[obpe]

I don't think that is the case. According to pre-election polling more than 50% of voters said the economy was their biggest concern and only 25% said immigration. And the Democrats were largely touting the status quo which cleary people do not want.

[rawgabbit]

Yes, the economy was issue 1A and immigration was 1B. If the Democrat power brokers would remove their head from the sand they would formulate a policy that addresses these issues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/trump-immigration-bord... Recent polling found that a majority of voters favored elements of Mr. Trump’s approach.

Fifty-seven percent of voters in a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in October said they supported deporting immigrants living in the country illegally, including about 30 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of independents.

Slightly more than half of voters nationally, including 20 percent of Democrats, said they supported a wall on the border with Mexico, a marked increase from 2016 and 2020, when about 40 percent supported building a wall.

“There is no constituency left in this country that favors large-scale immigration,” said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow with the Migration Policy Institute.”