From: NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.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: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:47:15 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 13:20:24 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>On 2024-10-09 04:41, NoBody wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 10:40:38 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Because it spent a bunch of money that did nothing to address the
>> problem?
>Then that would have HELPED his election chances, wouldn't it?
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