An Immigration Shutdown Is President Trump's Big Winning Issue

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
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**Andrew Colvett** (1:09)
I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this show, and Blake Neff, one of the producers here, and also excited about this guest, Rich Baris, the People's Pundit, big data poll. Rich, welcome back to the show. We had an eventful weekend. I actually tuned in for one of your streams. It was very entertaining. You were fired up.
We were going back and forth on the prediction that I made instantly. As soon as I heard this, I was like, I know two things are going to be true. The media is going to rage, and two, this will be extraordinarily popular. Of course, I'm referring to the third world immigration moratorium that President Trump announced Wednesday night, Thursday morning, depending on what time zone you're in. It was a late message he sent off. So Rich, you came to my defense. You said Andrew is going to be proven right, and you immediately launched some polling on this, which I think is super fascinating. I don't know where you're at in the process, Rich, if you're done or if it's still ongoing, but I would love to hear what your results are showing.

**Rich Baris** (2:11)
It is still ongoing. I don't know if you had time to check out the graph that I sent in kind of late because it is still ongoing, but we did. We said, you know what, we're going to poll this right away. And I had an idea of what it would show, Andrew, because you talk to enough voters, you know what they want after a while, but we went in the field and this thing has not polled below a majority for the three days we've been in the field. Among likely voters, it's actually higher, just to show people. Yeah, I was just going to tell them, this is where we're at with it right now. I mean, you're looking at about a third who opposes it combined, and you can tell who they are, right? We're talking about the left and not eat. And by the way, there are significant chunks of Democrats who support this. But overall, independents and Republicans, Andrew, this thing is popular. Among likely voters, it's actually 57%. It's plus 24 So I mean, we just don't see policies this popular very often anymore in this country.
We're so polarized that when you talk about issues like voter ID, things like that, you'll get up to 70% plus. But we have a hard time in this country, unfortunately. It's just the state of our politics. We have a hard time reaching consensus like this on anything. And this is a consensus. It's enormously popular.

**Andrew Colvett** (3:32)
Well, and look, two things that stand out to me is you've got 10%, apparently, that are unsure. I don't know what you're unsure about.
But look at strongly support versus strongly oppose. Strongly support is at 34.1%. It's that big piece of the pie right there. The strongly oppose is only 19%, Rich. I mean, you have a way bigger core of support for this policy that support it versus those who oppose it. That, to me, is a telltale sign that this is going to be massively, massively energizing for the base, which I bring up, Rich, because you and I, last time you were on, we talked about how there was too much focus on foreign policy. There was too much focus on things that were abroad and abstract. People wanted to focus on domestic. And it was like in one fell swoop, in one tweet, it was like the grab bag of goodie bags for the MAGA movement. And it's like instantly President Trump is a hero again on X and all the other social platforms with the base.