Kamala Neutralizes Border Issue

In one stump speech and a new ad Kamala Harris is on her way to neutralizing Trump’s best issue — Immigration.

Last night at a rally in Atlanta she pivoted to offense, accusing Trump of opposing secure borders to help his campaign.

“When I am president I will actually work to solve the problem”

Simultaneously her campaign released this ad to make the point…

Ad Transcript
On the Border the choice is simple
Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of border patrol agents
Donald Trump blocked a bill to increase the number of border patrol agents
Kamala Harris supports investing in new technology to block fentanyl from entering the country
Donald Trump blocked funding for technology to block fentanyl from entering the country
Kamala Harris supports spending more money to stop
human traffickers
Donald Trump blocked money to stop human traffickers
Harris prosecuted transnational gang members and got them sentenced to prison
Trump is trying to avoid being sentenced to prison
There’s two choices in this election:
The one who will fix our broken immigration system
And the one who’s trying to stop her

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70 thoughts on “Kamala Neutralizes Border Issue”

  1. Craig, thanks for adding the transcript.

    BTW, did you notice the much younger sounding voice of the narrator?  can’t place who it is, but he sounds familiar.

  2. Attribution: MIGRANT FAIRY TALE by Randall Enos, Easton, CT

    on same subject, click here for:
    John Oliver discusses the wave of people claiming there’s a wave of “migrant crime,” where the term came from, and what we can do next.

  3. Ronny Chieng zooms in on the white guys who are fired up for Kamala Harris and finds out why the Democrats are calling Donald Trump & JD Vance “weird.” Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt gets the scoop on those childless cat ladies Vance has been trash-talking.

  4. Atlanta rally: Harris tells Trump to ‘say it to my face’ and challenges him to debate | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

    Three weeks ago, the political commentariat was writing off Georgia and talking of narrow pathways for Joe Biden to hold the White House. Georgia was a desert. Tuesday evening, an Atlanta crowd greeted Kamala Harris like she backed up a truck full of sweet tea to that desert.
    It’s probably too early – nine days since the president’s withdrawal and the vice-president’s ascension – to know if sentiment in Georgia had shifted enough to justify jubilation. But the crowd in Atlanta treated the new presumptive presidential nominee as a reason to celebrate after months of her quieter campaigning in the city as the vice-presidential nominee.
    “As many of you know, before I was elected vice-president … I was an elected attorney general and an elected district attorney,” Harris said after taking the stand. “Hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type, and I have been dealing with people like him my entire career.”
    This elicited chants of: “Lock him up!”
    Harris addressed a crowd of 10,000 who filled the Georgia State Convocation Center, with people waiting outside for a seat. She touted her prosecution record and referenced Trump’s criminal convictions and the findings of fraud in his businesses.
    “As an attorney general, I held big Wall Street banks accountable for fraud. Donald Trump was found guilty of fraud,” Harris said. “In this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his any day, including on the issue of immigration.”
    Harris spoke of walking underground tunnels at the California border and prosecuting traffickers, and pledged to bring back the border security bill that was tanked in Congress by Republicans to preserve the issue in the campaign.
    Referencing a Migos song – popular as an Atlanta group – she said: “He does not walk it as he talks it.”
    […]
    “There are signs Donald Trump is feeling” the competition, she says.
    “You may have noticed he pulled out of the debate.”
    She repeated the assertion made by her campaign in recent days that Trump is “just plain weird”.
    “I do hope Trump will agree to meet me on the debate stage, because as the saying goes – if you got something to say, say it to my face,” she said as the crowd exploded.
    The convocation center at Georgia State University is a state-owned building. Election law requires the facility to offer its use on the same terms to the Trump campaign. Hence, Trump will appear here Saturday, offering a mark to compare their relative fortunes even as he refuses to accept debate.

  5. X suspends ‘White Dudes for Harris’ account after massive fundraiser – The Washington Post

    SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s social media platform X suspended “White Dudes for Harris” Monday night, shortly after a massive fundraising call where almost 200,000 people helped raise more than $4 million for the vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee.
    The account, @dudes4harris, was reinstated Tuesday morning after it was blocked hours due to “a user report” for “violating our rules against evading suspension,” according to a screenshot shared with The Washington Post. Organizer Ross Morales Rocketto said the group submitted a complaint to X, but had no other direct communication from the platform.
    “We hosted the event, and it was wholesome and a bunch of dudes being earnest, getting inspired and excited,” Morales Rocketto said in an interview with The Post. “And suddenly we realized the [X] account had been suspended and we had no idea why.”
    “White Dudes for Harris” has no affiliation with the Harris campaign, but was created to energize voters — in this case, White men — for Vice President Harris. It is part of a string of identity-focused groups, such as Black Women for Harris and White Women for Harris, that have been holding calls and fundraisers in earnest since President Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
    The more than three-hour-long online call Monday evening featured actors Mark Hamill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sean Astin and Josh Gad, among others who expressed their support and enthusiasm for Harris on the presidential ticket.
    The suspension on X, which occurred as the group and its allies were posting heavily about the event after it ended, reflects broader concerns among Democrats that the platform, which Musk bought in 2022, could be used to influence the online discourse in the months leading up to the presidential election.
    Musk endorsed former president Donald Trump on the platform this month and has been using it to stump for the GOP candidate. The billionaire has 192 million followers on the platform, giving him a far larger social media megaphone than most any other individual — even President Biden, Harris or Trump.
    Musk and X did not respond to a request for comment about the suspension of the “White Dudes for Harris” account and its reinstatement.

