Media Bury Kamala Harris’s Disastrous First Solo Interview
The mainstream media have buried Vice President Kamala Harris’s first solo interview in the eight weeks since she joined the presidential race, either failing to report it or claiming, falsely, that it was a great success.
Harris spoke to Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV, known as 6 ABC, and struggled to express a coherent thought as she rambled through five straightforward questions from reporter Brian Taff.
The Harris campaign trusted a local ABC affiliate after ABC News’ moderators sided with her during last week’s debate. Taff asked specific questions, but — perhaps given time constraints — did not follow up on Harris’s answers.
Asked for specific policies that would bring down costs and make life more affordable for Americans, for example, Harris talked about her supposedly middle-class upbringing, and how her neighbors cared about their lawns.
Several minutes into her answer, Harris eventually landed on a talking point about an “opportunity economy,” mentioning plans for a tax credit for small business owners and help for down payment for first-time home buyers.
Asked what made her different from President Joe Biden, Harris again struggled. She alluded to the fact that she is younger than Biden (“a new generation of leadership”) and repeated her point about the “opportunity economy.” The rest of her answer was incoherent.
The only time Harris gave a somewhat clear response, on gun control, it was contradictory: “We’re not taking anybody’s guns away,” she said, before saying that she supported an “assault weapons ban” that would do just that.
The interview reinforced fears that Harris cannot respond to unscripted questions, and suggested that her debate performance last week, which many viewers thought was strong, was the result of rehearsed answers. (Indeed, on many occasions during the debate, Harris simply evaded the question she was being asked, most notably the first question: “When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?”.)
But the mainstream media either failed to report Harris’s disastrous interview, or distorted what happened.
Deadline reported the interview under the headline: “No Mention Of Anyone Eating Pets, Kamala Harris Promises “New Generation Of Leadership” In First Solo TV Interview Since Becoming POTUS Candidate.” Reporter Dominic Patten wrote that Harris “stuck to her talking points” and “stayed focused on her pitches for the economy, giving working Americans a leg-up, gun ownership, and reducing crime.” (There was no discussion of reducing crime in the interview, and Patten ignored the fact that Harris largely evaded the question of making life more affordable.)
Newsweek published “key takeaways,” telling readers that Harris “gave specifics on her ‘opportunity economy’ plans,” when in fact Harris had avoided specifics, meandering through talking points, especially on her economic policies.
Axios.com gave a more straightforward writeup, but hid the fact that Harris could barely string a sentence together. It cleaned up one of her answers by changing the question Harris was asked. For example, reporter Sareen Habeshian wrote: “Asked about her plan for the economy, Harris pointed to her plans to provide a tax credit for starting a small business and give first-time homebuyers assistance on a down payment.” Harris was not asked about a general economic plan; she was asked for specifics about “bringing down prices and making life more affordable.”
The BBC also published a positive writeup that hid Harris’s poor performance, though it noted — unlike Axios — that when “Harris was asked how she would bring down prices for Americans,” i.e. not a general plan, she mentioned her small business and home ownership plans, and that the “price-tag for the plan and who might qualify are unclear.”
CNN, where Harris gave her first interview of any kind last month since joining the campaign in July, albeit seated alongside running mate Tim Walz, simply published the 6 ABC the interview without further commentary.
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Taylor Swift Endorsing Kamala Harris Backfires as Poll Shows More Voters ‘Much More Likely’ to Vote Trump Over Harris
A new poll shows that pop star Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president may not have moved the needle in the candidate’s favor, and, in fact, may have backfired.
Surveying 1,120 potential voters between September 11-12 with a ± 3.8% margin of error, the YouGov poll showed that a majority of voters (66 percent) said that Swift’s endorsement made no difference while only 8 percent of voters would either be “somewhat” or “much more likely” to vote for Kamala Harris due to Swift’s endorsement. Conversely, a full 20 percent said they are “somewhat” or “much more likely” to vote for former President Donald Trump.
Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president following the first debate last week, though she advised Americans to do their own research. Perhaps, many already have.
