The Biden White House should have learned by now that its attempts to convince the American people not to believe their supposedly lying eyes don't work. From denying inflation's existence to blaming "Putin's price hike" for record-setting gas prices and selling "Bidenomics" as a success to claiming the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a great success, the American people haven't taken the bait. Now, a new poll shows Biden is losing in the court of public opinion when it comes to voters' views on the illegal aliens streaming across Biden's open border — and what to call them.
After Biden called Georgia student Laken Riley's killer an "illegal" during his State of the Union address earlier this month, he bowed to the open-borders mob and offered a mea culpa in an interview with MSNBC. "It's undocumented," he corrected his supposedly unforgivable use of the correct legal term for the violent criminal who snuffed out Laken Riley's vibrant life. Of course, even "undocumented" is stronger than the White House's absurd attempt to rebrand illegal aliens as "newcomers."
But a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shows that more Americans believe the term "illegal immigrant" is the right term for those who unlawfully enter the United States — record numbers of which have been allowed in by Biden and his administration.
A whopping 73 percent of respondents surveyed by Harvard CAPS/Harris unsurprisingly said that calling illegal immigrants "illegal" is appropriate. That's more than the 68 percent who said it's appropriate to call them "undocumented immigrants." That is, Biden had no reason to apologize except to show fealty to the mass amnesty, open-border radicals he's become so good at appeasing.
Even worse for Biden's claims he can't do anything about the chaos at the border, a problem his administration denied for years and still continues to minimize, is that tragic crimes perpetrated by illegal aliens are turning up the pressure for him to do something or face even lower job approval.
WH: They’re overwhelmingly LatinX ‘newcomers,’ you bigots https://t.co/vuj3Lxxpmd
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 25, 2024
According to the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, more than six in ten (63 percent) of voters are aware of Laken Riley's murder and, as a result, 70 percent "believe the case shows that the U.S. needs stricter immigration policies," according to the survey.
But Biden claims he doesn't have the authority to do anything to address the illegal alien influx — one that proves itself to be an invasion on a regular basis — even though it was his authority that was used to reverse border security policies and create this crisis beginning on day one of his administration.
With polls like this, it looks like Biden's attempts to blame Republicans while saying his hands are tied aren't going to play well with voters — a majority of whom say he's failing when it comes to handling the border and immigration system — heading into November.