The Issue: President Biden’s chances for reelection this year in light of the southern border crisis.
As The Post reports, a recent CBS/YouGov poll shows all the remaining Republican candidates beating President Biden in the general election (“Any GOPer over Biden in new poll,” Jan. 17).
What is remarkable about this snapshot in time is that plenty of voters would prefer Donald Trump not to run at all, while neither Ron DeSantis nor Nikki Haley has exactly captivated the imagination of the electorate.
This dynamic underscores what Biden and his party have come to represent: forced DEI in workplaces, an end to meritocracy, identity politics, open borders, a narrative that criminals are the real victims and the indoctrination of students from grade school through college with leftist tripe. This picture of Biden’s party is becoming clearer by the day.
Anthony Parks
Garden City
One of the top issues among primary voters is immigration. Yet Democrats often demonize those trying to stem the tide of migration.
Currently, the federal government is ordering Texas to remove physical barriers at the border. Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, tried to negotiate a deal in the Senate that would give amnesty to migrants who came into our country during the Biden administration.
Roughly 5,000 migrants are crossing the border each day: people who would presumably take jobs, flood our social and health-care systems and further drive wages down for working-class US citizens. Democrats are clearly out of touch with the needs of the American electorate.
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH
Sleepy Joe, seeing that his poll numbers are underwater, says he’s “ready to make significant changes” to his immigration policy (“Joe bordering on change,” Jan. 18).
All this means is that the Democrats are satisfied that millions of potential future voters will be given amnesty. I suspect that was Biden’s immigration policy from his first day in office.
Walter Goldeski
East Brunswick, NJ
With November fast approaching, all of a sudden the Democrats care about the border, fentanyl and crime.
It’s the same thing every four years. The mainstream media will show a one-hour closing of the border, one drug bust and another phony crime statistic from the corrupt FBI. Dems will hold press conferences to brag. In the end, the GOP does nothing. Conservatives and Republicans stay on the bar stools and couches. The Dems win again. All the signs are there if you look close enough.
Storm Destro
Bayone, NJ
The Issue: A New York judge rejects Daniel Penny’s motion to dismiss charges for manslaughter.
We may never see another Good Samaritan on the New York subway (“Chokehold Marine trial ‘dismiss’ nixed,” Jan. 18).
Why would people want to aid a fellow train rider after what has happened to former Marine Daniel Penny? He says he stepped in to prevent train riders from being attacked by Jordan Neely, who had a long history of mental illness.
Now Penny is being charged with criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter because he used a chokehold to restrain Neely until police arrived.
Penny may have potentially saved lives that day, but still he faces up to 20 years in prison.
Linda Calabrese
Brooklyn
It’s outrageous that Penny’s motion to dismiss the charges against him was rejected.
I wonder how the “Honorable” Judge Maxwell Wiley would rule if a loved one had been on the same train car as Penny and Jordan Neely.
Scott W. Ventrella
Ridgefield, Conn.
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