The Memo: GOP's border bill outrage underscores a political shift

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "There were over 300,000 encounters at the southwestern border in December, according to the latest data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
45% : Trump is "definitely a factor, because everybody now sees him as the presumptive nominee," Blakeman said.
44% : The fact of the matter is the proposal currently on the table is significantly more hard-line than other attempts at immigration reform earlier this century.
44% : "You can't have this many people showing up at the southern border every day without some sort of political reaction," said GOP consultant Alex Conant, who worked on Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Fla.) 2016 presidential campaign.
41% : Brad Blakeman, a GOP strategist who served in Bush's White House, lamented that if immigration reform had been achieved in the first decade of this century "we might not be in the quagmire we are in right now."
35% : "Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill," Trump wrote on social media on Monday morning.
35% : They also clearly see such a shift on Biden's part as driven by political expediency.
32% : Even so, more moderate Republican observers contend that it is the vast influx of migrants, rather than Trump himself, that has primarily changed the politics of the issue.
20% : There is, of course, one more factor to consider: the political reality that Trump and people close to him do not want to hand Biden a tool to defuse an incendiary issue in an election year.
11% : Later Monday, Trump told conservative media personality Dan Bongino that the bill could be "a very bad bill for [Lankford's] career, especially in Oklahoma.

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