First it was pretending she’s not the border czar. Then it was downplaying her running mate’s stolen valor controversy. Now, regime-approved media want you to believe that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to finish wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border.
On Tuesday, Democrats’ favorite propaganda outlet Axios published an article in which authors Alex Thompson and Hans Nichols claimed that Harris “pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border” if elected this November. The two “reporters” asserted it’s “the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions” since becoming Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee.
But there’s just one small problem with Thompson and Nichols’ claims: Harris never said she would build the border ball if elected.
What the authors cite as “evidence” for their claim is Harris’ speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention, in which she committed to signing a disastrous border bill proposed earlier this year that would have enshrined the ongoing Biden-Harris border invasion into federal law.
The authors also reference comments from bill sponsor Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who claimed the boondoggle “requires the Trump border wall” and “sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration.” The senator’s office estimated the legislation would direct $650 million toward the wall, a fraction of the $60 billion allocated for Ukraine and the $18 billion Trump requested for the wall in 2018.
Harris’ advisers reportedly disputed the charge the bill included new funding for the wall. According
