Republican Senator Says the Quiet Part Out Loud on Trump Opposing Immigration Deal: ‘Thinking About Biden Victories’

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) spoke to CNN’s Manu Raju over the weekend about former President Donald Trump’s likely opposition to a bipartisan immigration deal being hammered out in the U.S. Senate.

“Makes it harder because there are people that, you know, that that take their lead from, you know, directly from him,” Cramer began, discussing the impact of Trump’s likely opposition.

“I do think, you know, he’s in a campaign. He’s the presumptive nominee as far as I’m concerned. His opponent will be the current president. And so he’s probably. I haven’t talked to him, but he’s probably thinking about Joe Biden victories. If Joe Biden suddenly got religion and supported a border deal that actually reduced the flow of illegal immigration, that would be good for him politically,” Cramer continued, noting Trump would likely put his electoral priorities ahead of any action on solving the border crisis.

“Probably thinking about Joe Biden’s victories. I mean, that really says it all here, but how can they get this deal through Congress, given the political dynamics here?” Raju then asked his panel.

Leigh Ann Caldwell, a political reporter for the Washington Post, replied, “It’s going to be extremely difficult. The morning that Donald Trump put out that social [post] before, earlier in that morning, had already written how the right-wing ecosphere has trying to sabotage this deal before it’s even out. You had someone like.”

Raju interjected, “They’re not even done with the deal yet.”

“No. Yeah. We don’t know the details,” Caldwell replied, concluding:

No one has seen the details and they are already trying to do this. You have Fox News who is kind of spreading this a little bit of misinformation about it. Hugh Hewitt, Heritage Action, the conservative political arm of the Heritage Foundation is lobbying members to come out against this.

This is going to be extremely difficult politically. And the reason absolutely is Republican members tell me, is because of the politics they do not want to get, give President Biden a win on one of his biggest political, you know, vulnerabilities that he has heading into or in an election year.

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