Julie Hirschfeld Davis
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And lots of issues at play, all of which we've been talking about.
But yeah, I think in general, there is a pretty good possibility that all of the chaos and disruption that those raids have had, the fear that's been sown in some of these communities, is showing up in some of these results.
Not least because the overarching goal of...
why President Trump said he wanted to do this, lowering crime and getting people out of this country who shouldn't be here, people are not feeling the positive impact that he may have promised.
And all they're seeing is these very aggressive and in some cases brutal tactics in their cities, in their towns.
And I think it's very possible that that's having an impact on how people are evaluating both parties right now.
The only people who have been saying that to the president much this year have been Democrats in Congress who have been watching with increasing alarm as he imposes tariffs, tries to make unilateral moves on spending.
But it was really striking to hear the justices themselves voice those concerns.
Incidentally, this has been a concern rising on the Republican side as well.
The Senate's taken three different votes on ending various tariffs that President Trump has imposed.
All of them passed, but none of them have a chance of being enacted, of course, because the House is not going to take them up and President Trump certainly won't sign them.
But what they are is a very clear sign that there is rising unease, even on the Republican side, with the president taking this power away from Congress and using it himself in ways that many of them are concerned are really going to hurt their constituents.
The filibuster is relevant here because the Democrats are blocking passage of a bill that would reopen the government, which needs 60 votes because the filibuster allows any senator to block action on any bill unless the proponents can get 60 votes to let it move forward.
Right now, the Republicans don't have those votes.
There are only three members of the Democratic caucus who have been voting for a spending bill.