A bit of free advice to political consultants, commentators, and politicians: Do not mock voters for having concerns about policy issues, as the talking head squadron at MSNBC did on Tuesday night.
During election night coverage of the Super Tuesday primary results, MSNBC hosts and Democratic Party activists Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Jen Psaki had some rather contemptuous remarks to make about an exit poll from Virginia that showed immigration was a top concern to primary voters.
“I live in Virginia. Immigration was the No. 1 issue. … You’re thinking, like, what?” Psaki said. She was previously the White House press secretary for the first year of President Joe Biden’s term.
Her remark got a chuckle out of Reid, but the most offensive comment came from Maddow, who sarcastically remarked, “Virginia does have a border with West Virginia!”
The comments made by Maddow and Psaki are a prime exhibit of the extent to which many people in the legacy media and the Democratic Party establishment are out of touch with voters, even those of their own party.
Concerns about illegal immigration are not contained to the border regions of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. As the recent tragic murder of Laken Riley at the hands of an illegal immigrant showed, the Biden administration’s failure to secure the border has had disastrous and painful consequences far away from the Rio Grande Valley.
In Virginia, where Psaki lives, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant was arrested just last month in the southern region of the state on charges that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl. The man, Renzo Mendoza Montes, had been detained in Texas by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in September but had been released.
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Five months later, he had made his way to a region of Virginia that is best known for being the home of the Liberty University. Thousands of miles from the border, this man allegedly caused life-changing trauma to a young girl who is barely in high school. It’s no wonder voters in Virginia rated immigration as the top issue.
Instead of mocking and castigating voters for being concerned about immigration, it would do Psaki and Maddow good to understand why voters are so concerned about it.
