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Biden Does NOT need a BILL to close the border
He only needs a PEN. Thats all he needed to open it.
Thats all he needed to close it. Thats all Trump needed.
Maybe this is just Proof Trump is better than Biden.

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wvit1001
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« on: 01 12, 19, 12:27:06:PM » Reply

The Great Shutdown Showdown of 2019 has shown more clearly than anything before the central reality of Donald Trump’s presidency: He does not lead a country; he leads a movement.
Trump is president of the Republican base. He knows how to make his most passionate supporters vibrate like the reed of a clarinet. And they have the same effect on him.
wvit1001
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« Reply #1 on: 01 12, 19, 12:31:54:PM » Reply

So why is Trump so intransigent on a wall that was broadly understood, even by a large share of his supporters, to be a pipe dream — or, as Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) put it, merely “a metaphor for border security”?

Trump, it should never be forgotten, is a president who was put in office with just 46 percent of the popular vote. He won not on breadth of his support, but on its depth in aggrieved pockets of the electorate.

“He believes the immigration issue is the heart of his emotional relationship with his base, and he’s right about this,” notes William A. Galston of the Brookings Institution. “He believes, not entirely incorrectly, that almost anything he would do to expand his appeal would dilute his relationship with his base. He is not going to take any chances with it.”



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-the-president-of-the-republican-base--not-the-country/2019/01/11/3862aa9c-150f-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.c11316daf7dc
dont-blameme
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« Reply #2 on: 01 12, 19, 12:34:43:PM » Reply

Ok wvit if you believe that then Obama was only a president to those that supported him! I notice you link to the WP  A very outspoken hater of trump, but you are fair and open minded aren't you!
wvit1001
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« Reply #3 on: 01 12, 19, 12:38:55:PM » Reply

what's this got to do with anything Obama did or didn't do blammey?   after going on three years out of office you still seem hung up on our first black president for some reason.
chuck_curtis
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Let's go Brandon!


« Reply #4 on: 01 12, 19, 12:40:18:PM » Reply

The overwhelming majority of Americans recognize illegal immigration is a problem.
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« Reply #5 on: 01 12, 19, 12:40:28:PM » Reply

wvit now say Trump really wasn't elected by the people hillary got more votes so she should be president, wvit is another socialist leaning communist that doesn't like how we elect presidents.
dont-blameme
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« Reply #6 on: 01 12, 19, 12:42:20:PM » Reply

Now wvit takes to lying by claiming obama was black and not mixed race, the truth is nowhere to be found in wvit.
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« Reply #7 on: 01 12, 19, 12:42:20:PM » Reply

Trump is the president of the Republican base — not the country


   
No - Donald J Trump is President of this Country. He is your President.   :- )
Your personal feelings over that does not matter one iota.
 
wvit1001
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« Reply #8 on: 01 12, 19, 12:45:25:PM » Reply

He is my president.   Most all Americans are against this shutdown and want the Senate to do it's job and vote to open the government.

why won't they?
dont-blameme
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« Reply #9 on: 01 12, 19, 12:47:00:PM » Reply

It's very simple build the wall provide the added security to the southern border. why were the democrats for a wall until Trump was elected?

by the way wvit you just posted that Trump wasn't your president!
wvit1001
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« Reply #10 on: 01 12, 19, 01:18:20:PM » Reply

you just say the same thing over and over again blammey.   thing is it's not true, you know it's not true and yet you still say it.   
dont-blameme
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« Reply #11 on: 01 12, 19, 01:29:10:PM » Reply

So you're claiming the democrats wasn't for a wall before trump was elected?
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