Biden surrogates slam Donald Trump ahead of border visit
By
Mabinty Quarshie
February 29, 2024 5:00 am
Members of President Joe Biden‘s reelection campaign preemptively excoriated former President Donald Trump ahead of dueling events Biden and Trump are holding at the U.S. southern border on Thursday.
Biden reelection national advisory board members Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Hispanic media director Maca Casado repeatedly slammed Trump over his scuttling of a $118 billion bipartisan border and foreign aid bill earlier this month.
“Trump’s need to boost his own fragile political ego has gotten us here with another manufactured logjam. A few weeks ago, there was a chance for a real breakthrough on immigration policy,” Pritzker said during a press call Wednesday afternoon.
“President Biden and congressional Democrats did what voters say they want from leaders. They sat down at a table with Republicans and negotiated a bipartisan compromise,” he continued. “But the same Republicans who helped write the thing and were prepared to vote for it suddenly opposed it. Why? Because Donald Trump told them to. Because Donald Trump doesn’t want a solution; he wants a campaign slogan.”
The comments are a sign of how Democrats, once mostly on the defensive on immigration, see the failed border deal as an opportunity to go on the offense against Republicans.
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