Chuck Schumer is facing an uphill battle to hang on to Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate.
With Joe Manchin’s retirement all but guaranteeing a Republican victory in West Virginia, the GOP only needs to flip one other seat to take back the Senate.
And the White House hit the panic button over the nine words this top Senate Democrat told voters about Joe Biden.
President Joe Biden opened up the border to a massive influx of illegal aliens on his first day in office.
As a result, record numbers of illegal aliens are flooding the border on a daily basis.
Since February 2021, more than 7.5 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S. – and that’s only those Border Patrol has encountered, not all those who slipped in undetected.
“From February 2021 through February 2024, Biden has overseen nine million encounters at the nation’s borders — more than 7.4 million of which occurred at the southern border,” Breitbart reported. “Those figures do not include the countless got-aways who successfully crossed U.S. borders.”
Polls indicate that illegal immigration and the ongoing Biden border crisis are one of the top issues heading into November’s General Election.
And one of the most vulnerable Senate incumbents is Senator Jon Tester (D-MT)
And Tester recently released an ad that proves Democrats know they are in trouble because of Biden’s border crisis.
Even though Tester twice voted against border security amendments, he tried to distance himself from Biden on the illegal immigration crisis through his latest ad.
“When Montanans see a problem, we get to work,” the ad begins. “And he fought to stop President Biden from letting migrants stay in America instead of remain in Mexico,” the ad continues. “Jon Tester knows defending Montana starts with securing the border.”
#MTPol: “Jon Tester worked with Republicans, fighting to shut down the border…and he fought to stop President Biden from letting migrants stay in America.”
Tester (D) is up with a new ad that distances himself from Biden. Tester has reserved $14.5M in ad spending for #MTSen. pic.twitter.com/tk0tMrZin9
— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) April 10, 2024
Tester’s campaign has already dropped a whopping $14.5 million in ad spending on the race.
The misleading ad also claims that Tester teamed up with Republicans and added “hundreds” of Border Patrol agents to help with security.
However, in August 2022, he voted against a motion that would have halted the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents until at least 18,000 new Border Patrol agents were added to the payroll.
As for Tester’s claim that he “fought to stop President Biden from letting migrants stay in America instead of remain in Mexico,” in reality, he voted against the “Remain in Mexico” protocols on two different occasions.
Polls indicate that Tester is trailing his Republican opponent, Tim Sheehy, by three points in the race.
And the fact that he is trying to distance himself from Joe Biden is bad news for Chuck Schumer and Democrats across the board.
