Virginia | November 12, 2021
Douglas Wilder warns Dems of voter backlash from $450K payouts to illegal immigrants
Virginia | November 12, 2021
Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder said Democrats will pay a price at the ballot box next year if they start cutting taxpayer-funded checks to migrants.
Mr. Wilder, the nation’s first Black governor, said the Biden administration’s plan for payoffs, if successful, will dent the party’s image in the eyes of voters who feel left behind despite playing by the rules.
“When you are saying to the American people you are going to spend countless billions of dollars for people illegally here and those who have been here struggling to climb up the ladder for years have not been given a chance then that is going to be a problem,” Mr. Wilder said in an interview Thursday with The Washington Times… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)