“No doubt many will also make the contrast that the vice president has not made that trip.”Īlabama Republican Katie Britt recently cut a TV ad from the border for her Senate bid, despite her home state being well over 700 miles from Mexico. “Illegal immigration is an issue that is doing well in polls and there’s no better way to show you are concerned about that issue than going to the border,” Republican admaker Vinny Minchillo, who is based in Texas, told Score. What’s notable now is that candidates, mostly Republicans, are traveling to the border to make their point, going beyond stock footage to pledge in-person that they will finish former President Donald Trump’s border wall.

Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), one of the most vulnerable lawmakers up for reelection this fall, is facing blowback for her own border visit. More than three-quarters of Republicans - 77 percent - strongly disapprove of Biden’s immigration moves, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted at the beginning of April.Įven some Democrats are turning on the administration over its decision to end a Trump-era border restriction next month, called Title 42, for migrants encountered at the southern border. President Joe Biden’s most unpopular policy moves are related to immigration. Republicans running in GOP primaries are using the southern border as the setting for campaign ads - regardless of how far their home states are from Mexico. | Eugene Garcia/AP PhotoīORDER PATROL - The border between the United States and Mexico is becoming a popular campaign ad backdrop this midterm cycle.

A pair of migrant families from Brazil passes through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum on June 10, 2021.

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