The Trump marketing campaign on Tuesday pushed again in opposition to a story throughout the media that Vice President Kamala Harris is taking a extra constructive method to frame wall building — calling such a declare “preposterous.”
“How for much longer will the mainstream media permit Kamala Harris to cover and use employees to talk on her behalf?” Karoline Leavitt, Nationwide Press Secretary for the Trump marketing campaign stated in an announcement. “It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s nameless marketing campaign sources at the moment are claiming she helps President Trump’s border wall — this can be a preposterous and false declare.”
Axios ran a headline on Tuesday morning that accused Harris of a “flip flop” on border wall building. It famous Harris’ help of a bipartisan border safety invoice launched in January. The invoice pushes funding to the border, whereas additionally authorizing limits on asylum entries.
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The Harris marketing campaign has not introduced that an interview has been scheduled. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
The package deal, which has the help of the Biden administration however has thus far did not drum up sufficient Republican help to move the chamber, additionally features a restricted quantity of funding for extra border wall building, however it’s only a fraction of the $25 billion former President Trump eyed for the mission.
Whereas Harris, together with President Biden and Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, have persistently backed the invoice, Axios stated that her latest speech on the Democratic Nationwide Conference wherein she stated she would signal the invoice was an indication of her embracing a extra hawkish immigration coverage.
“Final yr, Joe and I introduced collectively Democrats and conservative Republicans to jot down the strongest border invoice in a long time. The Border Patrol endorsed it. However Donald Trump believes a border deal would harm his marketing campaign, so he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal. Properly, I refuse to play politics with our safety, and right here is my pledge to you. As president, I’ll carry again the bipartisan border safety invoice that he killed, and I’ll signal it into legislation. I do know — I do know we will dwell as much as our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants and reform our damaged immigration system. We are able to create an earned pathway to citizenship and safe our border,” she stated.
New advertisements, wherein the Harris marketing campaign portrays the previous California senator as powerful on the border, present pictures of the Trump-era border wall.
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Candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks on the U.S.-Mexico border on August 22, 2024 south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Trump will maintain a rally in Glendale, Arizona tomorrow. (Picture by Rebecca Noble/Getty Photos) (Rebecca Noble/Getty Photos)
However the Trump marketing campaign famous that, regardless of that restricted help, Harris has a historical past of opposing the wall on the border. The Trump administration constructed greater than 400 miles of border wall, and it was abruptly halted by the Biden-Harris administration in 2021.
Whereas there have been some gaps crammed and a few restricted additional building resulting from already appropriated congressional funds, the administration has persistently stated it opposes border wall building and there have been no indications of plans for vital additional building.
Moreover, Harris has lengthy been a critic of the wall building that happened within the Trump-era. In 2018, Harris known as the wall “un-American.” That got here a yr after she joined Democrats in introducing a invoice to dam border wall building.
Throughout her marketing campaign launch in 2019, she dismissed the wall’s effectiveness.
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“With reference to transnational gangs, let’s be completely clear. The president’s medieval self-importance mission just isn’t going to cease them,” she stated.
In 2020, she known as it “a whole waste of taxpayer cash and received’t make us any safer.”
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The Trump marketing campaign additionally sought to hyperlink her to the choice to halt border wall building in her position “as border czar” — though that position was restricted to worldwide diplomacy associated to root causes.
“As Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted building of the border wall. Kamala’s ACTIONS communicate a lot louder than the WORDS of the nameless employees she is cowering behind,” Leavitt stated.
Trump senior adviser Jason Miller described the report as “complete bulls—” and stated that Harris “hasn’t flip-flopped on something.”
“Harris opposes the wall, has all the time opposed the wall, and stopped wall building as VP,” he stated.
