Kamala Harris tried to rescue her floundering Presidential campaign.
But Kamala Harris flubbed it.
And Kamala Harris left Anderson Cooper at a loss for words with these seven words about the border.
Kamala Harris’ botched border answer
In a night filled with terrible answers, Kamala Harris’ response to CNN host Anderson Cooper’s question about the border at her town hall event stuck out as especially disastrous.
Kamala Harris served the last three-and-a-half years as border czar, during which time Kamala Harris allowed more than 10,000,000 illegal aliens to stroll across the border.
Host Anderson Cooper tried to give Kamala Harris a chance to break with Joe Biden and explain to the American people how she would clean up the mess she made.
Instead, Kamala Harris fell back in her support for the amnesty bill she and Mitch McConnell tried to ram through Congress earlier this year.
“America’s immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed and has been broken for a long time,” Kamala stated.
Kamala Harris’ border betrayal bill would have allowed her to admit nearly 2,000,000 illegal aliens per year and hand them a golden ticket for amnesty.
Cooper tried again to nudge Kamala Harris into admitting she and Biden made a mistake at the border and pledge to do better if given another four years in office.
“You talk about the bill that Donald Trump squashed. That was in 2024,” Cooper followed up offering a fact-check of the timeframe. “2022, 2023 there were record border crossings.”
“Your administration took a number of hundreds of executive actions that didn’t stem the flow. Numbers kept going up,” Cooper added, pointing out that she and Biden imposed 91 executive orders that essentially opened the border.
“Finally, in 2024, just in June, three weeks before the first presidential debate with Joe Biden, you institute executive actions that had a dramatic impact, really shut down people crossing over. Why didn’t your administration do that in 2022, 2023?” Cooper asked.
Kamala Harris then fell back on how Biden tried to play smoke and mirrors with immigration executive orders to try and make it look like there was a crackdown on phony asylum claims.
“First of all, you’re exactly right, Anderson, and as of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half,” Harris replied.
Cooper kept trying to keep Kamala Harris on point
“But if it was that easy with that executive action, why not do it in 2022, 2023?” Cooper wondered.
Kamala Harris gave a nonsensical answer, claiming they were waiting on Congress to pass the amnesty bill she and Joe Biden proposed when her previous answer indicated Democrats could have solved the border crisis at any time through executive orders.
“Because we were working with Congress and hoping that actually, we could have a long-term fix to the problem, instead of the short-term fix,” Harris stated.
“You couldn’t have done one and both at the same time?” an exasperated Cooper pressed.
Kamala Harris then claimed a permanent fix required Congress.
“We have to understand that ultimately, this problem is going to be fixed through congressional action. Congress has the authority and the purse. I hate to use DC terms, but literally, they write the checks. Part of the issue is in order to really fix the problem at the border,” Harris declared.
But if Kamala Harris just left Donald Trump’s border policies in place, there wouldn’t have been a crisis in the first place.
Cooper tried one last time to prompt Kamala to break with Biden on the border.
“Do you wish you had done those executive orders in 2022, 2023?” Cooper pleaded.
But Kamala refused to take the hint.
Instead, she delivered one of the most politically-damning answers of her entire campaign.
“I think we did the right thing,” Kamala Harris said of opening the border.
