'This is an area that Democrats have really left for Republicans to define, unnecessarily.'
Share on linkedin Reps. Angie Craig and Hillary Scholten. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, going on offense to try to blunt Republican attacks on a central 2024 election issue."I am personally encouraged, as someone who has been talking about immigration for two election cycles," Rep. Hillary Scholten , a former immigration lawyer, told Axios.
The memo, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, says Democrats are "going on the offensive against disingenuous far-right political attacks" by highlightingof leaning into immigration in a February special election to replace former GOP Rep. George Santos, as well as polling that shows the border deal was broadly popular with voters.
Scholten also said it's been a "huge issue" among her constituents, adding that there's "almost no stakeholder group that comes through my office that doesn't talk to me about the importance of immigration reform."Republicans are scoffing at the strategy. "Most folks see the President's border disaster and know better. Trump took action where Biden has refused to," swing-district Rep. Don Bacon told Axios.
Another swing-district Republican, Rep. John Duarte , said immigration will "severely damage Joe Biden's re-election" and that the president "has no good options remaining on his border fiasco." National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Will Reinert, pointing to Democrats' votes against GOP immigration bills, said if they want to "turn up the volume" on the issue, "we are happy to blow out their eardrums with their own votes."Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is discussing holding another vote on a bipartisan border compromise that
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