Why Kamala Harris Is Thinking About Going to the Border

Let me explain why the Veep is thinking about going to the border — and why she may not end up going.

On September 24, CNN reported that Vice President (and current Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris “is planning to visit the US-Mexico border while in Arizona” for a campaign stop on September 27.

The Senate Border Bill. Harris has attempted to pivot away from the issues of immigration and the border by blaming Trump for the failure of the so-called “bipartisan Senate border bill”, proposed by Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) in early February and quickly defeated in a Senate procedural vote three days later.

What’s worse, Harris’s worst issue among voters in a head-to-head matchup against Trump was border security: 39 percent of registered voters trusted the current vice president to secure the border, while a solid majority — 58 percent — trusted the former president more on the issue, 19 points in the wrong direction for Harris.

The Harris campaign likely knows that, and probably thinks it needs a picture of Harris with Border Patrol agents and local officials in front of the border wall to turn voters’ dour opinion of her on immigration.

Harris has attempted to pivot away from the issues of immigration and the border by blaming Trump for the failure of the so-called “bipartisan Senate border bill”, proposed by Sens.

On eight of those issues, Harris polled better against Trump than Biden had previously. 

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