{"id":1034470,"date":"2024-06-04T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1034470"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:28:32","slug":"trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-put-trumps-political-ambitions-over-border-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-put-trumps-political-ambitions-over-border-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: VP Contenders Put Trump\u2019s Political Ambitions Over Border Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As Donald Trump\u2019s veepstakes contenders remain unserious about doing anything to improve border security, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile President Biden is taking action to secure our border, Donald Trump\u2019s VP contenders put loyalty to him over supporting the toughest, fairest bipartisan border reforms in decades all because he told them to. Trump puts his own political ambitions ahead of the American people every chance he gets, with the unwavering support of his MAGA minions \u2013 but voters will reject his reckless political games on border security along with the rest of his extreme agenda at the ballot box this November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numerous Trump VP contenders backed Trump\u2019s demands to kill the bipartisan border security deal and pushed baseless lies about its provisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annie Karni, New York Times<\/a>: \u201cEndless loop: Tim Scott<\/strong> says he is opposed to the stand-alone foreign aid bill because \u2018we should first secure our southern border.\u2019 He opposed the deal that included efforts to do that, parroting Trump talking points that it didn\u2019t do enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance<\/strong><\/a>: \u201c[The bipartisan border security bill] does nothing to secure the border.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cRubio<\/strong>: Border Patrol union is wrong on immigration deal\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201c\u2018The sales pitch was made,\u2019 North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum<\/strong> said [about the bipartisan border security deal] at the National Governors Association\u2019s winter conference. \u2018I\u2019m not sure any minds were changed.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cDana Bash presses Gov. Kristi Noem<\/strong> on opposition to border deal\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediaite<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Sounds Pretty Good\u2019: Fox News Anchor Challenges Sarah Huckabee Sanders<\/strong> On GOP\u2019s Opposition to Border Deal\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melanie Zanona, CNN<\/a>: \u201cStefanik<\/strong>, a Trump ally & member of the House GOP leadership team, says the Senate\u2019s bipartisan border deal is an \u2018absolute non-starter\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cFox News Host Confronts [Byron Donalds<\/strong>] on ‘Killing’ Border Deal for Trump\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/strong> (R-Ga.) said her Republican colleagues in the upper chamber who are backing bipartisan immigration and funding legislation that is the subject of ongoing negotiations are \u2018willing to be traitors to our country.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediaite<\/a>: \u201cFox News\u2019 Martha MacCallum pushed back when Rep. Nancy Mace<\/strong> (R-SC) claimed she was against the newly released bipartisan Senate border bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivek Ramaswamy<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cThe border bill in Congress is a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans are adamantly opposed [to the bipartisan border security bill], like Sens. Tom Cotton, Mike Lee<\/strong>\u2026 and others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WKRN<\/a>: \u201cBlackburn<\/strong> to vote \u2018no\u2019 on bipartisan Senate border bill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThough [Katie Britt<\/strong>] helped negotiate a bipartisan border security deal, she ultimately voted against it after Trump signaled to congressional Republicans that no immigration policy should pass during the election year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s MAGA minions fell in line after he directed Republicans to tank the bipartisan border deal and do nothing to improve border security this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans Against Border Enforcement\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cTrump, House Republicans plot to kill border deal\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cTrump made this clear when he reportedly urged Republicans in Congress to turn against the bipartisan Senate border security bill scheduled for a vote Wednesday so that he could keep the issue alive through the presidential election.<\/strong> His supporters have largely fallen in line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump, who is hoping to make immigration a key plank of his presidential campaign, has suggested on Truth Social that approving additional resources for the border would make Republicans \u2018look bad.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cBorder Patrol Supports \u2018Strong\u2019 Immigration Deal. Republicans Don\u2019t Care\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cPlease blame it on me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI think [Republicans] are making a terrible mistake if they vote for the bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cThe border compromise would represent a dramatic change of immigration law on lines many Republicans have long supported.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two-thirds of Americans support the bipartisan border security deal that Trump directed MAGA Republicans to reject.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigator Research<\/a>: \u201cTwo in Three Americans Support the Bipartisan Immigration Deal\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo in three Americans supported the bipartisan immigration deal reached in the Senate, but that will not be taken up for a vote in the House. \u2026 On the Republican approach to the recent immigration package, Americans\u2019 greatest concerns are that they are focused on the wrong issues and playing politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe immigration deal earns support across party lines, including among three in four Republicans (net +58; 74 percent support \u201316 percent oppose), two in three independents (net +48; 64 percent support \u2013 16 percent oppose), and three in five Democrats (net +32; 59 percent support \u2013 27 percent oppose).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Way<\/a>: \u201cVoters like the deal, both as a whole and individual components. \u2026 <\/strong>Across the board, both swing and base voters are remarkably aligned in favor of the big security components of the deal\u2026 It\u2019s not just the tough on the border policies that voters like\u2014they also understand that a major piece of restoring order must be providing orderly pathways for people to come to this country in other ways.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Donald Trump\u2019s veepstakes contenders remain unserious about doing anything to improve border security, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cWhile President Biden is taking action to secure our border, Donald Trump\u2019s VP contenders put loyalty to him over supporting the toughest, fairest bipartisan border reforms in decades all because he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: VP Contenders Put Trump\u2019s Political Ambitions Over Border Security - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-put-trumps-political-ambitions-over-border-security\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-04T19:28:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-04T19:28:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/signal-2024-05-21-225610_002.png?w=780\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-put-trumps-political-ambitions-over-border-security\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-put-trumps-political-ambitions-over-border-security\/\",\"name\":\"Trump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: VP Contenders Put Trump\u2019s Political Ambitions Over Border Security - 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