Dueling Border Trips for Joe Biden and Donald Trump

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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While visiting the U.S.-Mexico border on the same day, Biden and Trump each try to frame the immigration issue for the November election. Meantime, a federal judge blocks an effort by Texas to enforce its own immigration law. Plus, Congress manages to avert a government shutdown with short-term spending measures, as pressure rises on Speaker Mike Johnson over Ukraine aid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Alex Partners.
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0:20.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:27.6	President Biden and President Trump make dueling trips to Texas and the US-Mexico border as they each try to frame the immigration issue for the 2024 election.
0:32.1	Plus Congress again averts a government shutdown,
0:34.8	but only by kicking the deadline into March.
0:37.7	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.8	We're joined today by my colleague colleague editorial board member Kate Batchelder
0:44.4	Odell. Happy Friday to you, Kate. Thanks for having me, Kyle. So the news this week from
0:49.1	Gallup polling is immigration surges to top of most important problem list
0:55.0	the first time that has been the case since 2019.
0:58.0	28% of Americans now say that immigration is the most important problem facing the country.
1:04.7	Number two is government and by the way I love that the polling question just asked what's the most
1:09.5	important problem and one of the choices is the government.
1:12.6	But that's number two, then the economy
1:15.3	with 12% and inflation with 11%.
1:18.5	But don't say that our political leaders are not responsive
1:21.2	because on Thursday,
1:22.4	President Trump was in Eagle
1:23.8	past Texas and President Biden was in Brownsville Texas. Let's listen to clips of
1:29.1	a bit of what each of them said here is first President Trump.
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