No. of Recommendations: 3
Biden, and ever friggin' democratic member of Congress should be trumpeting this every day whenever they appear on any media outlet between now and election day. Biden has already started! If there is any upside to this, it would be that it could very well cause the GOP to lose the House, Senate AND White House in November!
Seems unlikely.
Oh, sure - it gives Biden something to say about the border. But generally speaking, you don't usually help your electoral chances by raising the salience of the issue that you're losing to the other side on. American voters overwhelmingly favor the GOP over the Democrats over the border. If you're out there "trumpeting" the issue relating to the border, rather than job creation or low unemployment or falling inflation rates or growing GDP (or protecting abortion rights or labor unions or anything else), you're mostly playing into the hands of the GOP.
Plus, let us not forget that a non-trivial portion of the Democratic base hated this bill. The GOP committed a bit of political malpractice by killing it so quickly, rather than letting a little opposition gin up on the Left. That way the narrative might have been a bit more that the bill died from bipartisan opposition, just like similar efforts in 2007 and 2013. I understand why they did that - letting the process go on for a while would be utterly inconsistent with their theory of the election and the Democratic party - but they probably could have let at least a few progressive Senators and the Congressional Progressive Caucus get on the record that they were going to insist on big changes to the bill. Regardless, you're never going to get the CPC "trumpeting" that they were willing to adopt the most punitive immigration bill in two generations in order to get their foreign aid priorities.
Politically for Biden and the Democrats, the bill was worth doing because they want/need the border issue to fade in salience and move to the back burner, so that the 2024 election would be on other issues. Since that didn't happen, it's probably not the best move to join the GOP in their efforts to center the border as the prime issue in 2024.
