Fox Business host Lou Dobbs warned President Trump is at risk of alienating his base if he does not fulfill his campaign promise of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, setting up defectors to rally behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
As a panel discussion Monday evening turned to the Trump administration paving the way for stricter standards for immigrants seeking green cards and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway saying Republicans can reach a deal on gun control legislation, Dobbs argued the president’s reelection chances are in doubt if he does not stay true to his hard-line approach to illegal immigration.
“His base is expecting a wall. They’re expecting illegal immigration to be stopped. Instead, immigration year over year is rising significantly,” Dobbs said on Lou Dobbs Tonight, adding, “This is not going well.”
Dobbs, a staunch supporter of the president, couched his warning by stating, “I absolutely believe this is a historic president, that this man is doing things that were unimaginable even 10 years ago, which he is achieving.”
“But,” he continued, “my God, November 2020 is nearing at an alarming rate. Somebody is advising him in the most peculiar and, I think, antithetical to his interest manner.”
Dobbs said Warren, a liberal senator from Massachusetts who is a top tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, may appeal to Trump supporters who feel spurned.
“You know who is coming straight at the president? Focusing on the forgotten man and the forgotten woman — and that is Pocahontas herself, Elizabeth Warren. Senator Warren is going straight at the working man and woman in this country and talking about taxing the rich and raising hell. And it seems to be resonating in these early days,” he said.
Both New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin and GOP strategist Ed Rollins agreed Warren is a strong candidate, to which Dobbs added, “If this president forgets who his base is, and listens to some of these folks advising him on illegal immigration, the wall, gun control, and jobs, and visas, and the American worker, it’s going to be a dandy of an election.”