    Morales Rocketto said he and his team did not receive any communication from X or Musk about the suspension, but he felt the move was “suspicious.” A duplicate account, @dudesforharris, was created during the event, but it is unclear what role — if any — that may have played in the suspension.
    “I think it’s a little convenient that my [X] mentions have been full of white supremacists, saying nasty things about me and the organization,” he said. “And our account got suspended, but somehow those accounts continue to tweet at us.”
    This isn’t the first time an account affiliated with the Harris campaign has run into trouble with its X account.
    [continues]

  6. Yes Pat I did notice the youthful and slightly sassy sounding narrator. I think it reminds us of someone because it’s sort of a blend of young actor voices, could be an AI creation. So far I am finding the production values of her ads far more sophisticated than Trump’s old-school hatchet jobs.

  7. To borrow a line from William Hurt’s character in The Big Chill, he’s so obtuse. WaPo. 

    Trump suggests Harris would struggle with world leaders based on her appearance
     

    “I don’t want to say as to why,” Trump said. A campaign spokeswoman denied he was talking about her race or gender.
     

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested that Vice President Harris wouldn’t be able to stand up to world leaders because of her appearance, adding that he didn’t want to spell it out but viewers would know what he meant.

    “She’ll be like a play toy,” Trump — who has a history of using sexist attacks and stereotypes in campaigns against women — said in a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham, a portion of which aired on Tuesday night. “They look at her and they say, ‘We can’t believe we got so lucky.’ They’re going to walk all over her.”

    Trump then turned to look directly at the camera and added: “And I don’t want to say as to why. But a lot of people understand it.”
     

    Says the guy who won’t commit to debate her. Pussy.

  9. There’s racism in JD Vance’s obsession with child birth. We need MORE WHITE KIDS is what he’s saying. All part of Make America White Again, and a sidebar to the racist white replacement theory. This is an election about white supremacists making a last stand against our emerging non-white majority, and they’re not going without a fight.

  10. As Republicans Attack Harris on Immigration, Here’s What Her Record Shows

    New York Times: “Republicans blame Vice President Kamala Harris for the surge of migrants into the United States over the past several years. But a review of her involvement shows a more nuanced record”:
    — Biden did not assign her the job title of “border czar” or the responsibility of overseeing the enforcement policies at the U.S.-Mexico border
    — She did have a prominent role in trying to ensure that a record surge of global migration did not become worse
    — Her attempt to convince companies across the world to invest in Central America and create jobs for would-be migrants had some success, raising more than $5 billion in private and public funds.
    — She also pushed Central American governments to work with the United States to create a program where refugees could apply for protection within their own region.
    — After Harris’s efforts took hold border crossings from Central America dropped 36 percent
    — She took direct approach to supporting democracy in Central America, pushing Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei to reluctantly accept handover of power to the newly elected president, Bernardo Arevalo.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/us/politics/kamala-harris-immigration.html

  11. A “little play toy” is a misogynists view of women.   Orange Adolf wants to be king.  He is already king of the misogynists. Pathetic. 
    Vote blue, no matter who, up and down the ballot,   Let’s give President Harris as much help in Congress as possible.

    ps – As Fred III noted yesterday on The View, even when he loses, he won’t go away.  I wonder if all of his children are as damaged as is he, and will he/she/they also threaten democracy? 

    pps – They have more planned for us, but aren’t going to let us know what, per a clip of Project 2025 guy. I’ll try to find it. Anyway, I hope the three-initial departments have their many ears to the ground.

  14. Craig,

     We need MORE WHITE KIDS is what he’s saying. All part of Make America White Again

    The whole anti-abortion wasn’t really an issue until the advent of birth control access for unmarried women, IVF and the growth of Planned Parenthood.  When white, baby boys for adoption became scarce, it became important to grow the supply to meet the demand.  

