Emily Jashinsky

Now, this is how Democrats seem to be deciding to deal with the historic proportion of the Biden administration's immigration failure going into 2026.

They want to just say that it was bad.

that they need to distance themselves from it, bad.

The question then that you need to ask every Democrat is what is your policy?

What would you have done differently?

What do you believe a just immigration system looks like?

What would your administration have done differently than the Walz administration in Minneapolis?

There are questions that Democrats will end up sounding, no matter how hard they try, more like Jasmine Crockett than anyone else on if you pull poll at those threads, because fundamentally, their policy is not popular with the American people and it's not changing.

We don't really have evidence of substantive shifts in these policies.

And so that

That, for as nervous as Republicans should be, some of this should make Democrats nervous as well, because they are trying to work out what will be a politically palatable line of messaging in 2026.

And again, if Republicans play their cards correctly, they should be able to neutralize some of that, because at the end of the day,

These issues, whether it's race or immigration, the right now has the cultural momentum.

It's hard in a 2026 midterm election cycle that is probably heavily going to feature the economy to do that and healthcare to do that when Republicans refuse to come up with a coherent healthcare plan, put it on the floor and vote, get it through the Senate and then get the president to sign it.

So no excuse to them on that one, but

And there are ways, again, that Democrats' attacks on this can be neutralized because they're still not fixing some of the obvious, glaring, glaring problems.

Another thing J.D.

Vance said in his speech is, quote, we don't persecute you, this is his TPUSA AmFest speech, we don't persecute you for being male, for being straight, for being gay, for being anything.

The only thing that we demand is that you be a good or great American citizen.

Now, I'm talking about the politics of this, and obviously the substance and the politics overlap.