Harris Heads South
25th June 2021
Harris long resisted taking the trip down south, but her position became increasingly untenable with each disastrous interview and skyrocketing numbers of illegal border crossers. She referred to a potential border visit as a ‘grand gesture.’ The VP then caused an uproar when she dismissed NBC’s Lester Holt’s reminder that she had not been to the border: ‘And I haven’t been to Europe. I mean, I don’t understand the point you are making.’ She would later snap at a Univision reporter who asked if she had a specific date in mind for a border visit. Around the same time, Customs and Border Patrol announced they encountered more than 180,000 illegal border crossers in May.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff insisted that his wife’s decision to go to El Paso was not influenced by politics, saying in an interview, ‘Kamala Harris is not driven by any political issues or political pressure.’ It’s hard to believe, however, that the string of negative headlines about Harris’s refusal to visit the border had nothing to do with the seemingly quickly scheduled trip.
Whenever a politician (or the spouse of a politician) tells you something, believe the opposite.