'Can't sustain this influx': Jessica Tarlov admits Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis were right about sending migrants north on Bill Maher show

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY: In a recent appearance on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, Democrat strategist and Fox News host Jessica Tarlov acknowledged that Texas Gov Greg Abbott and Florida Gov Ron DeSantis were correct in their predictions about the consequences of sending migrants north from border states.

Tarlov, co-host of FNC’s The Five, joined the discussion about the 2024 election and addressed the recent attack on two cops in Times Square by a group of migrants, described as being in the country illegally.

This marks a notable acknowledgment from Tarlov, considering the criticism directed at the two Republican governors by Democrats and the media for their stance on migration.

Chris Sununu acknowledges Abbott and DeSantis' immigration approach's  effectiveness

During the discussion on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, both Republican New Hampshire Gov Chris Sununu and host Bill Maher highlighted the potential impact of incidents involving migrants on the 2024 election.

While Democrat strategist and Fox News host Jessica Tarlov expressed skepticism about its significant influence on presidential outcomes, she did acknowledge that recent attention on the issue has vindicated Texas Gov Greg Abbott and Florida Gov Ron DeSantis in their approach of sending migrants to cities in the north.

This strategy aimed to underscore the gravity of the immigration issue and the challenges faced by border states due to the substantial influx of migrants since President Joe Biden took office.

Jessica Tarlov stated, "And it ended up being actually good on Governor Abbott 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." She continued, "And now that you have J. B. Pritzker and Mayor Adams and Kathy Hochul and the mayors at Baltimore and DC 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.

Bill Maher discusses immigration's potential impact on 2024 election and crime

The conversation among the four then flowed as Maher said, "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 replied, "Yes. It’s awful."

Maher then added, "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 replied, "Yes", to which Maher said, "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 added, saying, "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 said, "But are they going to say that?".

Tarlov expressed, "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," he continued.