  15. This has gotten little attention but Project 2025’s most significant work might be what it calls the Presidential Administration Academy, which aggregates résumés from less-well-known people to fill the lower levels of a Trump administration with loyalists, all of them briefed on Project 2025’s desired outcomes. Who gets that database? As the saying goes, Personnel Is Policy, 

    PAA’s web page.. https://www.project2025.org/training/presidential-administration-academy/

    This VOA piece one of the few mentions I’ve seen in media about the PAA (could its loyalists infiltrate Medicare and Social Security bureaucracy?): “The Presidential Administration Academy is recruiting and training loyalists. The plan calls for restoring Schedule F, which briefly existed at the end of the Trump administration, a classification that made positions in the civil service more easily filled by loyalists to the president. Tens of thousands of appointees could then fan out across government agencies to implement far-right priorities, such as detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants, dismantling social safety nets, infusing Christian values and ethics into government policy, eliminating LGBTQ+ rights, directing the Justice Department to prosecute anti-white racism and banning pornography” — https://www.voanews.com/a/playbook-for-controlling-government-bureaucracy-prepared-for-trump/7693158.html

  17. The magats already know that they are stupid, they’ve just spent most of the last decade trying to convince everyone else that they’re PROUD of it.   But they’re not, not really; they just gotta keep acting like it or they get kicked out of the club.

  18. CNN entertainment reporter: Maya Rudolph will return to SNL to play Kamala Harris, a source tells me. She will play Harris through, at least, the 2024 election.

  19. I bet that when Hugh O’Brien, Steve McQueen, Gene Barry, Richard Boone, Clint Eatswood, Etc were working in all those tv westerns and yearning to be “in the movies” it would never have dawned on them that after all the movies and many years later whole generations of peoples would only be aware of them from watching those old black and white westerns on MeTV and the like.  Life’s a funny ole dog…..

  22. NBC on-site reporter yesterday said the crowd was indeed 10,000 in Atlanta, but another 10,000 were outside cheering.  
    Pete is now “under consideration”, without receiving vetting papers. I don’t mind the wait; we want the best possible voter-attraction candidate in the Veep pick.  Kelly was freshly shaven with sparkling new suit , new shirt and tie with a perfect knot on Morning Joe today, looking perfectly presidential. He’s hungry for it.  Another 24 hour cycle, I am preaching for a Shapiro VP pick. 
    In early November 2022, the voters in Ohio lost their collective mind and voted for Vance and sent Tim Ryan to the sidelines.  Ryan was dedicated to working with a bi-partisan agenda to get things done here in Ohio, but we got this crazed racist anti-women lunatic  who praised Trump and supported Jim Jordan all the way.  We do have great politicians here, like Senator Sherrod Brown and my Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. You can’t always get what you want.  
    Now we are learning the Latino belt around Reading, Pennsylvania , may decide the election as Latinos faded away from Biden and latched onto Trump’s filthy agenda. The ones I saw interviewed and the charts I saw indicate these Latinos could flip the state to Trump. What!?  Geez. They don’t seem to love Harris much at all.  

  25. She should pick someone who would make a great candidate for Pres in 2032.   

  26. …and just a few days ago the death anniversary, 12 years gone, our friend “Yo Soy Horsedoody!” Lee Carmichael of Fort Worth left  this world. He showed us his Texas Church Photographs project.  He was a star here.  

  27. J.D. Vance did NOTHING for us here in Ohio. Not a damn thing.  What’s he going to for the nation? Anyone? *crickets* chirp chirp.

  28. If there weren’t so many bigots in the world, I’d pick Pete over Kelly.  Pete will only be 50 in 2032.  We’d have a First and Second Gentleman. If he’s not the VP pick, he should be Sec. of Defense. 

  31. JD Vance’s kids are his proof to the world that he isn’t gay
     
    …not working

    “Hey guys, let’s go after the gay people of which i’m obviously not one because i have had sex with a woman twice! See???”

  32. Trump: “I did not know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. Is she Indian or is she Black?”

  33. i cracked your code JD nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah
     
    That why he’s so awkward, doing his best impersonation of a straight guy
     
    no mercy

  34. I heard a little of the Q&A from the NABJ event with Dumbass.  It would have been embarrassingly stupid if I was part of his team.  Stupid prick was rinsing and repeating as if the NABJ members are nothing more than another rally audience.

  35. imagine Mayor Pete saying at the VP debate. “i’m not the only gay parent on the stage, the community is here for you JD”
     
    i feel the same way about Musk:
    -hair plugs
    -plastic surgery 
    -obsessed with childbirth
    -uses IVF
    -fathered at least one lgbt child (allegedly)
     

    birds of a feather flock together

    Beyond that, you’re absolutely right that the obsession with having children is born (pardon the pun) out of white supremacist “replacement” logic, glad everyone is reading between the lines 👍

    That is all, keep crushing it y’all (good thread 👍 ) ✌️ 🇺🇸

  37. Don-Old is trying to get Black voters to stay home because Harris isn’t black enough.   Indian mother and Jamaican father, but there was a slave trade in Jamaica, too.    She is bi-racial, as are many POC. 

