GOP operative schooled live on CNN over 'inaccurate' attack on Kamala Harris
August 23, 2024
A Republican operative was on the receiving end of a detailed rebuttal on CNN Friday after he launched into a rant aimed at Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Appearing on CNN with host Jim Acosta and regular commentator, Democratic Party strategist Maria Cardona, Lance Trover, who served as a spokesperson for Republican Gov. Doug Burgum's short presidential campaign, criticized Harris of continued failures at the southern border while acting as President Joe Biden's "Border Czar" — a title she has never held but which has nonetheless become a far-right talking point
After Trover called the VP the border czar, Acosta interceded and allowed Cardona to confront him
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"Well, first of all, she was never the border czar. That is something that has been inaccurate," Cardona began.
"Secondly, if you go back and actually look at the facts, what the Biden administration had to do when they came in was to rebuild the immigration system from the ground up because Donald Trump completely eviscerated every single pathway to come here legally and he did nothing to diminish illegal entrance into the country."
"And in fact today, and there's something I think Lance also glosses over, today the numbers of people coming across the border are lower than they were under Donald Trump and that is because of the policies that Biden-Harris have put in place," she added.
"They are focused, and now she is focused, since she talked about this last night, on real solutions, a common sense balanced approach that talks about strong border security and traditionally it has been Democrats that have invested a lot more into border security as well as expanded legal pathways — that's what Americans want."
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