Harris heads to the US southern border, looking to close a polling gap with Trump
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Vice President Kamala Harris plans to go on the offensive against former President Donald Trump on immigration Friday when she visits the southern border in Arizona, campaign aides told CNN, as she tries to turn a political vulnerability on its head.
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to go on the offensive against former President Donald Trump on immigration Friday when she visits the southern border in Arizona, campaign aides told CNN, as she tries to turn a political vulnerability on its head. Immigration has featured prominently in the 2024 presidential election, with polls showing voters placing more trust in Trump to handle the issue than Harris. Democrats, grappling with years of border crises, have tried to gain ground by pointing to the bipartisan border measure that congressional Republicans blocked earlier this year after Trump came out against it. Advisers to the vice president remain concerned about the gap between the candidates on immigration. But they also cite recent polling showing Trump’s lead on the issue eroding since Harris took over from President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket – providing them an opportunity, they say, to amplify their message and close the gap further. Trump alluded to his current polling edge Thursday as he slammed his rival ahead of her visit to the border. “Why would she go to the border now, playing right into the hand of her opponent?” the former president told reporters at Trump Tower in New York. “She keeps talking about how she supposedly wants to fix the border. We would merely ask: ‘Why didn’t she do it four years ago?’”
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