Kamala Addresses Bipartisan Bill
It seems like Kamala Harris is quickly earning the title of “queen of the flip-floppers” with her latest moves, especially when it comes to the border wall. Let’s break it down.
Harris has been walking a tightrope on a number of issues lately. Take fracking, for example. There’s been plenty of chatter about her flipping her stance on that—though interestingly, not through her own words, but rather through leaks and whispers from unnamed campaign sources. It’s like her team is trying to make her more palatable to a broader audience without her having to officially flip-flop, giving her a convenient way out if she needs to backtrack. It’s a crafty bit of political maneuvering, but it’s also starting to wear thin.
“I’m not gonna vote for a [border] wall under any circumstances.”
— Kamala Harris pic.twitter.com/1fMD8g1T3V
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 27, 2024
Now, Harris recently ran an ad touting how tough she’s been on border security. Yes, you heard that right—the same Kamala Harris whose primary responsibility as Vice President was to handle the border crisis, a task many argue has been a spectacular failure. What’s more, the ad even featured shots of Trump’s border wall, as if she’s trying to take some credit for it, despite having railed against it as “un-American” and “racist” during Trump’s time in office. The irony is almost too much to bear.
And just when you thought things couldn’t get more contradictory, along comes a bombshell from Axios. They reported that Harris is now pledging to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on—you guessed it—building the border wall. That’s right, the very wall she and her fellow Democrats fought tooth and nail to stop is now something she’s apparently supporting.
KAMALA now vowing to finish the same border wall she spent 8 years bashing. Yo this woman is a complete sociopath but it’s gonna be hilarious when she starts wearing a MAGA hat.
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) August 27, 2024
Let’s rewind a bit. When Biden and Harris took office, they halted the construction of the wall, stopped other Trump-era border protections, and even paid millions to let building materials sit unused. They tried to sell the materials off at a loss—essentially burning taxpayer money in the process. Yet now, Harris is backing a bipartisan bill that requires these funds to be spent on continuing the wall’s construction. So, if she supports this bill, she supports the continuation of the wall—plain and simple.
Here we go again. Harris’s staffers are backgrounding reporters to push out major policy flip-flops.
REMINDER: In 2019, Kamala Harris called the border wall a “vanity project” because “by definition,” illegal immigration is “not an emergency.” pic.twitter.com/FvBMWCobxG https://t.co/8wmFJMT2GN
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 27, 2024
This flip-flop is so glaring that it’s hard not to wonder: does Harris really understand the implications of her actions? Or is she going to walk this back once the backlash hits full force? And here’s the kicker—why would anyone vote for her when they could vote for Trump, who was consistent on this issue from the start?
The reaction online has been brutal. People aren’t buying what Harris is selling, and they’re not shy about mocking her for this about-face. Some are even pointing out that if she’s so keen on building the wall now, she could start right away—no need to wait for an election.