Matthew Dowd: ‘Republicans Use Immigration Issue as a Placeholder for Their Anger Over the Changing Nature of America’

DIAZ-BALART: “And Matthew, so the New Hampshire primaries are one week from tomorrow. How do you think what happens tonight will have an impact on New Hampshire?”
DOWD: “Well, I think two things. And first I’ll say about immigration. For me, Republicans use immigration issue as a placeholder for their anger over the changing nature of America. I mean, that’s what it’s fundamentally about. It’s about their anger at a multicultural, multidiverse, multiethnic democracy, which immigration for them, and the border for them, is basically the place they can hold those views in. On — on New Hampshire is, the interesting thing to me is, I — I think the only determinant factor that Iowa can have at this point is whether or not Ron DeSantis survives going forward, and does Nikki Haley get any lift at all to sort of get her in the — within single digit or beat Donald Trump in this. But the thing about New Hampshire you have to keep in mind, New Hampshire is as different from the states that follow as Iowa is from New Hampshire. So New Hampshire, you — you then go to South Carolina, very different. This is still a race of Donald Trump’s to lose.”