“I think the best thing about a football locker room, and kind of how I grew up in baseball locker rooms, is that people can come together and achieve a common goal,” said Mahomes. “I think that if we can do that as a nation, I think we can get the best out of each other. I think that is something I do every single day.”
“When I hang out with other people I don’t think about political views,” he continued. “I think about how they treat people. And I was with a lot of great people this weekend.”
Despite the polling, some good news did yield for Harris as a result of Swift’s endorsement, with reports indicating that she drove over 400,000 people to register on vote.gov.
Per USA Today:
As of Wednesday evening, a custom URL shared by Swift on her Instagram story that expired after 24 hours had directed 405,999 visitors to vote.gov, according to a spokesperson from the General Services Administration (GSA) speaking to USA TODAY on Thursday.
By comparison, in the week leading up to the debate, from Sep 3-9, 2024, vote.gov received about 30,000 visitors a day.
The Democrats are taking advantage of the pop star’s backing, erecting billboards in Las Vegas and New York City that read “We’re in Our Kamala Era,” a play on Swift Eras Tour.
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Last week, Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes said he will not endorse a candidate for president this election cycle, even though his wife Brittany has liked pro-Trump posts on social media.
“I’ve always said, I don’t want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a candidate — either way,” Mahomes told reporters last week. “I think my place is to get people registered [to vote], do their research and make their best decision for them and their family. Every time I get asked these questions, I’m going to refer back to that because I think that’s what makes America so great.”
Patrick Mahomes emphasized his appreciation for the fact that Americans can see people of different stripes coming together, such as when he and Brittany were seen with Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelce at the US Open tennis tournament in New York.
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Report: Most of Michigan’s ‘Uncommitted’ Won’t Support Kamala Harris
It appears Most of Michigan’s “uncommitted” community, which protested the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in the Democrat primary, will not back Vice President Kamala Harris in the general election, according to a report.
Ryan Grim, the co-host of Counter Points and editor of Drop Site News, wrote in his newsletter on Substack Friday that the temperature at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee conference in the Arab-dense city of Dearborn, Michigan, was cold toward Harris:
Much of the talk at the conference was about whether the community would wind up supporting Kamala Harris in the general election. The consensus seemed to be that the vast majority will not do so. Green Party nominee Jill Stein, ahead of Harris in some polls of Muslim voters here, even spoke on opening night and was given quite a warm welcome.
Michigan was notably where the uncommitted movement began. The “Listen to Michigan” campaign aimed to get 10,000 uncommitted votes in the Democrat primary to protest the Biden-Harris administration for a ceasefire in the war.
Listen to Michigan smashed its goal, as the uncommitted option garnered 100,000 votes, approaching the 154,188 vote margin that Biden won Michigan by against former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The movement includes Muslims, Arab Americans, young voters, and far-left progressives.
In Dearborn, Biden actually lost to the uncommitted option by a wide margin. Uncommitted drew 6,432 votes (57 percent), while Biden followed with 4,526 votes (40 percent).
The movement spread to other states, like Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, as the Biden-Harris administration failed to secure a ceasefire deal. What is more, Biden signed legislation sending $26.3 billion in defense support to Israel in April, even after the uncommitted movement had made waves in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
The divide on the left has persisted, if not worsened, despite Harris supplanting Biden at the top of the ticket in July. During her first interview with CNN, well over a month after becoming the presumptive Democrat nominee, Harris doubled down on her and Biden’s Israel policies.
She initially skirted a question from CNN’s Dana Bash about potentially withholding “some U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.” Bash followed up, asking, “But no change in policy in terms of arms and so forth?”
“No, we have to get a deal done,” Harris said.
“I remain committed — since I’ve been on October 8 — to what we must do to work toward a two-state solution where Israel is secure and, in equal measure, the Palestinians have security, self-determination, and dignity,” she went on to add.
Grim analyzed the interview the next day while hosting Breaking Points alongside the show’s regular host, Krystal Ball, and drilled down on Bash’s use of “some” in her line of question.
“The Biden administration has even said they would restrict ‘some’ weapons, like the 2,000-pound bombs used for offensive purposes,” he said.
“People keep saying that Harris is better rhetorically and more empathetic. Where’s the empathy there, when you’re actually not even standing by the tiniest of concessions that the Biden administration, her administration has made?” he added.
