Dan Pfeiffer

That's the message.

Yeah, I mean, I guess I kind of sort of understand...

what might possibly resemble a strategy here, which is to basically take Ronald Reagan's welfare queen strategy of the 80s and then marry it with immigration.

But it's not to be done in a particularly coherent way.

And it's not – most people don't really know what they're talking about.

Those are things that are not necessarily connected to each other.

It's more sort of like – and you can really see this when you read the speech.

It is just a series of comments on viral stories in the right-wing media stitched into a speech.

masquerading as something of a message.

And this is one of them, right?

They're fascinated by it.

Nick Shirley was at the State of the Union, I believe.

The guy who originally had the reporting, and I'm doing air quotes for the audio listeners, about this.

And so I don't... This is, I get, they don't have a particularly strong hand to play.

I don't think this is better than the other things they're doing, but I think this is probably something that J.D.

Vance...

once.

I think that's why Trump gave it to him.

I think that's why he's here.

Maybe he thinks it's good for the Republicans, but I think he thinks it's probably good for himself because the Minnesota fraud, immigrant fraud, bullshit narrative they spin is a thing that excites the right-wing media people and the far-right podcasters and megatypes that J.D.