Texas' Republican Gov. Greg Abbott told Newsmax on Wednesday that the border policies of President Joe Biden are causing him to lose support, even among the nation's Democrats.
"It could be that [Biden's] advisers have him on a [political] suicide mission," Abbott said during "Rob Schmitt Tonight" on Wednesday. "He is tanking in the polls. He's extraordinarily underwater, in his polling data on the border, on the economy. But his border strategy is turning off people, including Democrats in Texas, Democrats in New York, [and] Democrats across the country. It's going to make it very easy for a Republican to win the presidency."
Abbott said that he wonders just how much Biden knows what is really going on at the border, where record numbers of illegal migrants continue to surge.
"Candidly, you have to wonder, What does he really know is going on?" Abbott asked. "He's hardly been to the border. His 'border czar' [Vice President Kamala Harris] hasn't been there. He's being told by people like [White House press secretary] Karine Jean-Pierre that the border is closed. He's told by [Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas that the border is closed. And so, what does Joe Biden know, and what does he not know?"
Abbott said that despite what the president's perception of the problem is, there is a plan from progressives on the far-left side of the Democratic Party to keep the border open, that Biden may be "trying to appease" and to get these illegal migrants registered to vote in local elections.
"It's just outrageous," he said. "It is decimating our country, and that's exactly why Texas is trying to step up and stop it."
Abbott said that New York City's Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has come around to placing the blame for the surge of illegal migrants to that city on Biden's inaction with the border.
"They didn't come on their own. The way they got there was Joe Biden sent them," Abbott said. "What Mayor Adams' message already has been is the correct one, and that is holding Joe Biden responsible for this.
"It is only the chaotic policies of Joe Biden that has allowed New York to be overrun, Texas will be overrun, all these other cities to be overrun."
He said the only solution is to put the policies of former President Donald Trump back in place that resulted in a 40-year low of illegal migrants crossing the border.
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