Grim’s report Friday also comes as Harris is losing to the Green Party’s Jill Stein and Trump with Muslim voters in Michigan, according to a poll from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The survey found that 40 percent of the Muslims who responded back Stein, 18 percent support Trump, and 12 percent back Harris. Another 21 percent are undecided.
The United Arab Emirates has notably categorized CAIR as a terrorist organization, and a U.S. federal judge ruled in 2009 that evidence existed “to establish” ties between CAIR and Hamas, as Breitbart News has noted:
In 2007-8, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. That case, in turn, led the FBI to discontinue its work with the organization. In 2009, a federal judge ruled that the government “produced ample evidence to establish” the ties of CAIR with Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization. The United Arab Emirates labeled CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014 (a decision that the Obama administration opposed).
The August 25-27 CAIR/Molitical Consulting LLC survey included 1,478 responses, “1076 of which were verified and matched to the national voter file,” and the margin of error is ±2.95 percentage points.
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Exclusive–Bernie Moreno: Sherrod Brown Resorts to Attacks Because ‘His Record Is So Abysmal’
Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday that his opponent, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), is opting for attacks over substance because “his record is so abysmal.”
Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle asked Moreno, a very successful businessman who built one of the largest auto dealership groups in the United States, about attacks Brown has levied against him regarding a lawsuit over wages at a Massachusetts dealership he used to own.
The lawsuit, from two former employees, came after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in a separate case, unrelated to Moreno, that commissioned salespeople were entitled to overtime, and the ruling was retroactively applied statewide, according to the Republican Senate nominee.
“Sherrod Brown’s never had a job that wasn’t being an elected official. So, of course, he’s going to vilify anybody who had a real job that wasn’t being paid for by the taxpayer with no accountability. So let’s just get that out of the way,” Moreno said.
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He detailed how he built his business from one dealership into fifteen, with thirty brands company-wide.
“We succeeded because I had great people working in my company,” he said. “I knew that my job was to take care of my people, and then the people who worked with me would take care of my clients. And that recipe worked.”
“We were one of the most awarded dealer groups in the country, not just because we sold a lot of cars, but because we took great care of our team members and our clients,” he added. “In fact, the Cleveland Plain Dealer rated my company one of the best places to work in Northeast Ohio multiple years in a row.”
Moreno said that Brown has “latched on to one particular case at a Massachusetts dealership in which the salespeople at a furniture store, nothing to do with me, sued the furniture store saying that commissioned salespeople were entitled to overtime.”
The lawsuit reached the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which ruled, long after Moreno had sold his dealership, that commissioned salespeople are entitled to retroactive overtime pay, affecting all commissioned businesses in the Bay State.
“The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled a year after I sold my dealership, by the way, they ruled that in Massachusetts, commission salespeople are entitled to overtime, which would have been perfectly fine because, of course, we would have followed whatever law existed at that moment in time,” he detailed.
“But they made the ruling retroactive, so they went backward and said, ‘If you don’t agree with our interpretation of wage law, you owe all this overtime,’” he continued. “Every commission business in Massachusetts was affected whether it’s a furniture store, a car dealership, not just my business,” he added.
Following that Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling, two of Moreno’s former employees brought a lawsuit against him.
“I had probably 60 salespeople during the four years I owned that dealership,” he said. “Two of them that, by the way, were the worst performing salespeople in terms of showing up on time–these were salespeople that made $150,000 to $200,000 a year. If they showed up 35 hours in the week, it was a big deal; in fact, one of them was fired because he didn’t show up to work on time. They sued me.”
“Of course, an uber-liberal Boston jury heard the case for a week and, in seven to ten minutes, decided exactly how much overtime these two salespeople were entitled to,” Moreno continued. “It was in the teens, you know, maybe 12, 13,14, $15,000 over three and a half years, between the two of them; they awarded that. And, of course, in Massachusetts, you’re subjected to crazy penalties and attorney fees, and that’s how it got $400,000.”
Moreno said the process demonstrates the importance of Supreme Court races in states that have them, like Ohio, emphasizing, “If you put radical lunatics in these courts, they’re going destroy this country.”
