
CV NEWS FEED // Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-TX, said that the ongoing border crisis will be a major factor in deciding who voters cast their ballots for in the November presidential election.
FOX News asked Cuellar, “Will the border be an election issue for Democrats, including President Biden, in 2024?”
“Absolutely,” the congressman replied. “If they’re looking at the same polls I’ve been looking at, the American public doesn’t like what’s happening.”
“I represent an area where it’s almost 80% Hispanic, a lot of Democrats,” he pointed out. “There’s some Democrats who tell me, ‘I’m voting for you, Henry, but I’m voting Republican because of the border issue.’”
It is in Biden’s “best interest politically to come up with a solution on border security,” Cuellar concluded.
The Democrat gave his remarks to FOX while visiting Texas border communities with three of his Republican House colleagues.
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FOX News reported that its “poll from last month found that eight in 10 voters think the situation at the southern border is either an emergency (34%) or a major problem (45%).”
A Harvard CAPS-Harris poll unveiled earlier this week found that “35 percent of respondents listed immigration as their paramount concern among an array of issues, with inflation in a close second, named by 32 percent of respondents,” per The Hill.
“Immigration skyrocketed as an issue, jumping 7 percentage points in the list compared to the previous month’s poll,” The Hill indicated.
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Cuellar has represented Texas’ 28th District since 2005. The border district is nestled along the Rio Grande and anchored by his home city of Laredo.
Back in September, he called out Biden for “not doing enough” to confront the border crisis.
“You’ve got to deport people, and you’ve got to show images of people being deported,” he stated at the time. “When was the last time we saw people going the other way instead of just seeing people flow in?”
