Biden losing control of Democrats’ message in ‘illegal’ controversy

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President Joe Biden’s apology for calling Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s alleged murderer an “illegal” illustrated two major dilemmas for his reelection campaign.

The most obvious is that worrying about the correct terminology for describing someone believed to have murdered a U.S. citizen itself exemplifies Biden’s timorous and largely disastrous approach to the border. 

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