Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic 2024 presidential nominee, ridiculed former Republican President Donald Trump’s wall on the southern border during her time in the U.S. Senate and the Biden White House.
She’s called the wall anti-immigrant, medieval, wasteful, a vanity project, and a complete waste of taxpayer money.
But with the presidential election 70 days away, the 59-year-old California politician has suddenly decided that Trump’s wall on the southern border is such a good idea that she’s adopted it as part of her official immigration policy platform.
“If she’s elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border,” according to a new report from Axios, which cited unnamed Harris campaign officials.
Harris’ about-face on the border wall is a stunning reversal in a campaign that has been characterized by the candidate’s staff claiming, usually anonymously, that she doesn’t support the very policies she’s supported throughout her entire time in public office.
Harris stridently supported abolishing private health insurance in favor of “Medicare for All” — but has just recently disavowed that position, according to aides.
Harris once vociferously supported a ban on fracking, but now that she’s looking for votes in states like Pennsylvania, where fracking for natural gas supplies thousands of jobs, Harris campaign staffers insist she no longer supports such a policy.
But the immigration flip-flop is far and away the most spectacular policy reversal from the Democratic candidate.
As a Senator, Harris vowed in 2017 to vote against any funding for the construction of a southern border wall.
“On the subject of transnational gangs, let’s be perfectly clear, the President’s medieval vanity project is not going to stop them,” said Harris on the campaign trail in 2019.
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Harris’ long-standing opposition to building a security wall on the southern border continued even after President Biden appointed her as “Border Czar” and tasked her with handling the illegal immigration crisis on behalf of the Biden Administration.
The dramatic shift in Harris border security policy comes after polling has shown that stronger border security is a winning issue for Republicans, and that the majority of Americans support mass deportations.
Even Axios appears to have grown tired of Harris campaign staffers insisting that Harris no longer supports policy positions she has consistently supported throughout her political career.
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ABC News has also seemingly grown weary of Harris’s immigration inconsistencies, highlighting the hypocrisy of her new pro-border security political ad, which uses footage of the border wall — including sections that were constructed during the Trump Administration.
In addition to reversing herself of key policy items, Harris has also demonstrated a knack for copying policy ideas first embraced by the Trump campaign.
After Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), announced a plan to work towards a $5,000 tax credit per child.
“I’d love to see a child tax credit that’s $5,000 per child. But you, of course, have to work with Congress to see how possible and viable that is,” said Sen. Vance. “President Trump has been on the record for a long time supporting a bigger child tax credit, and I think you want it to apply to all American families.”
After Vance faced mockery from left-wing outlets for his plan to have “childless cat-ladies” subsidize the tax credits, Harris adopted a similar policy as her own, one-upping Vance by proposing a $6,000 tax credit.
She did the same thing after Trump proposed a policy to remove income tax from tips.
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Harris, who supported a 2023 policy intended to help the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to better tax tips, changed her tune on that issue as well and mimicked Trump’s proposal.
It is unclear if Harris’ adoption of some of Trump’s policy will do more to draw voters away from him, or alienate her own base.
the exact opposite is true .
she will open the border even wider
she will destroy America
what is it that people don’t understand about that ?
she is a true believer
she will never change
Trump never supported a border deal. He killed it. Kamala Harris believes in tough bipartisan work at the border.
Trump tanked border reform. He ignored the will of border police officers. Trump effectively defunded police at the border.
Harris will sign a tough bipartisan bill into law, which is the same bill Trump insisted we not pass. Trump made the immigration problem. Kamala Harris and regular Republicans at just trying to solve the problems MAGA GOP causes…. in this case it was defunding border security.
Trump = weak borders and tax cuts for the wealthy… no matter how this website might try to act otherwise.
This guy Isaac is a liar .
He is obviously some “ operative plant “ that been sent here to create dissent .
He probably gets paid by the word to poison news sites like this .
Go infect people somewhere else !
YOU are a liar !
Fact Check: In recent decades there has always been sections of border wall. Border wall sections have been constructed and repaired during conservative and liberal admins in high traffic areas of the border. Don’t just trust me – ask people living on the border if you know any or Google it. Border wall was constructed during Obama’s admin as well, and Trump just took photos next to one of those sections for a campaign publicity stunt claiming it was “his wall”. A stance against “Trumps Border Wall” policy has nothing to do with a lack of understanding that a problem exists. It’s acknowledging that the problem is greater than anything a few miles of steel can fix.
Kamala like other Democrats will say and promise whatever to stay in power. Her rise to power and how she came to be in politics says all you need to know about her true character.
It’s frightening as to how many drank way to much of their cool aid.
Off the beaten path, I don’t understand how the Democrat party refers to Kamala as a black woman when they can’t even define what a woman is.
doe she even know where the southern border is? When previously asked, she said she’s never been to Europe either? Can’t wait til she’s president.
It’s a bit late even if we believed Cormella!!