Dems finally admit Biden botched border after 2024 election loss: ‘We destroyed ourselves’

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-30 03:15:44 | Updated at 2024-11-30 05:44:29 2 hours ago

Dems finally admit Biden botched border after 2024 election loss: ‘We destroyed ourselves’
https://nypost.com ^ | 11/29/2024 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 11/29/2024 7:09:09 PM PST by bitt

WASHINGTON — Democrats spent Thanksgiving eating crow — privately confessing that President Biden’s handling of the border crisis fueled voter outrage and the Republican sweep of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

Lawmakers, aides and sources close to powerful Dems finally admitted after President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Biden’s successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, that the party’s permissive lurch on the border helped doom them in 2024.

“We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were entirely predictable and entirely manageable,” a Democratic senator confided to The Hill under the condition of anonymity.

“We utterly mismanaged that issue, including our Democratic caucus here. That’s political malpractice. That’s not someone else’s fault. That’s not the groups pushing us around.”

A source close to New York City Mayor Eric Adams also told The Post that fellow Democrats should have listened to him after he “warned for two years” that a porous border “would overburden cities and alienate working class people — and they did not listen.”

A House Democratic source suggested to The Post that the only way forward would be for party bosses “to get back to basics and simply admit to the American people ‘crime and illegal immigration are bad.'”

Trump campaigned on launching a mass-deportation effort, though he emphasized that his first targets would be those convicted of crimes — an initiative that polling showed a majority of Hispanic voters support.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024election; biden; dems

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1 posted on 11/29/2024 7:09:09 PM PST by bitt

To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

2 posted on 11/29/2024 7:09:22 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)

To: bitt

Starmer said it was an open border experiment that failed while blaming it on Brexit.

3 posted on 11/29/2024 7:11:32 PM PST by RummyChick

To: bitt

Don’t tell them it was also:

Crime
Inflation
Wars

4 posted on 11/29/2024 7:11:52 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (NOT TIRED OF WINNING!)

To: bitt

You arseholes didn’t destroy yourselves. YOU DESTROYED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. SUPPORTING APPROXIMATELY 35 TO 50 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS IN NOT SUSTAINABLE FOREVER. America is sunk.

5 posted on 11/29/2024 7:13:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (In 2022, 613,383 Americans died by abortion. In the same year 19,651 died by firearms.)

To: Uncle Miltie

The Dems also started World War T.

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6 posted on 11/29/2024 7:13:27 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)

To: bitt

Biden destroyed the border intentionally, according to Trump’s pick for the new border czar. Probably just out of spite, because Biden is such a spiteful and stupidly arrogant person.

To: bitt

“We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were entirely predictable and entirely manageable”

BS BS BS...what he really wanted to say is “We couldn’t get enough of these illegales to vote. We filled out their voter registration cards for them, we filled out their ballots for them, but we couldn’t deliver those ‘votes.’ Those rascally Republicans were onto our tricks, used the courts against us (they used OUR dirty tricks!), and shut us down almost everywhere we tried to cheat.”

8 posted on 11/29/2024 7:13:45 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)

To: bitt

New York City Mayor Eric Adams also told The Post that fellow Democrats should have listened to him after he “warned for two years”

I don’t recall his warning. Maybe he didn’t say it.

9 posted on 11/29/2024 7:15:30 PM PST by Redcitizen

To: bitt

Those scummy traitors would still be complicit had the rats won.

10 posted on 11/29/2024 7:15:36 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)

To: bitt

We utterly mismanaged that issue

I really hate those people. Their actions caused deaths and life destruction, yet all they see it as is an "issue".

11 posted on 11/29/2024 7:15:38 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)

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