News Networks Provide Dueling Chyrons and Plenty of Pundits to Cover Kamala Harris’ Border Visit – DNyuz

By the time Kamala Harris took the stage to speak about her visit to the southern border tonight, the chyrons were ready.

Her speech was billed as a major attempt to get through to rival Donald Trump’s signature issue and perhaps her biggest weakness as a candidate.

All three cable news networks carried the speech. Fox News, center Jesse Watters Primetimewent to do some editing work while Harris laid out her plans. “Why hasn’t she done this yet?” it read. CNN read: “Harris speaks at southern border and takes Trump head-on.” MSNBC read: “Harris hits Trump for killing bipartisan border bill.”

“It was actually a broad and substantive speech from a policy perspective,” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said just as Harris wrapped up the 25-minute speech before turning to the guests with analysis.

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While the economy is the top issue for voters, Trump supporters also put immigration at the top of the list, while Harris supporters mention abortion, according to Pew Research. Harris’s decision-making visit to the border risked putting the Biden administration’s record in the spotlight, but also gave her a chance to try to turn the tables on her rival.

Harris has spent much of her campaign hammering Trump over the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, but she also attacked him for skirting a bipartisan border bill. Trump came out against the legislation, but almost ensured that it would stall in the Senate.

In her speech tonight, Harris said Trump “messed up. He picked up the phone, called some friends in Congress and said, ‘Stop the bill,’ because he prefers to address a problem rather than solve a problem.”

During her speech at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona, Harris pledged to sign the border bill and strengthen prosecution of gangs and fentanyl traffickers, and said she will take “further action” to “keep the border closed between the ports of entry. ” Those who cross the border unlawfully will be removed and barred from returning for five years, while more serious criminal charges will be brought against those who repeatedly offend. Those who do not submit a request for asylum at a legal port of entry cannot be granted asylum.

She also took aim at Trump’s record on the border, telling the crowd: “In the four years Donald Trump was president, he did nothing to fix our broken immigration system. He has not solved the immigration judge shortage. He has not solved the border agent shortage. He has not created legal avenues of entry into our nation. He has done nothing to address an outdated asylum system.”

She added: “He has made the problems at the border worse, and he continues to fan the flames of fear and division.” She went on to call Trump’s record an “inability to lead.” Trump has called for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, and this week he called for migrants in Springfield, Ohio to be sent back to their countries of origin, even though most of them are in the US legally. “You’ve got to get the hell out of them,” he said at one meeting.

Trump and his campaign spent much of the day attacking Harris and blaming her for the crisis. “Kamala’s last-minute trip to the border and empty calls for greater security 39 days before the election will not rewrite the past 44 months of chaos, crime and bloodshed caused by her open border policy,” a campaign spokesman said.

While she took a tough stance against transnational gangs, Harris cited her role as a local prosecutor and prosecutor in California, as she was a district attorney in San Francisco and later the state’s attorney general. But she spent relatively little time in her role as vice president, as she was tasked with leading diplomatic efforts in Central America and Mexico in hopes of addressing the causes of migration. However, Trump and his allies have dubbed her the “border czar,” even though that was not her official title.

Following her speech, Watters stated that Harris “doesn’t take it seriously at all. It’s the first time she’s ever been to the border.” It was the first time of her campaign as she visited El Paso in 2021.

“She says we need to reform our immigration system,” Watters said. “The Democrats had the White House, Congress and Senate for the first two years. They never touched it.”

Trump still holds a large lead in opinion polls on who can best handle the issue of immigration, which has been the source of his attacks since the start of his first presidential run in 2016.

Harris presents herself as a provider of “common sense solutions,” taking a much harder line than her 2020 presidential candidate and hoping to make gains in a key swing state. Will it work? On CNN, Margaret Hoover, the conservative commentator and host of PBS’ Firelinecredited Harris for offering a more realistic plan.

“He says he’s going to round up eleven million people and ship them out, right?” she said. ‘You have to take them both and what they say at face value, and consider what is real and what is not. What she says is much more credible than what he says.”

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