Michael Knowles said Democrats wanted mass migration to manufacture a permanent electoral majority and have "mostly been proven right." We rated it false — truth score 0.15, confidence 0.82.

The prediction was real. The program was not — and in 2024 the naturalized-immigrant vote swung to Trump.

On Ep. 2044 of The Michael Knowles Show (24 August 2026), at 29:27, Knowles packed two claims into one sentence: a motive claim (Democrats pursued migration in order to build a majority) and an outcome claim (it worked). The line sits inside a defense of J.D. Vance, whose 21 August speech in Middletown, Ohio attacked the Wall Street Journal over its 1984 "There shall be open borders" editorial. Note that Vance's target was capital and offshoring; the Democrats-manufacturing-voters clause is Knowles's addition.

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