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Axios, a far-left news outlet, claimed in a report on Tuesday that Kamala Harris is now all on board with the idea of building a wall on the southern U.S. border.
The report, titled, “Harris flip-flops on building the border wall,” begins with the following:
If she’s elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called “un-American” during the Trump administration.
Why it matters: It’s the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking — proposals that aides say she now is against.
Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump’s campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the border.
Axios refers to Harris’s DNC acceptance speech, in which she declared that she would sign a recently-defeated bipartisan border security bill, which “requires hundreds of millions of dollars of unspent funds to be used to continue building a wall on the border.”
The claim that Kamala Harris would build a border wall is being slapped down, and many people are reminding of what she wrote on Twitter in 2020.
“As I said, Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer,” Harris declared in February 2020.
As I said, Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer.https://t.co/YFK7yb3SHX
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 2, 2020
The Trump campaign released the following statement:
Kamala Harris now wants voters to think she “flip-flopped” on the border wall.
Kamala has always been consistent when it comes to border security, she supports open borders and is opposed to a border wall.
She has called the wall “un-American,” a “waste of taxpayer money,” “medieval,” and said it isn’t going to “stop” illegal immigration.
As a senator, she tried to block President Trump’s construction of the border wall.
And as Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall.
Maybe if Kamala Harris sat down for an interview she could explain her views on the border wall, until then we can only look to her record of supporting open borders.
Kamala’s record and her most recent statements prove she is a radical open-borders lunatic who wants to give citizenship to 20M illegals — with voting rights and taxpayer-funded benefits included.
It’s not a flip-flop. It’s a lie.
Cc @AlexThomp @HansNichols pic.twitter.com/vHbzGCuAgn
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 27, 2024
The Trump campaign blasted out a video ad with footage of Harris repeatedly declaring she wouldn’t build a wall under any circumstances, and called it a “medivial vanity protect.”
Kamala Harris is WEAK.
Kamala Harris is FAILED.
Kamala Harris is DANGEROUSLY LIBERAL. pic.twitter.com/oYacWWtLZH
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 27, 2024
Trump advisor Jason Miller fired back at the Axios authors, writing, “This is total bullshit @Axios @AlexThomp @HansNichols. Harris hasn’t flip-flopped on anything. You guys got duped by anonymous staff sources. Harris opposes the wall, has always opposed the wall, and stopped wall construction as VP!”
This is total bullshit @Axios @AlexThomp @HansNichols.
Harris hasn’t flip-flopped on anything. You guys got duped by anonymous staff sources. Harris opposes the wall, has always opposed the wall, and stopped wall construction as VP! https://t.co/HDtZ7ktB94
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) August 27, 2024
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) also reacted, declaring, “Everyone knows the only thing Kamala will do with a border wall is tear it down.”
Everyone knows the only thing Kamala will do with a border wall is tear it down. https://t.co/wugtPwq0hq
— Rep. Darrell Issa (@repdarrellissa) August 27, 2024
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