Every indirect indicator we are seeing like crowd sizes, voter registrations, donations, voter enthusiasm, points towards a Democratic victory. Polling on the other hand suggests a very close race that could go either way.
It will be interesting to see which of these is a better predictor. It should be polling because that is literally its one job and even more terrifying is that polls significantly underestimated Trump’s support in 2016 and 2020.
Of course this app launched while Trump was president, and obviously it’s for helping people legally seeking asylum schedule appointments at the border, not for smuggling people in.
This is literally the only thing they’ve tried that has even a bit of traction so they are gonna go all in on the racism. You think it’s bad now, it’s going to get 10x worse in the next couple of weeks
Migrant flights are real! In fact this is how all the Haitians got here.
Since the program was launched more than 357,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela have been granted parole and allowed to enter the country through January. Haitians have been far been the biggest group to use the program with 138,000 people from that country arriving, followed by 86,000 Venezuelans, 74,000 Cubans and 58,000 Nicaraguans.
Under this program, the majority of these immigrants are being flown here on US government flights. For some reason this is only hinted at in the PBS article (“Migrants must apply online, arrive at an airport and have a financial sponsor in the U.S.”). This one has additional details about the flights: