The legislative border drama of the past couple weeks effectively culminated with the undeniably solid special election victory of former Rep. now-Rep.-elect Tom Suozzi, a Democrat in a suburb who faced an opposition campaign seemingly designed in a lab to show that Democrats have a problem in the suburbs because of immigration politics.
In the hours since, Democrats began actively testing a plan where it is in fact Republicans who have the problem. It’s as if a trailer for an alternate-reality sci-fi movie has dropped with the narrator intoning: “Imagine a world where Democrats talk about the border and Republicans wish they didn’t.”
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is actually spending money on seeing if this vision of politics can become a reality. On Tuesday, the group popped a digital ad on Meta-owned platforms targeting Republicans who helped kill the bipartisan Senate border bill crafted by their colleague Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma.