In terms of salience, a congressional district's ethnic composition influences the salience of immigrants and refugees in 🔵Dem legislators' tweets: the more Hispanic, urban, and less Non-Hisp white a district, the more Dems tweet about the topic. There is no effect among 🔴Reps.

While 🔵Dems are unsurprisingly more positive towards "immigrants" than 🔴Reps, both are equally positive towards "refugees" (🔵D's use both terms to label southern border migrants; 🔴R's use "refugee" only for certain target groups such as potential Hong Kong refugees).

Very happy to share our new publication with João Guedes-Neto in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! In this study we analyze inter- and intra-party differences and strategic salience in US representatives' tweets on immigrants and refugees in the 2020 election campaign. 🧵

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Moreover, RRPs use environmental chauvinism in response to public interest in the environment and Green party success (the latter, once again, only when public interest in the environment is high).

We find that RRPs respond to green party electoral success by increasing their emphasis on the environment, but only when the public is interested in the issue.