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How does this play now in the context of Democrat losses in the House? The odds are that Republicans flip the House in 2022 but even so Biden's duties as the leader of his party dictate that he must do what he can to minimize losses. Does he jettison the AOC friendly policies on the border, the environment, etc. to try to prevent an (even worse) Dem bloodbath?

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October Surprise indeed.

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Who, the fuck, cares?

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Working class people whose wages are driven down when hundreds of thousands of desperate workers flood the labor force. Workers whose efforts to unionize are undermined by that endless flow of cheap, desperate labor. Already overwhelmed schools in poor districts who must take on hundreds of children here illegally, no questions asked. Cash-strapped ERs and urgent care centers which must do the same. That's who the "fuck" cares. The question is do you care more for keeping the price you pay for produce and night out more than you care about working class people?

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If Trump brings up the Biden Surge, Biden will bring up reverse migration: https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-than-coming-to-the-u-s/. He might also bring up how the US has screwed around with politics/leaders/invasions around the world and dumped C02 into the atmosphere for decades, both big factors on why people come here to escape.

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