Most presidential candidates are siding with immigrants at the risk of alienating swing voters in key states won by President Trump in 2016.
By Michael Scherer Michael Scherer National political reporter covering campaigns, Congress and the White House Email Bio Follow April 17 at 6:00 AM Ohio Rep.
The numbers help explain Trump’s own strategy of fanning fear about immigration, while creating controversy around the issue that tends to enrage Democratic voters. In a typical provocation, Trump said Friday he was considering releasing detained immigrants in liberal cities, as punishment for Democratic refusal to change immigration laws. A few weeks earlier, he labeled Democrats the party of “open borders, drugs and crime.
A January Quinnipiac poll, moreover, found that 5 percent of Democratic voters agreed with the unsupported claim that undocumented immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than American citizens. That compared with 24 percent of independent voters and 39 percent of white voters without college degrees.
The divergence between the party’s immigration pitch and stubborn general-election realities could create challenges for the party, particularly in the Great Lake states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, which were all won narrowly by Trump in 2016. “To push back against just what are clearly racist motives of some, we can’t label everybody who is disturbed by immigration as racist,” he said.
For those Democrats seeking to improve margins among white voters in the Midwest, the 2018 midterms appear to show a path. It’s a shift some candidates have gingerly begun to make. Former congressman Beto O’Rourke said weeks before announcing his presidential bid that he wanted to take down the border barriers that divide Mexico and the United States. More recently, he has shifted his position.
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