real. but will high inflation derail the democrats momentum. gop primary field is set. it is filled with trump picked election deniers and some are changing the tunes. we live and learn. right? the election was not stolen. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. hello and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. illegal immigration roared back into the headline as republican governors sent migrants up north. governor desantis flew approximately 50 vendsn migrants to martha s vineyard saying he was using the tax dollars to make a point. we ll spend every penny to protect the people of the state of florida. we have an infrastructure in place now. there s more that s happening. the democrats say he s using human beings including women and young children in a cynical ploy. buses sent by texas governor abbott brought migrants to washington d.c. dropping them off outside vice president kamala harris s residence. it is go
In the last six years since donald trump was running for president but undermines the sense of the system generally. the hope of the president talking about unity an soul of america. i think republicans think he hasn t hit that note correctly but leaves us in the same place. they know that immigration is sensitive for this administration. they were dealing with a surge of chin and then haitian migrants under a bridge and the administration says it s a western hemisphere issue. the democrats have made a choice. as we have been discussing this bussing has been going on since april but 50 migrants in martha s vineyard kicked off a push back from democrats. listen to this ad from charlie
That trump has been showing up basically uninvited at some rallies. whether he is invited or not. he keeps holding rallies in battleground states where the candidates hold calls to strategize on dealing with calls from trump saying i m coming. we know from watching the trump rallies 99% of the time it s not about the candidates. it is about donald trump himself. we saw that in ohio last night. i m sure in north carolina this week campaigning for the candidates down there but the focus is on donald trump and why you see the candidates in the swing races feel that he is not very beneficiary and you have people like dr. oz saying i would have voted to certify the election and didn t make donald trump happy but it s a stamp to see for sometime.
In the senate races where he is endorsing candidates, georgia, pennsylvania, these are potentially wentible races but having a little bit of a tough time. they are. there s a couple exceptions. the candidates matter in a way they don t in house races but if it s a choice between joe biden and donald trump they are more likely to win. right now with the way that things have been going with trump and mar-a-lago and the rallies it is a choice between trump and biden. as a republican strategist they say to us if trump could be on message it would be so great. he won t. they are stuck. we will dig in more because democrats now think that maybe
holding hands. no closer than that. we have come to will they campaign with biden to holding hands. see how many people in swing states want to hold hands. gretchen whitmer of michigan in a much more solid position than the swing state. the driver s state? all right. kicking you off. we are. the other group of voters who republicans and democrats fighting over since 2020. the voters who voted for trump in 2016 and biden in 2020. republicans were convinced in 2021 they had been rented. su sur ban voters that they on most issues support republicans and couldn t stand donald trump. now democrats say we ll get them back not talking about the