Domenico Montanaro

So we've seen that where they've done that.

And when we look at whether or not this is strictly about immigration, it doesn't appear to be because Attorney General Pam Bondi

sent a letter to Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota detailing a list of demands, and that included turning over the state's voter rolls as one of the things that would be needed or wanted from the Trump administration in exchange for taking federal agents out of the state.

You know, that raises a lot of questions about whether this really has to do strictly with

with immigration or if it's about furthering Trump's goals and agenda like we've seen him do with private institutions.

And remember, elections in this country are decentralized for a reason.

Each state runs their own elections, whether you have a Republican or a Democrat running the election processes in those states, the secretaries of state.

That's why these elections are run by those officials, those local officials in those states.

Well, I mean when you talk about voters, we have to talk about which voters, right?

Because Republican-based voters, those who identify as MAGA, Trump voters, they're not likely to be swayed over anything, right?

I mean this is a group that is core, that is strong to Trump.

I remember a Republican strategist telling me.

In the 2016 election that most people have a slice of the pie, his slice of the pie is made of titanium.

OK, so you could cast that aside.

But when you're looking at moderates and especially Republicans who are running in these districts that are swing districts where moderates are going to decide those elections.

And when you think about Democratic moderates who would have been all for funding homeland security in general, you're seeing a lot of that middle sort of coalesce to say, you know, this isn't right.

This is going too far and they want de-escalation and a tamping down of the rhetoric at the very least.

Yeah, it's quite viable.

We could see a partial government shutdown by the end of this week because Democrats now are saying there's no way that they're voting for more DHS funding based on these kinds of tactics.

And they're trying to say they're going to do that, but then point the finger at Republicans and say if they want to include DHS funding in this spending package to keep the government open, then it's on Republicans.