Liberal Fox News Host Admits Abbott And DeSantis Right About Sending Migrants North After All On Bill Maher

Democrat strategist and Fox News host Jessica Tarlov said to Bill Maher that it turns out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis were correct in what they thought would happen after sending migrants north from border states, for which most Democrats and media roundly condemned and attacked the two Republicans.

Tarlov, co-host of FNC’s The Five, appeared along with Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on the most recent episode of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday, and in a discussion about the 2024 election, she weighed in on the attack on two cops in Times Square by what reports are describing as a group of 12 to 16 migrants here illegally.

Both Sununu and Maher made similar points about how such incidents could impact or sway the outcome of the 2024 election, and while Tarlov was skeptical it would move the needle as far as presidential outcomes, she did essentially say at one point that attention on the issue recently has vindicated both Abbott and DeSantis on their plan to send migrants to cities up north in order to highlight the seriousness of the issue and the burdens that border states are facing under the enormous influx of migrants since President Joe Biden took office.

“And it ended up being actually good on Governor Abbot to start busing immigrants all over the country. When he started with Martha’s Vineyard, him and DeSantis, I thought, oh, this is just a political stunt, it’s ridiculous, said Tarlov. “And now that you have J. B. Pritzker and Mayor Adams and Kathy Hochul and the mayors at Baltimore and D.C. saying, we absolutely cannot sustain this influx.”

“Everybody feels like they live in Eagle Pass now and has a lot of sympathy for that,” she said.

MAHER: Yes. Well, this election will probably, my guess will probably turn on something like, I don’t know if you saw this. It was, I think, yesterday in New York City, some illegal immigrants who were brought to the city attacked a bunch of cops. I think we have video of it.

TARLOV: Yes. It’s awful.

MAHER: Yes. OK. So this is — right. Now, this is real. That’s what’s going to happen with this election, it’s only in eight states. Most of the country has their mind made up. No matter what either guy did, it wouldn’t change. It’s going to be something like this, that whatever the 4 percent of people who actually are undecided in those eight states are going to see something like this. This is what I worry about. And is this even real? I mean, this one is.

SUNUNU: Yes.

MAHER: But we have, please, we have Biden making robo calls that are not Joe Biden. We have Taylor Swift having sex with people who are not Taylor Swift. I don’t think anything in this election can be certified as real. But that’s what worries me about this election, something like that. And that’s an immigration issue sort of.

TARLOV: It isn’t — well, it is. And it ended up being actually good on Governor Abbot to start busing immigrants all over the country. When he started with Martha’s Vineyard, him and DeSantis, I thought, oh, this is just a political stunt. It’s ridiculous. And now that you have J. B. Pritzker and Mayor Adams and Kathy Hochul and the mayors at Baltimore and D.C. saying, we absolutely cannot sustain this influx, everybody feels like they live in Eagle Pass now and has a lot of sympathy for that.

But the reason that I don’t think that the election hinges on these issues is A, we have time. And Democrats better start fixing it. Get tough about these things. Say if you touch a cop, you’re deported tomorrow. That’s how it works here.

SUNUNU: But are they going to say that?

TARLOV: Well, Kathy Hochul, her challenger, Lee Zeldin, got much closer than he should have. Well, he lost by four or five points in blue New York because she ignored the crime issue and just wanted to talk about abortion. So I think people are going to pay attention to it. And there’s this misconception amongst conservatives at least that I come across where they think that suddenly we’re going to wake up and because a rec center was given to migrant families instead of the kids who deserve to be there. And we believe that, but that we’re going to be Republicans, that we’re going to ignore our moral compasses and all the policies that you’ve listed off. We’re going to say, you know what, oh, Donald Trump is not that bad.

I don’t know one voter who has changed their mind from 2020, who’s going to wake up in 2024 on Election Day and be like, you know what, actually, the last four years have proven to me that Donald Trump is the right man —

Watch the clip above via Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO.

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