From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Kamela Harris on 60 minutes = FAIL
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 16:08:14 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-10-08 15:48, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <ve429f$2a261$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>
>> On 2024-10-08 11:17, Skeeter wrote:
>>> In article <ve3qqm$28i14$7@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>>>
>>>> On 2024-10-08 10:34, NoBody wrote:
>>>>> Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed by CBS News' Bill Whitaker
>>>>> about whether it was a "mistake" for the Biden administration to go
>>>>> soft on its border policies during a tense exchange on Monday's
>>>>> special election episode of "60 Minutes."
>>>>>
>>>>> "You recently visited the southern border and embraced President
>>>>> Biden's recent crackdown on asylum seekers, and that crackdown
>>>>> produced an almost immediate and dramatic decrease in the number of
>>>>> border crossings," Whitaker said. "If that's the right answer now, why
>>>>> didn't your administration take those steps in 2021?"
>>>>>
>>>>> "The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken
>>>>> immigration system, knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we
>>>>> need Congress to act. It was not taken up," Harris responded. "Fast
>>>>> forward to a moment when a bipartisan group of members of the United
>>>>> States Senate, including one of the most conservative members of the
>>>>> United States Senate, got together, came up with a border security
>>>>> bill.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Well, guess what happened? Donald Trump got word that this bill was
>>>>> afoot and could be passed, and he wants to run on a problem instead of
>>>>> fixing a problem. So he told his buddies in Congress, 'Kill the bill,
>>>>> don't let it move forward.'"
>>>>>
>>>>> "I've been covering the border for years, and so I know this is not a
>>>>> problem that started with your administration," Whitaker said. "But
>>>>> there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across
>>>>> the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter
>>>>> of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump."
>>>>>
>>>>> "Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you
>>>>> did?" Whitaker then asked.
>>>>>
>>>>> "It's a long-standing problem, and solutions are at hand, and from day
>>>>> one, literally, we have been offering solutions," Harris responded.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.foxnews.com/media/60-minutes-asks-harris-whether-mistake-biden-admin-go-soft-border-vp-repeatedly-dodges?fbclid=IwY2xjawFyTABleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU7b1A3i67zYH1ZuuRcDgOkGCtU25HYve9RL5lNUqEw1DXjdyJOP88WFjg_aem_oRywo9a6LtumpPT67x6Nsw
>>>>>
>>>>> No she has not offered solutions. That bill did nothing to strengthen
>>>>> the border and repeating the lie doesn't make it true.
>>>>
>>>> If the bill did nothing to strengthen the border...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ...why did Trump want it killed?
>>>
>>> What a dumb question.
>>
>> Explain why you think so.
>
> Why would he support a border bill that had very little to do with the
> border?
If it was as terrible as was claimed, why would he oppose it?