It looked like progressive Chris Rabb had a mountain to climb to win the Democratic nomination for a congressional district in Philadelphia.
The mayor and the city’s Democratic Party had endorsed another candidate in this week’s primary. So had members of Pennsylvania’s delegation in the U.S. House. One Rabb rival was backed by millions of dollars. A second benefited from a get-out-the-vote operation run by the influential local building trades unions.
But Rabb finished 15 percentage points ahead of his closest competitor in Tuesday’s election, and the state representative is likely on his way to Washington because no Republican sought the GOP nomination.
Rabb was propelled by a constellation of progressive groups, charting a path to victory partly by assailing his own party as listening more to donors than voters. He credited a grassroots movement inspired by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, alarmed by Republican President Donald Trump and hungry for a government responsive to their needs.
“That was at the heart of why I was running and that is what I built my campaign around and that, I believe, is a chord we struck in this electorate that showed up and came out like gangbusters,” Rabb said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The progressive left counts Rabb’s success as one of its biggest victories of the year and the latest warning sign that Democratic voters see the party’s leadership as weak and feckless in countering Trump. Progressives are also running for House seats in New York, California and Michigan where they are challenging Democratic incumbents or aiming to take on vulnerable Republicans.
To the contrary, you said that US immigration policy never changed but enforcement measures did. So, the question, is why didn’t Biden implement enforcement measures to stop the flood of illegal migrants? Trump has been able to stop them; there is no reason Biden couldn’t.
Mon frer, you made the extraordinary claim. You need to supply proof. I won’t count that as strike two (which is good, that one rhymes with pobotomy, and you don’t need any more help in that category)
Proof of what? That Biden allowed illegal migrants to flood across the border?
Open border policy. Show when it took effect and when Trump stopped it. Fox cannot be a source
Biden didn’t officially have an open border policy, but he permitted illegal migrants to flood across the border. From https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/21/texas-migrants-busing-cost-greg-abbott/
In April 2022, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced his state was going to start transporting to other states migrants who had been released from federal custody. He said he was doing it to prevent the state from shouldering “the burdens imposed by open-border advocates in other parts of the country.”
Nearly two years later, Texas has transported more than 102,000 migrants to New York, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Yes, that isn’t proof. Congrats! You’re maybe starting to see. Abbott’s stunt was a stunt meant to force the “immigrants are surging” narrative, not actual needed policy changes to address an issue. Find. Proof. That. Immigrants. Surged. As. A. Result. Of. Biden’s. Policies. You have one chance left (reminder, pemical pastration)
If it was just a stunt, there would be few migrants to send. Don’t you remember illegal migrants flooding El Paso? See https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/el-paso-migrants-border/
That’s an anecdote and not proof of your claim! DHS estimated 11.4 million undocumented migrants in the US in 2022. A 100,000 in Texas could’ve been there FOR YEARS. You need evidence (numbers, data, studies on policy impacts, fuck even a changed policy) that what you’re saying is true. This is all “action” taken “in response” but that isn’t PROOF that the thing itself was happening. I could go out to my yard and burn all of the grass because “grass killed my mother”. My burning of the grass isn’t evidence that grass killed my mother. Do you understand the disconnect?