Politico: Behind the GOP Convention: An Immigration Fight

September 8, 2026 Hunter Wallace 2026 Midterms, Conservatism, donald trump, Immigration, MAGA, Politics, Populists 0

As recently as last December, I personally thought we would get the mass deportations. The Big Beautiful Bill had passed Congress. We were heading into an election year. I thought there would be immense political pressure to get the number of deportations up to excite the base.

Politico:

“When President Donald Trump takes the stage in Dallas at the GOP midterm convention, he’s expected to tout record immigration arrests by immigration agents and a border that’s been hardened — all of which he’ll say has driven down violent crime.

What he almost certainly won’t do is reprise a campaign of mass deportations of the sort he rode to a second-term victory.

The shift from two years ago is likely to infuriate hardline immigration activists already livid over their feeling that the administration hasn’t lived up to its campaign promises. But it also is an acknowledgment that the politics of immigration are far thornier for Trump than they were at the 2024 convention when “MASS DEPORTATION NOW” signs filled the room. The change is due, in large part, to the killings in Minneapolis and Maine, third-country removals, and the arrests of thousands of long-term immigrants who have not committed violent crimes. …”

It was inconceivable to me that the GOP would be running in the midterms on gas being $4.39 a gallon in Michigan, $4.59 in Pennsylvania, $4.29 in Ohio, etc. I didn’t think Trump would go to war with Iran for Israel. I didn’t think Trump would be posting on Labor Day about renaming New Mexico.

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