Me: Not when the leader of the republican party, now a convicted felon, told republicans to kill it before even reading the bill.

Dope1: You've been proven wrong on this.

No, just the opposite. Let me show you yet again:

Convicted felon Trump, January 18 on Truth Social: “I do not think we should do a Border Deal, at all, unless we get EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION of Millions & Millions of people, many from parts unknown, into our once great, but soon to be great again, Country!”

Speaker Johnson's January 26 letter to colleagues: “I wanted to provide a brief update regarding the supplemental and the border, since the Senate appears unable to reach any agreement. If rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway.”

The bipartisan border bill was unveiled on February 4.

Dope1: I'll put it to you this way: That bill was going to have bipartisan opposition in the House.

If the republicans had felt they would have had overwhelming bipartisan opposition to that bill, they would have brought it to the floor in a heartbeat because that kind of lack of support for president Biden by his own party would have been an enormous embarrassment for him in an election year.

On the contrary, republicans -- who frequently don't know how to count votes -- were afraid of going on record voting "no" on a bill endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page and supported by 66% of Americans.