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Trump has decided casting immigrants as bearers of the coronavirus threat will help reelect him.

But this sort of demagoguery has failed in a remarkable number of losing GOP campaigns since 2016.

Here's the full rundown, via a new @AmericasVoice report:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@AmericasVoice "An endless sewage gusher of GOP ads have featured rapists, murderers, tattooed MS-13 members, and dark hordes storming the border. These failed in rural and pro-Trump districts, in swing states, and in the reddest of red states — in short, everywhere."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@AmericasVoice Also in this piece:

Trump's new suspension of immigration reeks of fraudulence.

I talked to the folks at @MigrationPolicy about how it would really work.

The details badly undermine the idea that this will protect US workers:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@AmericasVoice @MigrationPolicy Final point:

By exempting guest workers, Trump is in effect *conceding* that immigrants are playing a major role as essential workers helping get us through the worst public health emergency in modern times:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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