Un-Popularity Contest

(Un-Popularity Contest)

It is common knowledge that partisan advocacy not-withstanding, people are generally not enthusiastic about the choice for President. A Biden-Trump re-match is not considered desirable. That being said, both Biden and Trump are making campaign stops on the southern border. Biden because illegal immigration is becoming a problem for the Biden Administration and Trump will be giving his own remarks.


President Biden is in Brownsville today. It is known that Biden's handlers are loathe to have the President in public but that was before the murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley by an illegal alien from Venezuela. Riley is dead because of open-border policy of the Administration. Riley's death is just collateral damage. In any event, Biden will be speaking with border patrol officials, law enforcement and other local officials. One can suppose that whatever "Executive Action" Biden is considering will come from these meetings. Biden will continue to press for the dead Senate border bill and wish House Republicans would be more bi-partisan. And the tooth fairy should pay more, inflation be damned.


For his part, Donald Trump will be speaking from Eagle Pass. That is about a five-hour drive from Brownsville but considering the distance between the two, the length might as well be all the way to Mars. That being said, Eagle Pass is far removed from New York where the former President is appealing the $350+ million civil fraud judgement.


Between this Biden photo op in Brownsville and the Trump gathering in Eagle Pass, there is a reason neither man is too popular. What is clear is that the border crisis has become a campaign issue and that has placed the state of play in a matter of flux. Which candidate can best speak to the issue should have the advantage.

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