Will A Second Trump Term Fix the Border Crisis?
WSJ Opinion: Free Expression
Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal
4.6 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Boardrooms love buzzwords. |
| 0:01.9 | AI, climate, resilience. |
| 0:03.7 | But what do they actually mean for CFOs and execs trying to survive the next earnings call? |
| 0:08.3 | That's where the pre-read comes in. |
| 0:09.8 | Real experts and real talk. |
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| 0:17.1 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker. |
| 0:24.3 | Hello and welcome to the Free Expression podcast from the Wall Street Journal. I'm Jerry Baker, |
| 0:29.3 | editor at large of the journal. If you're not already a subscriber, please do sign up to Free Expression |
| 0:33.6 | wherever you do your podcast listening. This week, Donald Trump's legal problems may be deep, |
| 0:39.3 | but his political prospects seem to be improving all the time. Current polling shows him ahead of |
| 0:44.8 | President Joe Biden in the national race, and with a small but consistent lead in polls of the |
| 0:49.8 | key swing states in November. So just five months away from the election, a second Trump term |
| 0:54.5 | looks increasingly probable. So this week, and from time to time over the next few months, |
| 1:00.0 | we're going to take a look at what a second Trump administration might look like. What would he |
| 1:04.2 | try to do in key policy areas? Who might staff his administration? What challenges is he likely |
| 1:09.4 | to have to confront? We're starting this week with |
| 1:11.6 | what may be both a key reason for his current polling success and the biggest immediate |
| 1:16.8 | policy challenge he'll face if he is elected. That's immigration. In three and a half years of the |
| 1:22.6 | Biden administration, America's southern border has been more porous than at any time in modern history. |
| 1:26.9 | Estimates vary, but certainly people agree that many millions of migrants have entered the |
| 1:31.0 | US illegally to live and work here in the last three years. So what will Donald Trump do to fix |
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