After Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he would not run for a second presidential term, Vice President Kamala Harris has all but secured enough delegate support to become the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024. As the showdown between Harris and former President Donald Trump looms, many media outlets and government websites appear to be trying to hide Harris’ record during her time in office in order to improve her chances of winning the November election.
“Literally as far left as you can go.”
For now, the media seems to be fixated on a technical issue regarding the title of border control officer.
In March 2021, Biden asked Harris to identify the “root causes” of the crisis on the southern border, and Harris appeared to accept the challenge, tweeting at the time, “@POTUS has asked me to lead diplomatic efforts with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala & Honduras. To address the situation on our southern border, we must address the root causes of migration. Not an easy job, but necessary.”
Because “studying the root causes of immigration” is a bit of a stretch to repeat, Harris has colloquially come to be known as the border czar, a moniker that has also been adopted by the media. montage It’s been trending on social media lately.
Now, in the summer of 2024, with millions of migrants flocking to the southern border on Harris’ watch and a tough election with President Trump looming, those same media outlets are trying to retroactively erase the border secretary label from Harris’ political resume.
“Kamala Harris was not Biden’s ‘border secretary.’ This is what she actually did.” time Tuesday headlines.
“The VP and the border: Kamala Harris’ role was never ‘secretary for border affairs,'” another reporter said. New York Daily News.
“Harris has never been in charge of the border or appointed as ‘Minister for Borders’,” the immigration expert said. USA TodayThis suggests that so-called “immigration experts” may have esoteric insights into a widely shared designation.
Axios in particular has been accused of gaslighting on the issue. On Wednesday, Axios took to social media to Tweet Harris “did not actually hold the title” of “Minister for Border Affairs.” article An April 2021 article from the outlet explicitly referred to Harris as Biden’s appointed “Secretary for Border Affairs.”
Axios then I’m sorry Sort of. The outlet’s article, which claimed “border unrest has dogged” Harris’ fledgling campaign, was updated Wednesday to add an editor’s note that read: “This story has been updated to clarify that Axios was among the news organizations that erroneously called Harris a ‘border czar’ in 2021.”
Trump has already made Harris’ failure to contain the border crisis a major focus of his campaign: “Since she was appointed ‘Secretary for Border Affairs’ in March of 2021, she has willfully undermined America’s borders and laws, allowing millions of illegal immigrants to enter our country and countless Americans to be killed by immigration crimes,” Trump said in a conference call with reporters this week, according to the report. New York Post.
In addition to conveniently forgetting Harris’ nickname as border secretary, some of the enthusiastic promoters of her candidacy also seem to have tried to hide her far-left voting record as a senator from California in 2019. Government Truck Harris said:Most liberal“Of the 100 U.S. Senators, Norah O’Donnell on CBS When I mentioned the GovTrack rating later during my interview with Harris, she predictably responded with nervous laughter.
But at some point, Government TruckX CEO, a purportedly nonpartisan government transparency website, removed the “Most Liberal” ranking from Harris’ old page. Elon Musk was appalled, claiming that “they’re hell-bent on wiping out the internet,” and described Harris as “literally as left-wing as you can get.”
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