SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

LATEST POLLING – PROBLEMS FOR BIDEN – FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER:   The Biden administration is failing big time with its inability to control illegal immigration, adding it to one of several issues that could doom Democrats if left unchecked.  In a new Harvard/Harris poll, an overwhelming 80% said that illegal immigration is a serious issue and one that needs more attention than President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris are giving it.  What’s more, 68% said that signals from Biden’s White House are encouraging illegal immigration and 55% believe that former President Trump’s border closing policies should have been left in place.  Pollster Mark Penn sized up the issue this way: “Immigration is boiling up as an issue.”  Add it to increasing voter concerns about inflation, taxes, the Critical Race Theory controversy, and this could be a summer of woe for Democrats. “These are not good numbers for Democrats,” said an adviser to House Republicans.  The fears of illegal immigration were a key part of Penn’s analysis of his June poll for Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies and the Harris Poll.  The president himself remains reasonably popular, scoring in the low fifties in most approval polls,  But his policies are increasingly seen as far too leftist for the public to bear.  Those policies, not the president's likability, will be the center of next year's elections, rapidly coming upon us.  Dems have reason to be concerned.  This is not a far-left or far-right country.  Go too far and the public generally pushes back toward the center.

June 26, 2021