How being the ‘border czar’ became Kamala Harris’ biggest risk

At the same time, the murder of Laken Rileya 22-year-old nursing student, and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, reportedly from illegal migrants from Venezuela, have caused widespread uproar among voters. Trump has accused Mr Harris of having “blood on her hands”.

The vice president has tried to distance himself from the Biden administration’s record, with mixed success. Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist against Trump, praised Ms. Harris for running on “the most conservative border policy platform” in modern Democratic history.

“I don’t want to suggest that it was nothing more than a battlefield conversion for them,” he told The Telegraph.

“But the great thing is that you have a woman of color, a black woman, leading the Democratic party out of the impasse over the identity politics that they’ve put themselves in.”

In September, Mrs. Harris made her first trip to the border in three yearspromising to ban those who tried to enter the US illegally and jail repeat offenders.

$650 million wall

In an effort to shift blame for illegal immigration to Trump, she said she would revive a Republican-sabotaged bill that would limit the number of daily border crossings.

Its provisions mean Ms. Harris supports spending $650 million on a border wall to repel migrants.

It was a transformation for Ms. Harris, who had once called the wall a “vanity project,” and a sign of how the immigration issue has sunk in with voters. During Trump’s first term in the White House, Democrats had fiercely opposed the wall.

Although polls show Harris chipping away at Trump’s lead on immigration, the Republican has maintained a significant lead on this issue throughout the race.

After sparking outrage among Democrats and liberal commentators since he emerged as a political force nearly a decade ago, Trump has once again broken the news cycle with proposals that Ms. Harris could not or would not follow.

During the only presidential debate in September It was generally assumed that he had performed worse than his Democratic rival. But he had the quote of the night when he attacked Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

‘They eat the dogs. They eat the cats,” he claimed. “They eat the pets of the people who live there.”