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Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein — Fri. Sep. 27, 2024

By Jeff Stein Sep 29, 2024 | 12:03 PM

Border Czar
Here we are, barely five weeks before the presidential election, and the current vice president and Democrat party nominee, Kamala Harris, will today go to the border in Arizona.
I know that in this era of Zoom and Teams meetings, we do everything remotely…but for the person assigned to address why so many are illegally entering our country, you sort of do need to see things in real life. Sure, she went to a border office in Texas at one point…far from the actual action of the border. But now, with the aftermath of the failed Biden-Harris policies becoming so apparent, she’s going to go there and say we need to enforce our laws.
Notice she went to a swing state, Arizona…not Texas.
Will this newfound attention to a problem that has been evident to the rest of the world–literally–for years actually help her get votes? It’s such a tight election, anything is possible.  Will it be another opportunity for her to say incomprehensible things that lead audience members wondering what she was talking about? That’s far more likely.
Point of fact is that her visit will draw little attention, except in that important swing state. That’s because most of the national attention today will be on the aftermath of a natural disaster, Hurricane Helene…as opposed to the manmade disaster of the Biden-Harris border policy.