The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is out with a new ad this week blasting Republicans for not legalizing amnesty with last week’s “border deal.” Republican candidates in tight races will have GOP Senate chief Mitch McConnell to thank.
On Wednesday, DSCC released a compilation of left-wing pundits mocking Republican senators who ultimately opposed a compromise border bill last week. The legislation failed a procedural hurdle for a vote on the Senate floor 49-50.
The $118 billion package combined wartime aid to Israel and Ukraine with funding for the border. The bill legalized 5,000 crossings per day and pushed asylum for all. Even Democrats who wrote the bill conceded that under it, “the border never closes.”
An utter disaster. Here’s a thread of the Dems bragging about what an open-borders victory this bill would be.
As Murphy puts it “The Border NEVER closes!” https://t.co/dvSbi6sp9O
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 5, 2024
Conservative lawmakers tanked the bill negotiated by Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford under McConnell’s leadership. The debacle gave Democrats ammunition to blast Republicans as apathetic on one of the top issues for voters headed into the fall elections.
“Now they had the opportunity to get a bill, a bipartisan bill, passed into law that would really do something about the crisis at the border,” says Democratic strategist Symone Sanders featured in the ad.
“Senate Republicans won’t secure the border,” the ad ends. “They won’t keep us safe.”
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