Former Republican pollster Lee Carter on Friday tried to put her best spin on former President Donald Trump's strategy of tanking a bipartisan border deal for his own political gain.
After playing video clips of Republican senators acknowledging that Trump is putting pressure on them to tank the deal, Carter argued that this kind of sabotage of bipartisan negotiations is exactly what many pro-Trump voters want.
"You look at the base who say... Trump is back, he's going to make sure we're tougher, we're getting better deals, the deal wasn't good enough, it wasn't strong enough," she said. "What they're trying to position this as saying is we're trying to do a tougher deal and we're going to say no to a deal that's going to tie this to Ukraine."
CNN political analyst John Avlon immediately interjected.
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"That's utter B.S. and it's important to point that out to folks," he said. "Donald Trump is trying to stop this deal from happening so he can stop bipartisanship and Biden from getting credit, so he can campaign on the issue while it gets worse. He is playing on those supporters who care about the border as fools yet again."
Avlon emphasized that people in the media shouldn't unquestioningly accept what Trump voters happened to be feeling at a given time as a reality that needs to be respected.
"They're being drugged and deluded!" Avlon said. "That's important to point out."
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