Harris is trying to turn the tables on Trump by making the border a key issue

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Vice President Kamala Harris has taken an aggressive step to close Donald Trump’s lead in the polls on immigration. On Friday, he traveled to the southern border for the first time as a Democratic candidate to outline her plans to address what she described as a decades-long problem.

During her trip to the swing state of Arizona, Harris excoriated Trump for his role earlier this year in the failure of a border security bill that was the product of months of bipartisan negotiations.

It was one of Harris’ most specific policy speeches since she became a Democratic candidate, in which she tried to use her past as California’s attorney general to prove she has what it takes to attack Trump on his signature question.

This is the strongest border security law we have seen in decades. It was endorsed by the Border Patrol union. And it should be in effect today and delivering real-time results for our country right now, she said at a rally in Douglas, a city on the U.S. border with Mexico.

But Donald Trump failed. He picked up the phone, called friends in Congress and told them, “Stop the bill,” she said. He would rather tackle a problem than solve it. And the American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than political games and his personal political future.

The former president responded to Harris’ trip to the border by escalating his own rhetoric on immigration. Highlighting the violent crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, Trump told the crowd in Walker, Michigan, that Harris had committed these horrors.

She has unleashed these atrocities and the blood is on her hands at a level that probably no one in this country has ever seen, he said.

Trump also falsely accused Democrats again of allowing people to enter the country illegally because they want to get votes. Non-citizens cannot vote in US elections, a reality ignored by Trump, who has lied for years about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

The Democratic offensive on immigration and border security is an attempt to attack one of Trump’s clearest political advantages. A CNN poll conducted by SSRS and released this week found that 49% of likely voters trust the former president to handle immigration, while 35% trust Harris.

Harris also laid out proposals Friday to strengthen restrictions that largely prevent migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. And she said she would seek pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

They are American in every sense. But they still don’t have an earned path to citizenship. And this problem hasn’t been solved for decades, Harris said.

The fight over immigration and border security comes so late in a presidential race that has seen a shift in focus from candidates in both parties.

Dozens of people were killed when Hurricane Helene tore through the southeast of the country, causing widespread flooding. Meanwhile, Israel stepped up its fight against Hezbollah by attacking a building in Lebanon that it said housed rockets.

And vice presidential candidates from both parties are preparing to take center stage next week, as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance meet Tuesday night for their only debate.

With less than six weeks until Election Day, the 2024 presidential map is still confusing, with seven battleground states coming into focus.

A new CNN poll conducted Friday by SSRS showed Harris with a comfortable lead in a single Electoral College vote in Nebraska that could have outsized consequences.

Nebraska awards one Electoral College vote to the winner of each congressional district. The Omaha-based 2nd District poll showed Harris leading in the state’s most liberal region, with 53% support to Trump’s 42%.

That one electoral vote could be crucial if Harris sweeps away the blue wall in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but loses the four Sun Belt swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina. That could give him 269 Electoral College votes and one more vote from Nebraska could give him the 270 needed to win the White House.

Another CNN poll, conducted by SSRS and released Friday, found the two candidates in North Carolina tied at 48% each. Trump will have limited paths to victory if he fails to make North Carolina the state where he had his narrowest margin of victory in 2020. And the CNN poll found that the Republican nominee for office was trailing the scandal-plagued governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, far behind his nominee. Democratic rival as the party questions whether Robinson could hurt the overall GOP ticket in November.

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee held a news conference Friday ahead of Harris’ visit to Arizona, with three mothers of people killed by undocumented immigrants or an accidental fentanyl overdose blaming the vice president for what they describe as a lack of responsibility for border security.

This is not a safe time for Americans. Kamala Harris has not acknowledged my daughter’s death, says Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, who was raped and murdered by a 23-year-old Salvadoran citizen. Rachel Morin was herself a mother of five children.

She arrives too late to discuss this matter. She could do something at any moment, said Anne Fundner, a Southern California mother whose 15-year-old son Weston died of a fentanyl overdose.

The call was intended to cast doubt on Harris’ proposals to address border security, as Trump claims she and President Joe Biden have had four years to do so and failed.

After a dramatic decline, border crossings are currently at their lowest levels since 2020. U.S. officials have touted consecutive months of low border crossings, citing a recent executive action to restrict asylum seekers’ access to the southern border.

Republicans have portrayed Harris as the Biden administration’s border czar, overstating the president’s narrower 2021 mission to tackle the root causes of migration in Central America.

Harris tried to leverage another part of his resume Friday: his tenure as California attorney general. She highlighted efforts to pursue members of transnational criminal organizations, including traveling to Mexico City with other attorneys general to share intelligence on gangs and cartels.

Ending transnational criminal organizations and strengthening our borders are nothing new to me, and it has long been a priority of mine, she said. I have done this work and will continue to consider it a priority.

CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez, Ali Main, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Kit Maher contributed to this report.

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