He added that Brown has to resort to bogus attacks instead of focusing on substance because Brown’s “record is so abysmal.”
“His record is open borders, high prices, instability all over the world, an assault on American energy, and a failure to stand up to China,” Moreno said. “That’s how we’re going to win this race: by focusing on that.”
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Mark Matson: Kamala’s Tax Policies Are an ‘American Dream Destroyer’
Mark Matson, a financial expert and author of Experiencing the American Dream, told Breitbart News Saturday Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposed policies are an “American Dream destroyer.”
Maston wrote Experiencing the American Dream: How to Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money to Create an Extraordinary Life, a book on how to invest to cultivate Americans’ financial future. The book releases on Sunday.
Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle asked if the American dream is slipping away for many Americans.
Matson responded, “We have to fight for it. This is really a fight for the future of the country. Are we going to go down the socialist, Communist road and have the Communist dream? Or, are we going to have the American Dream that’s funded by capitalism and free markets and entrepreneurship?”
The author then cited a Wall Street Journal study that the American dream largely includes:
- Owning a home
- Having a family and children
- Being able to send one’s children to college
- Being able to retire
“All of these things became more difficult under this administration,” Matson said.
Matson said that Harris has proposed many harmful policies, including higher taxes, price controls, and regulations, which run counter to the American dream.
He said these policies are “an American dream destroyer.”
Boyle then asked what policies a potential future Trump administration would have to enact to help Americans achieve their dream.
Matson said that they have to keep the Trump tax cuts, noting that if they expired, Americans may experience 20 to 30 percent higher taxes.
He also called to reduce capital gains and keep taxes on corporations low.
Matson said that Trump should have “capital gains stay at 20 percent or go down to zero. That’s already your money, you grew it to fulfill your family dreams. You should not be putting a 28 percent on corporations.”
With lower corporate rates, Matson said that more businesses would “want to come to America and create jobs.”
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NYT Removes Nazi Language from Headline of Criticism of JD Vance
The New York Times removed a controversial headline of a column critical of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s running mate.
The original headline – “JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Nationalism Finds Its Target” – used a term closely associated with the Nazi Party during Adolf Hitler’s reign of Germany.
The use of “blood and soil” generated an immediate backlash of accusations that the paper tied Vance’s America First policies with German nationalism espoused by the Nazi party.
The heat appears to have spurred the paper to edit its headline to “Shouldn’t JD Vance Represent All of Ohio?”
But screenshots of the original headline live on.
The New York Times and other establishment media outlets have overwhelmingly given Trump and Vance negative coverage, while praising Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN).
The outlet praised Harris for her supposed decisive debate night victory Tuesday, despite polls conducted after the debate showing Trump continued to rise.
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.
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Robert De Niro Rants to CNN: Trump Will Never Give Up Power ; ‘He Thinks He’s a Gangster’
Left-wing Hollywood star Robert De Niro is back to publicly trash-talking former President Donald Trump.
After a relatively brief absence from the spotlight following his disastrous New York press conference in May, Robert De Niro is hitting the campaign trail in service of Kamala Harris, appearing in a recent Italian-American themed “Paisans for Kamala” fundraiser on Sunday and in an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace on Friday.
At one point, Chris Wallace asked the actor if he thinks Trump won’t ever relinquish power if he is re-elected in November.
“You know he won’t,” De Niro replied. “He even said it. He’s never going to give it up. And anyone who deludes himself thinking that he is, shame on you!”
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De Niro appeared to be referring to a book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman in which it is alleged that then-President Trump said “we’re never leaving” following reports of widespread irregularities and fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
It remains unclear if Trump ever said those words. What is undisputed is that Trump in fact did leave power following the 2020 election.
During the Wallace interview, De Niro was asked about having repeatedly compared the Trump family to a family of gangsters.
“He thinks he’s a gangster,” the actor replied. “He does everything like a gangster. I don’t think gangsters of that world would think much of him because there’s honor among thieves.”
As Breitbart News reported, Robert De Niro has hit the campaign trail for Kamala Harris.
