The Trump campaign is now reportedly disputing media assertions that Vice President Kamala Harris has altered her stance on the construction of a border wall.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, claimed that the Harris campaign is attempting to obfuscate the vice president’s immigration record by labeling Harris as “pro-open border.”
After Axios published a story titled “Harris flip-flops on building the border wall,” Leavitt issued a statement.
“How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President Trump’s border wall – this is a preposterous and false claim,” Leavitt said.
“Kamala’s RECORD proves she is pro-open border. She called the wall ‘un-American,’ a ‘waste of taxpayer money,’ ‘medieval,’ and said it isn’t going to ‘stop’ illegal immigration. As a senator, Kamala tried to block President Trump’s construction of the border wall. As Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall,” she continued.
🚨Trump Campaign Statement on Open Border Kamala Harris
How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President… pic.twitter.com/IzMfNVPtQ9
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) August 27, 2024
Harris’ endorsement of a bipartisan border bill has been depicted in the liberal media narrative as a shift in favor of advocating for a wall along the southern boundary.
A team of lawmakers, including Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, negotiated the measure, which was eventually defeated in Congress earlier this year.
The proposed legislation would reduce border wall expenditure to a mere fraction of the $18 billion that Trump requested during his term. It would allocate $650 million toward the border wall, which is significantly less than Trump’s request.
The legislation would establish a number of regulations that border experts have predicted would exacerbate the crisis at the border, in addition to limiting the funds required to construct the border wall.
The measure would only compel the Department of Homeland Security to take emergency action on the border if the number of encounters exceeds an average of 5,000 per day for seven consecutive days or 8,500 encounters in a single day.
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