Former President Bill Clinton acknowledged Sunday at a Harris Waltz event that the murder of the American girl likely would not have happened if the current administration had properly vetted the migrants pouring across the border.

Talk about how bad Vice President Kamala Harris is. Mr. Clinton, campaigning on her behalf in Fort Valley, Georgia, accidentally drew attention to one of the biggest flaws in her candidacy: her negligence and incompetence as Joe Biden’s border czar. I have collected them. Harris Waltz Wearing a camouflage hat, the former Democratic president gave the Trump campaign what may be its most effective ad of the entire campaign. (Click here to sign up for Mr. Wright’s weekly newsletter)

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Bill Clinton continues to suggest that illegal immigrants seeking cheap labor are needed, saying Laken Riley’s death “probably wouldn’t have happened” if Kamala had worked at the border. are.

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“There was something that happened a while ago in Georgia. They made an ad about a young woman who was killed by an immigrant,” Clinton said, referring to the murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley. is. “Well, if everything had been properly inspected, that probably wouldn’t have happened.”

Clinton went on to argue that immigrants should be properly vetted so they can take jobs that Americans don’t do and keep birth rates high. Perhaps he knew he had failed and immediately tried to pivot to how immigration was a net benefit to the country. Or perhaps, contrary to his party, Mr. Clinton believes that open borders policy is a disaster for American society and that his gaffe represents his actual feelings on the issue. Either way, the damage was done.

Biden himself threw Harris under the bus in early October when he called Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, to praise the state’s hurricane preparedness and recovery efforts. All the while, Harris was trying to pick a petty fight with the governor for refusing to talk to her on the phone.