TRUMP ADVISOR: 80% Back Deportations When Policy Is Explained │ Steve Cortes

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Steve Cortes discusses polling on deportations and the impact of Bidenomics on working-class Americans.

Deportations poll far stronger than the mainstream media admits, and Trump advisor Steve Cortes has the battleground-state numbers to prove it. On today's Jenny Beth Show, Jenny Beth Martin sits down with the former Trump-Vance campaign strategist and pollster to break down what his monthly polling really shows about 2026 midterm voters. Steve reveals that when Trump's actual voluntary-departure policy is fully explained (generous incentives to self-deport, plus the option to reapply legally) support for deporting illegal immigrants who refuse the offer climbs above 60%, and into the 80% range when criminal aliens are in the mix. He warns Republicans not to declare a 'golden age' while working-class Americans still feel the damage from Bidenomics at the grocery store. And he makes the fiscal conservative case that the Big Beautiful Bill was a 'borrowing and spending monstrosity' driving $39 trillion in federal debt. Plus: a powerful anecdote from Jenny Beth about ICE agents quietly keeping order at the Atlanta airport, Steve's playbook for winning state and local races on education by exposing skyrocketing property taxes and collapsing test scores, and concrete action items for…

People in this episode

Host: Jenny Beth Martin

Guest: Steve Cortes

Topics covered

• deportations
• polling
• midterm elections
• Bidenomics
• grassroots activism

Keywords

• deportations
• polling
• Trump
• Bidenomics
• grassroots activism
• midterm elections
• property taxes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trump-Vance campaign, America First movement, teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com

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