Former Texas representative and one-time Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke accused President Biden on Thursday of “failing” to deliver on his 2020 campaign promises on immigration — and warned that “unexcited” voters are “abandoning his banner in droves.”
The former congressman took particular issue with the 80-year-old president’s efforts to prevent immigrants from applying for asylum if they cross the border illegally, referring to the Biden administration’s policy as an “asylum ban” during an event at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School.
“And in some respects, Biden has succeeded. His rhetoric is night and day against Donald Trump. “Biden did not inspire, I don’t think, any acts of political violence or the kind of slaughter that we saw in El Paso, but in other respects, he really let us down,” O’Rourke said.
“The asylum ban we’re seeing makes it difficult for people to legally, safely and orderly come to this country when they can’t stay in their own country,” he added.
“Because why else would you travel 2000 miles, the length of this continent, mostly on foot, some of it on, not in, trains, called beasts — La Bestia — facing rape, torture, you know, kidnapping by criminal organizations this transnational, only to come to the most militarily powerful border possible anywhere in this hemisphere, if not this planet where you are risking your life.”
More immigrants “have died this year than any year on record,” O’Rourke said.
Beto O’Rourke called on Biden to restore the “moral clarity” position he held on immigration during his 2020 presidential campaign. The Harvard Kennedy School’s O’Rourke Institute of Politics warned that young voters are abandoning “banners in droves.” Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics
The 51-year-old former lawmaker argued that without a return to the “remarkable moral clarity” Biden has on immigration during the 2020 election, the incumbent could lose the 2024 race.
“It’s no secret that Democratic voters aren’t thrilled with Biden — that’s polite — it’s no secret, thanks to a poll we just read in The New York Times on Sunday, that young voters especially are abandoning his banner in droves,” said O’Rourke, referring to recent polls showing Biden trailing Trump in five battleground states.
Several recent polls show Biden trailing Trump in several battleground states.AP
Another poll released Thursday by Bloomberg News/Morning Consult showed Biden losing to Trump in six swing states – Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and North Carolina.
“Now are they going to vote for Donald Trump? Will they vote for RFK Jr.? Will they not vote at all? I do not know. But let’s give them a reason to vote for president. Something bold, something big, something that matches the rhetoric he used in 2020 and inspires voters in 2024 is what’s needed now,” O’Rourke, who appears to be out of politics after losing the 2018 Texas Senate election against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race and the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election against Gov. Greg Abbott, added.
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