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Trump’s Immigration Strategy Is a Casualty of Covid-19
A new poll suggests the president has missed his moment.
Maybe not quite as powerful as he’d hoped.
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President Donald Trump may have surrendered in the war on the coronavirus — he is “bored” by it, according to an aide to Texas Governor Greg Abbott — but he has not relented in his war on immigration. Yet his indifference to the virus, a new poll suggests, may have undermined his assault on immigrants.
A memo from Hart Research Associates includes these key findings of a survey of 1,011 registered voters, conducted June 30 to July 5 for the Democratic-allied CAP Action Fund: