The former vice president has been trying to balance between liberals demanding more welcoming politics and moderates who may consider restrictions in a bad economy.
President Trump’s sudden announcement that he would bar immigrants from entering the country could present a challenging proposition for probable Democratic nominee, potentially thrusting him back into a tug of war between a Democratic base firmly opposed to stricter border policies and more-moderate voters willing to consider them, particularly during an economic calamity.
“We always knew that Trump was going to focus on immigration and that was a battle that we were going to have to engage in,” said Rep. Filemon Vela , an early supporter of Biden’s campaign. “But I think the public fears coronavirus a whole lot more than they do immigrants. So, I don’t think it’s anywhere near the winner politically that Trump and his surrogates think it is.”
. “I will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the United States,” Trump said during a White House briefing Tuesday.“President Trump’s immigration policy just makes sense as the United States fights the war against the coronavirus. He has two main goals: to protect the health and safety of Americans and to safeguard the economy,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said in a statement.
Many Democrats have been hoping to use this fall the moderate strategy that won them the House. Party leaders see Biden, who has charted a moderate course in recent years, as an effective leader in that fight. Someas candidates whom Biden ultimately defeated competed to propose more and more liberal border policies.
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