Oct 23, 2026 · 13 min · 8 segments
In this multipart topic, Mike and Peter discuss the coming midterm elections, focusing on four key policy issues, as well as other promises Trump made to his MAGA supporters. This episode covers…
For our next bullet point, we wanted to talk about immigration and the border crisis and how that's not surprisingly not playing that well with Trump supporters.
And even in red states, it's... an issue that is always a big deal for Republican voters.
You know, the Democrats are soft on crime and they're soft on immigration and they just want to let people come across the border, run rampant.
He's still committed to that same line about how the Democrats just, you know, let so many people in.
But It's starting to fall on somewhat deaf ears with Republican voters saying, I think he's actually gone too far.
And then with the share of the Latino vote that grew for Trump so much over the course of the last three elections, it's finally waning as Latinos are looking around and going, oh, he said he was going to go after the the bad immigrants and the, you know, the people who were coming across the border without papers and were committing crimes and doing all kinds of awful stuff.
But, you know, he sent my grandma back to Mexico and she, you know, she's been here for 30 years or, well, he's trying to take my kid away from me.
Yeah, and I think it's interesting how this is – of all of our bullet points, they all tend to have two aspects to them.
The next one we're going to do, by the way, is going to be on endless wars and American expansionism.
But I think of all of the bullet points, this one is the one where we can really separate those two things and say that it's probably the only issue that Trump is still fighting.
It's kind of an amazing thing that even in blue states, people are saying it's good, like they've done a really good job of shutting it down.
For our next bullet point, we wanted to talk about immigration and the border crisis and how that's not surprisingly not playing that well with Trump supporters.
And even in red states, it's... an issue that is always a big deal for Republican voters.
You know, the Democrats are soft on crime and they're soft on immigration and they just want to let people come across the border, run rampant.
He's still committed to that same line about how the Democrats just, you know, let so many people in.
But It's starting to fall on somewhat deaf ears with Republican voters saying, I think he's actually gone too far.
And then with the share of the Latino vote that grew for Trump so much over the course of the last three elections, it's finally waning as Latinos are looking around and going, oh, he said he was going to go after the the bad immigrants and the, you know, the people who were coming across the border without papers and were committing crimes and doing all kinds of awful stuff.
But, you know, he sent my grandma back to Mexico and she, you know, she's been here for 30 years or, well, he's trying to take my kid away from me.
Yeah, and I think it's interesting how this is – of all of our bullet points, they all tend to have two aspects to them.
The next one we're going to do, by the way, is going to be on endless wars and American expansionism.
But I think of all of the bullet points, this one is the one where we can really separate those two things and say that it's probably the only issue that Trump is still fighting.
It's kind of an amazing thing that even in blue states, people are saying it's good, like they've done a really good job of shutting it down.
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