Something like 400 of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives are safe seats. So the Democrat is looking over their left shoulder at a primary challenge. And the Republican is looking over their right shoulder for a primary challenge, not thinking about attracting mainstream voters and getting them to vote for them.
Jeh Johnson discusses how the safety of congressional seats leads politicians to focus on primary challenges rather than appealing to mainstream voters.
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The numbers, now, are something like, last time I looked, 12,000 a month. The prior administration sometimes saw that in a day.
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I'm a former law enforcement officer. I have spent much of my career as a law enforcement officer. I will enforce the law. I will do what it takes to secure our border.
You have to work with us. Don’t wait for there to be a tragic incident in your city before you decide you need to work with ICE.
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