What Went Down In The Third Democratic Debate

I said before that nobody had gotten an A grade so far, but Beto has probably crept into the A-minus range, not so much because of that last answer but because of the answer on guns.

On immigration, it’s worth remembering that Democrats have surged toward a more pro-immigration perspective since Trump won the White House — 83 percent of Democrats now believe that immigrants strengthen the country, far higher than in the past.

In a June 2019 Gallup poll, 27 percent of Americans want to increase legal immigration, 37 percent think the present level is fine, and 35 percent want to decrease those levels.