Harris' last-minute border visit shows her campaign knows 'they have to do something,' CNN host says

CNN anchor Abby Phillip argued connected Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris' run has yet realized she tin nary longer "float above" the migration issue.

The vice president is reportedly readying to sojourn the U.S. confederate borderline during a sojourn to Arizona connected Friday, her archetypal sojourn to the borderline since emerging arsenic the Democratic nominee. With the last-minute sojourn to the border, Harris hopes to "counter" Trump's "advantage with voters" connected immigration, according to The New York Times.

"She’s hoping to alteration the communicative that she’s brushed connected immigration," Phillip said astatine the commencement of a sheet treatment connected the web Wednesday. 

Polls have consistently shown voters spot Trump to amended grip borderline security. Phillip cited a NBC News poll retired this week, showing Harris trailing Trump by 21 points connected securing the borderline and controlling immigration.

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Immigrants enactment up astatine a distant U.S. Border Patrol processing halfway aft crossing the U.S.-Mexico borderline connected December 7, 2023, successful Lukeville, Arizona.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Republicans person criticized Harris implicit however she's handled the borderline arsenic VP, and implicit her wide stances connected migration that she supported arsenic a California legislator and during her 2019 statesmanlike campaign.

CNN blimpish commentator Scott Jennings argued that the Harris run strategy wouldn't person Americans she would beryllium pugnacious connected migration arsenic president.

"Her views connected this are truthful obvious," helium said, referencing a precocious resurfaced 2018 video wherever then-Sen. Harris chants, "down, down with deportation."  

"Going to the borderline is not going to alteration that… they don't spot Democrats connected this issue," helium said.

CNN wide commentator Bakari Sellers argued that Harris wanted to instrumentality enactment connected the border, but was thwarted by Republicans successful Congress. He pointed to however Republicans killed the borderline bill past February, which Harris backed and has pledged to motion into law if elected successful November, according to her campaign.

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Vice President Harris is reportedly readying a sojourn to the confederate borderline connected Friday during a halt successful Arizona. (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

Whoever was to blame, Phillip concluded that Harris could nary longer debar the issue, oregon it could outgo her the election.

"One of the things astir this moment, I mean, the Harris run has conscionable been trying to interval supra it all, to interval supra the migration arguments, interval supra immoderate of the nitty-gritty details connected immoderate of this policy. But this shows that they realized they person to bash something," she said of the borderline visit.

Harris antecedently supported decriminalizing amerciable crossings astatine the borderline during the 2020 statesmanlike primaries, arguing they should beryllium a civilian discourtesy instead. 

She has backed distant from immoderate of her far-left argumentation positions since emerging arsenic the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, taking a much "pragmatic" attack to issues similar immigration.

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People enactment up against a borderline partition arsenic they hold to use for asylum aft crossing the borderline from Mexico, July 11, 2023, adjacent Yuma, Ariz.  (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Her run said successful a connection past period that Harris' views connected migration are "the aforesaid arsenic the [Biden] administration's — unauthorized borderline crossings are illegal." 

"While Donald Trump is wedded to the utmost ideas successful his Project 2025 agenda, Vice President Harris believes existent enactment means bringing each sides unneurotic to physique consensus," spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg said successful a connection past month. "It is that attack that made it imaginable for the Biden-Harris medication to execute bipartisan breakthroughs connected everything from infrastructure to weapon unit prevention. As President, she volition instrumentality that aforesaid pragmatic approach, focusing connected common-sense solutions for the involvement of progress."

Fox News' Adam Shaw and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.

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