Trump sways independent voters over Biden on immigration in Fox News Digital focus group

Former President Trump appeared to gain important support from Republican and autarkic voters who were portion of a Fox News Digital absorption radical during his effect to President Biden's claims astir migration during the CNN Presidential Debate connected Thursday night.

When CNN moderator Jake Tapper asked Biden to pass voters however helium tin curb the record-high numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the border, the 2 statesmanlike contenders sparred implicit their migration policies, which ended successful Biden calling Trump a "liar" and Trump appearing to not recognize a information of Biden's responses.

After touting Congress' bipartisan borderline bundle that lawmakers bucked earlier this year, Biden said "we find ourselves successful a concern wherever erstwhile [Trump] was president, helium was separating babies from their mothers, enactment them successful cages, making definite that the families were separated."

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Former President Trump appeared to gain important support from Republican and autarkic voters during his effect to President Biden's claims astir immigration. (Fox News Digital)

"That's not the close mode to go. What I've done since I've changed the law, what's happened? I've changed it successful a mode that present you're successful a concern wherever determination are 40% less radical coming crossed the borderline illegally. That's amended than erstwhile helium near office. And I'm going to proceed to determination until we get the full prohibition connected the full inaugural comparative to what we tin bash with much Border Patrol and much asylum officers," Biden said.

During Biden's remarks, Republican and autarkic voters who took portion successful the Fox News Digital absorption radical gave the president debased approval. When Trump responded, however, the support from the aforesaid voters changeable up, indicating enactment for the erstwhile president's positions connected the subject. 

Republican support lines are color-coded red, portion independents' are color-coded yellowish and Democrats' blue.

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Former President Trump speaks during a statesmanlike statement successful Atlanta connected Thursday. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Trump, appearing to not recognize Biden, responded: "I truly don't cognize what helium said astatine the extremity of that sentence, I don't deliberation helium knows what helium said, either."

"Look, we had the safest borderline successful the past of our country," Trump added. "All helium had to bash was permission it, each helium had to bash was to permission it. He decided to unfastened up our border, unfastened up our country, to radical that are from prisons, radical that are from intelligence institutions, insane asylum, terrorists — we person the largest fig of terrorists coming into our state close now."

President Biden stands astatine his podium during the archetypal statesmanlike statement of the 2024 predetermination rhythm successful Atlanta connected Thursday. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post)

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Approval from Democratic voters who took portion successful the real-time absorption gave Biden precocious marks for his remarks connected immigration. During Trump's rebuttal, Democratic support dropped significantly.

Fox News' Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.