Ezra Klein

And he said, the main problem America has is bloodthirsty, murderous, illegal immigrants roaming the streets, causing havoc at will.

And Democrats who won't stand.

And the fact that neither of those things

is true.

Like, it's just not true.

Those are not the problems or the benefit.

It's not the structure of American life at this moment.

It's not what people feel.

It's not what people are reacting to.

It puts him and the Republican Party in a tough place.

I always just find it incredibly weird.

Not inexplicable because it comes from, I think, racism and certain highly ideological views he has about the world, but why he's always worried about murders committed only by a certain group of people as opposed to murder.

Right.

What I worry about is murders, total number of murders.

The chance that I get killed or somebody I love gets killed or that, frankly, anybody gets killed by anybody.

And he's right that murders are dropping.

And that's a thing to...

encourage and take credit for and you could give police agencies more money to solve murders that are outstanding right there's a lot you could do if you want to have like an anti-murder policy but to just be laser focused on murders by illegal immigrants is just a little bit odd because most murders are not committed by illegal immigrants what you were just saying about independence

I sometimes think about the Trump that I think could have been not at 41 percent in the polls right now, but at 48 or 51 percent.

Approval ratings, yeah.