So pretty much the *only* issues Republicans are worked up about in this Pew survey are illegal immigration and the deficit (Pew didn't ask about the menace of BLM and Antifa) 1/
You might think that it would be hard to obsess over the deficit when it was actually Trump who blew the deficit up, to zero complaints from his party. But that would be assuming that R voters know about that, or would even be willing to hear it 2/
In reality, given that GOP supporters believe that rampaging mobs burned and looted major cities — somehow without the people actually living in those cities noticing — getting them to see facts about something as abstract as the deficit is a hopeless cause 3/
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