The actor led a group of Italian-Americans during a “Paisans for Kamala” live stream fundraiser Sunday meant to generate support and donations for the Democrat candidate. The event raised a reported $40,000 and saw De Niro issue a warning to Democrats heading into the election.
While De Niro described himself as being “very optimistic” about the election, he advised people: “it ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
The actor has publicly spoken about his fears over a possible second Trump presidency.
In March, De Niro told Bill Maher that if Trump wins in November, he “will come looking for me.”
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EXCLUSIVE: CBP One App Migrants Released into U.S. — No Asylum Questions Asked
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The Biden-Harris administration released a Venezuelan migrant and his family onto the streets of Eagle Pass after they entered the U.S. via the CBP One cell phone app. The migrants said they were asked no questions regarding asylum or credible fear before being released into the U.S.
Rodrigo, a Venezuelan national who did not want his real name revealed, and his family roamed the streets of Eagle Pass Thursday night in search of a place to sleep. After failing to find any open migrant shelters and with no money, Rodrigo was stuck looking for a place where his children might be able to sleep. Having just been let into the United States earlier in the day, he says he was not required to claim asylum with CBP officers at the port of entry or answer any asylum-related questions to gain entry under the Biden-Harris CBP One program.
Rodrigo’s wife was teary-eyed as the family walked the streets, hoping to find shelter. Together, the family of four, which included Rodrigo’s 14-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son, had walked nearly five miles across the city. With no money for food or a hotel, the family had resigned themselves to finding an open convenience store where the children might sleep as Rodrigo watched over them.
Breitbart Texas encountered the family more than four miles from the Eagle Pass Camino Real Port of Entry, where they had been admitted into the United States and released under the Biden-Harris CBP One asylum program more than eight hours earlier in the day. Rodrigo said the family had waited for a CBP One appointment in Mexico for two months. He said the time was spent making numerous attempts on the smartphone CBP One application hoping to garner four of the 1,450 daily appointment slots that allow migrants to gain release into the United States.
The program allows migrants to enter the United States without having to complete a formal credible fear hearing before an asylum officer. Rather than providing the rationale for requesting asylum, during a brief interview, Rodrigo told Breitbart Texas that the topic of asylum was not even brought up. Rodrigo says he was merely required to prove he was the father of his children and that Myrna was his wife.
When asked if he was required to present a verbal claim of asylum during his admission processing or to tell CBP officers why he left his country or what he feared in his country, Rodrigo said, “No, they didn’t interview us like that.”
Rodrigo says he funded his trip from southern Mexico and did not travel on a recently established Secure Emerging Mobility Corridor busing program that provides free travel, food, and security for those who have a CBP One appointment at one of eight land ports of entry along the southwest border. As reported by Breitbart, this program was initiated by the government of Mexico after a series of bi-national meetings between the AMLO government and the Biden-Harris administration that expanded the geographical capabilities of the CBP One application to southern Mexico.
The CBP One smartphone application is separate from the recently reinstituted Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan program, which allows up to 1,000 migrants to fly into the United States daily. Between the two Biden-Harris programs, more than 800,000 migrants are released into the United States yearly to allegedly pursue asylum claims or under parole status.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @RandyClarkBBTX.
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Report: Alleged Chinese Spy Who Worked for Kathy Hochul Toured White House While Under Investigation
A former aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) who is allegedly a Chinese spy reportedly toured the White House in May.
Linda Sun was reportedly under federal investigation at the time, the New York Post reported on Friday, noting, “The May 8 visit was facilitated by Sun’s former boss, Queens Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), the congresswoman’s office confirmed Friday.”
Sun previously worked as a high-ranking aide for Hochul and disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
The Post article continued:
Last week, Sun, 41, and her husband, Christopher Hu, 40, who also is listed on White House visitor logs, were slapped with sprawling charges of violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy. They have pleaded not guilty.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors allege Sun used her position under Hochul and Cuomo to turn the governor’s office into a virtual mouthpiece for the People’s Republic of China and Chinese Community Party.
In exchange, she allegedly received gifts and millions of dollars in bribes — which she and her hubby used to buy real estate, including their Manhasset mansion, and luxury cars like a 2024 Ferrari Roma.
