Unlike Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris has no problem appearing before an interviewer for the CBS news show 60 Minutes.
During the event, the Vice President repeated many of the same responses about her economic plans and voter perceptions of her that she had said on both the campaign trails and earlier interviews.
The one comment that stood out to me watching it was Ms. Harris, when questioned about immigration and the inflow of immigrants at the southern border at the beginning of the Biden/Harris Administration, rightly reminded the interviewer, twice, that their first legislative proposal to Congress was for…wait for it…immigration reform.
“The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken immigration system. Knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we need Congress to act. It was not taken up.”
Personally, the 60 Minutes reporter erred by pointing out that crossings quadrupled during the first three years of the Biden/Harris Administration compared to the last year of the Trump/Pence one. COVID-19 Title 42 quarantine measures were in place that the Biden/Harris Administration initially continued. That is why border crossings seemed to explode until recent Biden Executive Orders.
Calling it “A long-standing problem and solutions are at hand,” the Vice President reminded the interviewer “From Day One literally, we have been offering solutions…The policies we have been about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem.”
She also rightly pointed out that crossings have dropped since President Biden had to resort to an Executive Order to cut down on illegal immigration and fentanyl border traffic.
She reaffirmed that Congress has a responsibility, rather than relying on Presidential Executive Orders, to pass a permanent solution to the problem and chastised Congressional Republicans for backing out of a border security bill at the behest of Donald Trump.
Late last month in an appearance at the Arizona/Mexico border in Douglas, the Vice President reminded the attendees that during his four-year term, Mr. Trump and his Republican supporters in Congress did nothing, other than Executive Orders (several of them found unconstitutional,) to pass immigration reform.
Why?
Because Republicans want the specter of illegal immigrants swarming the Southern Border (they have no problem with any illegal immigration coming from mainly White Canada) rather than passing meaningful legislation that solves the issue.
Harris accused Trump during the interview and before of “wanting to run on a problem rather than solving it.”
She is right.
Most Republicans balked at Immigration Reform during the last four Presidential Administrations, two of whom were headed by Republican Presidents.
They pushed back on bipartisan attempts at immigration reform legislation in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama terms.
If voters want immigration reform, they need a Democratic President, a Democratic House, and a Senate with enough of a Democratic majority to get bipartisan Immigration reform secured.
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The Hill has a different take on the 60 minutes interview:
Democrats’ nerves are at an all-time high.
Two months ago — even a month ago — they were feeling bullish about Vice President Harris’s prospects of defeating former President Trump.
But now, with less than a month to go until Election Day, they’re increasingly worried about a number of issues plaguing the Democratic nominee’s campaign.
On Tuesday, there was grumbling from some Democrats about the vice president’s interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
There’s also concern on everything from the static poll numbers in the race to the vice president’s messaging and even her standing with men — not just white men but Black and Hispanic men, too.
It’s hard to imagine the ferocity of the circular firing squad that will form among Democrats if Kamala Harris falls apart in the final stretch and loses the election. The people who forced Biden out of the race may have to go into witness protection.
Some folks whistle past the graveyard.
Some cackle past one.
John, thanks to convicted rapist and felon Donald J. Trump, Kamala can’t lose.
It’s impossible.
We know from your own party and party leader convicted felon and rapist Donald J. Trump that the VP is the actual decider of the election, right?
If Mike Pence had only done the right thing, isn’t that what you’ve been saying since 2020? Isn’t his failure to “do the right thing” the reason you folks wanted to hang him?
So, John Government Checks Kavanagh, you wouldn’t want to be labeled a hypocrite by changing the VP rule now, would you?
And who is the VP this time around?
So according to your party leader Donald J Trump the convicted rapist and felon, there’s only one vote that counts
Kamala Harris’s.
I’ve been saying this about you for years now, you don’t think things through.