As both presidential contenders take their fight to the border, Gallup reports immigration is the most important issue to voters.
Thursday always was going to end this way. Former President Donald Trump would show up at the Texas border, and he would be on fire, while President Joe Biden would try and fail to play catch up, having lost the support of voters who think he’s botched immigration bigly.
After all, Trump made plans to visit Eagle Pass last week, so that he could remind the public of the border’s sleepier days when he was in office.
Then Biden announced he would go to Brownsville on the same day, so he could showcase his reversal on immigration policy.
On the optics alone, Trump won the day.
The former president was in the thick of it, near an erstwhile border hot spot, at home with the men and women who put their lives on the line to enforce federal immigration law. And talking about the border in a way that resonates with American voters.
The current president has avoided the border for most of his presidency.
