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Vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris rallied thousands of supporters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, where she defended her support for harsher immigration and border enforcement policies. Harris compared her record to Donald Trump’s and blamed the Republican presidential nominee for tanking a bipartisan bill that would have further militarized the southern border.
Vice President Kamala Harris: “Our administration worked on the most significant border security bill in decades. Some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C., supported the bill. Even the Border Patrol endorsed it. It was all set to pass, but at the last minute, Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down.”
Supporters: “Boo!”
Vice President Kamala Harris: “Right.”
Harris has touted recent endorsements by more than a dozen mayors in Arizona, a border state, including that of Republican John Giles of Mesa, who praised Harris’ backing of the failed bipartisan bill. Immigration advocates say the legislation would have further eroded the rights of asylum seekers.
Yeah this isn’t an arms race you want to get involved with. You’re not gonna win over any Trump voters with this when he can make them swoon by talking about total border shutdowns or hell maybe reviving the old build-a-wall rhetoric.
On the flip side, this might well alienate independent/Dem-leaning people who don’t want this but whose votes you desperately need and have a chance to win over.
Not a good play imo.
Democrats can promise a river of foreign blood, and still lose the “moderate republicans”, because the republicans will promise to double it.
Fascists will always vote for the real thing over diet-fascism.