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to let a half million people who are not american citizens stay within the united states. there are rules. well get into it. another aggressive election year action by biden on immigration after three years of biden doing nothing or potentially making things worse with his policies. im harris faulkner and are you in "the faulkner focus." border security and immigration are top concerns among voters. we know this. sometimes they ratchet to first place above the economy. weve seen that. ...

Percent to his 22%. thats a real problem for the florida governor. keep to his election argument has this argument of effectiveness, and hell take that same sort of discipline to the white house, but we see republicans, at least in the "new york times" poll saying not so. they still see the former president as being more -- a more effective leader. still, though, we see all of these candidates trying to sort of cautiously take on the former president. lets take a listen. >> by the time we get on...

Whats right. >> why is this something hes focusing in on now? >> well, this has been core to his election argument for months. he has been talking about transgender athletes and you know, this is really prominently featured in this sort of republican culture war. trans folks will say we dont want to be the center of this conversation. actually being the center is dangerous to us. but listen, wolf. there are limits to this election argument. this is a play for the base, but its hard to imagine wh...

Democratic vote and then also when youre thinking about confirmation of judges. president biden being able to move his appointees through, that helps as well. but also i think its important for the state of georgia. you know, senator warnock and herschel walker have been running their campaigns very differently. theyre very different candidates. and really key to senator warnocks re-election argument is that he is willing to work with republicans, right? we are living in a very polarizing time, ...

At the university of georgia. its a homecoming from him. he is where wrightsville but is here in athens where his football career was launched and he has made this football a sort of key to his election argument that he didnt go the standard political route, he is not a standard politician. he tried to tie democratic senator raphael warnock, his opponent, the incumbent, to president bidens economic policy and the biden agenda. senator warnock has argued that walker is not fit to serve in the uni...

Crucial, so critical to his election argument. but to be clear, he does not have the power with his badge to arrest anybody, pull anybody over. it is really ceremonial in nature. >> herschel walker moments ago responding yet again to allegations that he paid a former girlfriend to get an abortion. can you tell us what he said, eva? >> reporter: hes telling nbc basically much of the same, brianna. he is again denying these core allegations that he paid for a former girlfriends abortion and encour...

Political purposes. the taxpayers should not have to pay. he says everything should move quickly and then withholding the articles of impeachment while everyone is away for their vacation, what do you think? >> republicans have leaned so heavily on this year before an election argument. they did it with the merrick garland nomination, the last year of obamas term then with impeachment. its not a substitute for election, a device members can use or not use any time in a presidents material. in te...

Term. its also closely related to the youre going to nullify the 2016 election argument, which doesnt make sense when you consider that richard nixon resigned rather than be impeached less than two years after he won a massive 49-state landslide. number two, democrats have been trying to impeach trump says day one or maybe even before. >> the impeachment is a hoax. its a sham. it started a long time ago, probably before i came down the escalator with the future first lady. >> before he came down...

Beyond that dynamic, 45% to 38% split is more or less where the country has been on trump all along. in fact, theres been a larger percentage of people who disapprove of president trumps performance in office than 45%. they havent gotten the full anti-trump electorate behind the impeachment effort. the calculation nancy pelosi made earlier is the house could impeach him on a party line vote and the senate would acquit him. and the president would use that as an effective election argument. that ...

He will give them somerset fits. >> he is an independent from vermont. this is a recurring criticism of the clinton administration. right. were too close to wall street and if and i do believe this if you think the 2016 election argument is going to turn on inequality as well this is a powerful argument. its been made before. there is a very large audience inside the democratic party that is predisposed to believing this about the clintons. >> she seems to understand that. in the des moines regi...