This is the Tom Hartman program.

So Kevin McCarthy was down on the Southern border and he and a number of other Republican

members of Congress were just eager to get in front of the cameras.

I saw a couple of months CNN and talk about how, you know, the ice officials down here

are telling us that there's terrorists.

Some person named Sri Lanka is sending them in, yes.

And we've got a crisis here, it's terrible, it's terrible.

Now when Joe Biden became elected, I'm talking about back in November when the election was

declared for Joe Biden.

The few Republicans who actually acknowledged that he was going to be the president immediately

started attacking him.

And one of their main attacks, given that, you know, basically all the Republicans have

these days to sell is racism and grievance, was that Biden is going to let brown people

from south of the border come to America and, you know, break into your house, rape your

daughters and steal your jobs.

All right, this, this, this, this is how Trump kicked off his election campaign in 2016.

It was the meme he was running in 2020.

And then when Biden won, it was Biden is going to open, you know, with open arms, he's going

to open the border.

And I can't tell you how many times, you know, I occasionally dip into writing, hey, radio,

just to hear what, you know, they're up to during the day and drop by Fox News.

And I can't tell you how many times I have heard just casual references to Joe Biden's

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