We've heard a lot of red-alert warnings from Republicans fretting that failing to make good on GOP promises will cost them votes in the midterms. Normally, political observers reference the failure to repeal health care or faltering on tax reform, but RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel is keeping it real: they could lose all those anti-immigrant nativists who voted for Trump too unless they deliver on his useless $40- to $50-billion border wall. Andrew Kaczynski of CNN writes:
Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel said Wednesday that failing to fulfill Donald Trump's campaign promise to build a wall along the Mexican border will hurt the party in the 2018 midterm elections.
"They're gonna lose the trust of our base if we don't keep our promises, our base is gonna walk away," McDaniel said when asked by conservative radio host Laura Ingraham about the possibly of the wall not being built or funded. "They're gonna feel like, 'hey you said one thing on the campaign trail to get elected and you didn't act on it.'"
"Certainly this was front and center in his campaign and our voters are gonna expect us to act on it," she added.
Certainly, it was. But hey, just cuz Trump had a whole call-and-response routine with his voters over building the wall and making Mexico pay for it doesn't mean they expected him to do either. In fact, since Mexico isn’t paying, why not just wait until next term to build it?