Immigration in focus
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:26.5 | Today on the Playbook podcast, as Republicans cede the ground on immigration, Democrats try to turn around their own fumbles. |
| 0:35.6 | And we have exclusive polling in a policy rollout from searchlight |
| 0:39.3 | on how Democrats can do that. Hello, I'm Adam Wren. And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Monday, |
| 0:45.7 | March 23rd. Megan, welcome back. Did you have a good weekend? Thank you. I did. I enjoyed the |
| 0:53.0 | beautiful. I feel like we talked about the weather |
| 0:54.5 | every morning on this podcast, but the weather was so good here in D.C. Adam, it was like spring has |
| 0:59.4 | finally sprung. That's great. I am looking forward to the cherry blossoms soon. They're beautiful. |
| 1:05.5 | So beautiful. They're already starting. This is what we live for. The first story driving Washington's conversation today, |
| 1:12.6 | Republicans have ceded the ground on one of their best issues, immigration. Democrats are trying |
| 1:18.2 | to turn around their own fumbles and take it back. Megan, we got a fresh look this morning |
| 1:23.6 | as we enter week six of the partial government shutdown with DHS ground to a halt. But the |
| 1:30.3 | polling that we've got from Searchlight Institute, which is the self-described heterodox democratic think |
| 1:36.3 | tank headed and founded by Adam Gentleson, the former aide to Harry Reid, and also John Federman of Pennsylvania. And what this polling does is it undergirds |
| 1:48.1 | a new paper and program they're out with Megan this week that looks at all of the mistakes |
| 1:53.3 | that Democrats have made on immigration since the Biden presidency and lays out a path to turn |
| 1:59.5 | around Democrats dire polling on the issue of |
| 2:02.1 | immigration. We know from the latest CBS news polling that Donald Trump is now underwater |
| 2:07.0 | on the issue of immigration. And so Democrats say that they need to sort of triangulate him |
| 2:12.7 | and actually have a very tough on immigration message and take back this issue, but also kind of avoid the |
| 2:20.4 | false choice between the two parties right now. Republicans have deployed ice to the interior, |
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