Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, was heard on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday expressing his indignation over Vice President Kamala Harris' “support” for building a wall on the southern U.S. border.
Harris has faced repeated criticism from Republicans in recent weeks for failing to explain why she has reversed course on a number of policies she championed during the 2020 campaign. When ABC's Jonathan Karl pressed Polis about her reversal of her position on funding a wall on the southern border, Polis maintained that Democrats have “always been in favor of barriers, always in favor of building walls.”(Related article: Harris unable to explain change of attitude, says she has no regrets about Biden in first interview)
“This is an issue that has been very misleading when it comes to public debate. Democrats in general, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and, you know, Barack Obama have always been in favor of building a barrier or a wall at certain locations on the border as part of a comprehensive border security strategy,” Polis said.
“But wait a minute, she called the border wall a 'medieval vanity project' and a foolish use of money and said she would block funding for it. So she wasn't talking about supporting the wall,” Karl interjected.
Polis went on to push back against former President Donald Trump's border wall, calling it a “colossal waste of taxpayer money,” adding that Harris would secure the border in the most “cost-effective way,” including through the use of “barriers and walls.”
“Certainly, Donald Trump's proposed border wall would be a huge waste of taxpayer money. He talked about a wall across virtually the entire border, but he never effectively used different types of barriers in a cost-effective manner, including satellite imagery and on-the-ground intelligence, to secure and seal the border,” Polis said.
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“Kamala Harris' goal is to ensure that we have the most cost-effective way possible to stop the illegal flow of people, guns and drugs across our southern border. And of course, Donald Trump's border wall doesn't work and would be a waste of taxpayer money,” Polis continued. “And of course, a barrier or a wall is part of a comprehensive strategy that Kamala Harris will implement to secure our southern border.”
In response to Harris' recent campaign ads, the vice president Called Supporters of former President Donald Trump criticized Harris online for promoting her as a “border state prosecutor” in a video in which she touted a wall on the US-Mexico border. It is called She has criticized the wall as “un-American,” a “foolish waste of money” and a “medieval vanity project” by Trump, further adding to voters' curiosity about her campaign's recent shift in stance on the border wall.
Last week, the Harris campaign announced it would support a bipartisan election in February. Border BillHundreds of millions of dollars of unspent public funds need to be released to further the construction of the border wall. According to To Axios.
In 2020, President Joe Biden also criticized Trump's border wall construction and called for the wall's construction to be halted. According to To NPR.
“There will not be any more wall built under my administration,” Biden told NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro at the time.
But the 2023 president Worse He came under fire from Democrats and other immigration advocates, particularly former President Barack Obama, after pushing ahead with plans to build part of a wall in Texas amid a surge in illegal immigration. It is called President Trump's border wall was called “unrealistic” in 2016.
“This is just another example of something that's been proposed ill-conceived and primarily for political purposes,” President Obama told reporters at the time.
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