totally positive, but overall positive,” Schumer continued.