Before the FBI arrested Sun and Hu, the agency raided their home in July, according to Breitbart News:
The outlet also reported that the couple was eventually arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn. The outlet then detailed some of the accusations against Sun:
Sun, in various instances, allegedly prevented Cuomo and Hochul from working, engaging, and speaking with Taiwanese officials. At the same time, Sun allegedly had Cuomo and Hochul make seemingly pro-China statements to appease CCP officials.
During the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in April 2020, for example, the Taiwanese government donated 200,000 masks to New York. When Taiwanese officials pressed why then-Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office had not made any public announcement about the donation, Sun allegedly phoned her contact in the CCP to make them aware that Hochul would be only privately calling to thank such Taiwanese officials for the donation.
Several New York Republicans are now calling for an investigation into Hochul after Sun, a naturalized American citizen who was born in China, was arrested, according to Breitbart News.
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Exclusive — Jim Jordan: Americans Are Witnessing the Consequences of an Open Border
The American people are witnessing the consequences of an open border under Vice President Kamala Harris’s leadership, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, noting that the United States went from a “secure border to no border.”
This week, Republicans in Congress had victims of migrant crime testify, and Jordan described it as “tough to listen to.”
“They were great witnesses, don’t get me wrong. But it was just the terrible things that happened to these three young ladies, and then, of course, the one young man, the son … his mom talked about one time he used fentanyl and it took his life, and he was — it was a good young man — 15-year-old freshman in high school,” he said.
“It’s just powerful stories that underscore what happens when you have an open border. And I tell everyone, literally, we went from a secure border to no border, and you’re seeing it play out,” he said, noting that some of the illegal migrants who have come into the country are on the terrorist watch list.
All of this has resulted in “terrible crime that happened to the families that we had testify this week … and others around the country.”
“And then, of course, you got the situation where you have the stress on your education system, your health care system, your housing market, like we have in Springfield, Ohio, where you have what some estimates are 20,000 Haitians come into a community of 60,000,” he said. “So this is what happens when you don’t have a border, when you have a commander-in-chief and an administration who simply will not enforce the law,” he explained, emphasizing that Harris is at fault, as she and Biden let millions into the country.
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“[They] let 10 million people come in the country — 10 million migrants, 99 on the terrorist watch list. Many of them have done terrible things like you heard from this past week in our hearing, and she was the border czar,” he said of Harris, explaining that they stopped deciding requests for temporary parole on a case-by-case basis and just opened it up instead.
“Instead, what they said is, we’re going to just open it up for categories of people. And so for Cubans, for Haitians, for Venezuelans, and people from Honduras, they just let them come in — 300,000 from Cuba, 20,000 of them are in Springfield, Ohio. So this is the failed policy that are impacting, again, not just border communities, but every community,” he said, noting that Harris can say what she wants, but the American people “have eyes” and “can see what’s going on.”
When asked how this can be turned around, Jordan said it all comes down to the election and electing former President Donald Trump.
“It’s that simple. Look, we have to win. If we don’t take the Senate, we don’t win the White House and keep the House, they’ll do more of this. … Everyone understands that you cannot just bring in — in a short period of time — 20,000 people into a community of 60,000 and not impact, as you said, the education system, the healthcare system, the housing market,” he said of the news out of Springfield, Ohio.
Jordan said he received a call from a friend in that community this week who told him that there are issues with car accidents “because so many people can’t drive, and they’re not trained to drive, yet they do.”
“This is what happens when you have an administration who takes the position that this administration took from day one, day one,” he said, noting that the Biden-Harris administration dismantled the secure border by ceasing work on the wall, nixing Remain in Mexico, and adding parole authority for certain countries and allowing those people to come in.
“You do those things, you are going to get 10 million. You are going to get what we have now in our country, and the impact it has on our community, and the American people said ‘enough.’ And then when they come in, all the benefits they get with your tax dollars, with American tax money, that’s what’s so frustrating to the American people,” Jordan said. “Again, I think this starts to get through to the voters, and I think it’s why President Trump’s gonna be our next president.”
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