2024 Congressional races

WestlinnDuck

Oregon Congressional District 5 will be a big election between first term soft Republican Hispanic Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Democrat Janelle Bynum, standard dem plus a black woman. The district carves OUT most of Portland and Salem and all of Eugene. Should be a solid Republican hold but as I said she is soft and tons of national dem PAC dollars are going into this race. Chavez-DeRemer ad so far talks about inflation and that she has unknown "bipartisan" plans to cut it and she supports a "Cut Red Tape" legislation. Very soft. Nothing about the other two big national issues, crime and the border. She is going to get a raft of attacks on abortion, which is embedded in Oregon. She needs to get out front and say she won't vote for a national abortion policy and that it is a state issue and then say her priority is going to be on government spending, crime and securing the border.

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Poll: Immigration, Crime Top Issues for Voters

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Democrats made these the top issues of the election.

Polling from Gallup shows that U.S. adults have consistently ranked immigration as a top issue every month since at least November 2023. The polls come as the Biden administration has overseen record numbers of illegal immigrant encounters.

Recent high-profile examples of crimes committed by illegal immigrants has led former President Donald Trump to popularize a new phrase, "Biden migrant crime," when addressing the issue.

"Biden Migrant Crime is out of control and is ravaging America! Last night, two brave NYPD officers doing their job were shot by a Monster Illegal Immigrant who came here illegally from Venezuela last year and was living in a tax-payer funded migrant shelter," Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier this month. "Crooked Joe Biden has trafficked in the worst people from around the world, many with heinous criminal records, and unleashed them into our communities."

Trump called the mother of migrant crime victim Rachel Morin. Biden not only didn't call her, but has not seen fit to say her name.

Another poll from earlier this year shows voters rejecting the media's preferred euphemisms for illegal aliens.

Since 2013, The Associated Press Stylebook has directed writers to only use the terms illegal immigrant, illegal alien, illegal or undocumented in direct quotations. "Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission," the Stylebook states.

However, a poll conducted by RMG Research, Inc. in February showed that 55% of voters said the "best way to describe people who cross the U.S. border without registering with immigration officials" is as "illegal immigrants." Meanwhile, 24% of respondents said the best term is "undocumented migrants."

Bill Maher says that Democrats' stance on immigration will get them "f*cked" on election day. Fun fact, I'm blocked by Bill Maher despite never having written to him or even written about him. (On Twitter, at least.)

Maher also called the Democrats "racist" for not listening to Latinos on the issue, as they support Trump over Biden on border security by 23 points.

Meanwhile, one of the two illegal aliens who murdered 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray simply cut his ankle monitor so he could leave his house to murder a child.

If he was so dangerous we put an ankle monitor on him, why was he in the country at all?