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[sundin13]

Ryuu96 said:

There's no point even responding to the last point, illegal immigrants can't vote, Lol.

Unemployment rate is down a whopping 0.10% from May 25 to June 25 which comes from a previous increase of 0.20% from January 25 to March 25 where it remained steady until May 25. The stock market is not the economy, despite Trump's best efforts to crater it, the stock market is no longer believing Trump's tariffs at all and not taking them into account because they believe he will TACO.

Price of products are not down either.

• Food Price Outlook - Summary Findings | Economic Research Service
• Grocery price tracker: Inflation trends for eggs, bread and more during the Trump administration
• U.S. inflation rose slightly last month as grocery prices ticked higher | PBS News

While undocumented immigrants can't vote, they are still generally counted in the US census numbers which may increase the amount of Electoral College votes that a state gets. If a substantial amount of undocumented immigrants were pushed out of only blue leaning states, there may be a slight shift in favor of red states.

BUT, the assumption that the most arrests are occurring in blue states is just an assumption. What does the actual data look like?

Here is the data sorted by % of Total Population:

As you can see, 8 of the top 10 states by population lost are pretty safe Republican strongholds (Arizona being the only purple exception and Virginia being the only blue exception). While the % change is a fraction of 1% and would not be estimated to have any impact on Electoral College votes, if it had an impact it would predominantly harm Southern Republican states.