    Just look at how MAGAts are talking about her; it’s certainly not the same as if she were a yt woman.  If Harris wasn’t a POC, all of the nastiness would just be misogynistic, not misogynistic and racist.

    It won’t work, Adolf.  Go hide in your bunker you miserable putz.

  38. A jaw-dropping exchange: 

    Q: “My question is on those rioters who assaulted officers—would you pardon them?” 

    Trump: “Oh, absolutely I would. If they’re innocent, I would pardon them.”

    Q: “They’ve been convicted.”

    Trump: “Well, they were convicted by a very tough system.”

  39. New York Times: Former President Donald J. Trump questioned the racial identity of Vice President Kamala Harris during a tense appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago on Wednesday, asking, “Is she Indian or is she Black?” He falsely claimed that Ms. Harris, who has long identified as Black and attended a historically Black university, used to identify as Indian and then, “all of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a Black person.”

    The White House press secretary, Karine Jean Pierre, called Mr. Trump’s comments “repulsive” and “insulting.” She added, “No one has any right to tell someone who they are.”

  41. Wire leads. Reuters: Trump questions whether Harris is ‘Black’ at conference of Black journalists https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sitdown-black-journalists-convention-sparks-backlash-2024-07-31/

    AP: ‘Is she Indian or is she Black?’ Trump said of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the US presidential race, drawing a smattering of jeers from an audience of about 1,000 people. ‘She was Indian all the way, and all of a sudden she made a turn and became a Black person’

  44. Sturg, on which side of the spray tan – in or out?
    Did Dumbass ask if Obama was black enough? 

  46. Hey these republican dirty tricks are fun and all, but…
     
    When is this rally with OUR VP PICK??? 🤩

  47. Asking if she is black or Indian will raise the hackles of anyone of Indian descent who remember that Little Black Sambo was actually an Indian boy when written during the British Raj when they were referred to as “blacks”.  There is a whole history involved with who was light enough to ride where on railway lines if you have time to research Ghandi’s law career.

  48. The pigmentation issue is everywhere. Friends adopted a child from South Korea and her birth records actually listed a skin tone; medium. It’s sad.  
     
    Time for everyone to be good with themselves and everyone else, and move on to policies that impact everyone.  

    Well, there is a caste system in the US.  Race plays into it, of coarse, but it’s how wealthy you are that matters.  Private jets boarded through special terminals, concierge floors at hotels, houses all over the globe.  It’s obscene when folks are hungry, unhoused, sick and afraid to use their insurance if they have any.

    Project 2025 will exacerbate the wealth gap, the health gap, the housing gap.

    Don’t let Orange Adolf’s nasty DEI talk take all of the MSM’s focus away from what’s at stake.

  49. The more I read about Dumbass’ appearance at the NABJ event, the more I think he’s lost his mind.  WaPo

    CHICAGO — Donald Trumpon Wednesday berated a Black reporter who pressed him about past offensive comments and accused his opponent, Vice President Harris, of downplaying Black heritage she routinely highlights as a sit-down meant to showcase Trump’s outreach to voters of color immediately turned hostile.

    ABC News’ Rachel Scott began the Q&A session at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago by noting — among other comments — Trump’s insults toward Black prosecutors, his repeated false claims that America’s first Black president was born in Africa and his comments that four congresswomen who are racial minorities should “go back” to the places they came from.
     
    “Why should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that?” Scott said.
     
    “Well first of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner,” Trump said, calling the interview “disgraceful” and criticizing a “rude introduction.” He alleged he was invited under a “false pretense” because he had expected his opponent to be there as well and criticized the organizers for starting late.

    “I love the Black population of this country, I’ve done so much for the Black population of this country,” he said.

    Asked if it was acceptable for some of his supporters to derisively call Harris — a Black, Indian American woman — a “DEI hire,” Trump pressed the moderators to define the term, which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion. The talk grew even more combative.

    Trump claimed Harris used to only promote her Indian heritage — even though, as a moderator pointed out, she was part of a historically Black sorority and embraced her Black identity in many ways.
     
    “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Later he said “she was Indian all the way” but then “became a Black person.”

    “I think somebody should look into that too,” he said, speaking over his questioner. He continued his frequent mispronunciations of Harris’s first name, which many have called disrespectful.

    ***

    “False. False. False!” one attendee yelled out, as Trump falsely asserted that undocumented immigrants arriving to the U.S. are “taking votes away from all of the people in this room.”
     
    “You just lie!” one audience member said.

    ***
    Trump’s campaign had said that in Chicago he would discuss “the most pressing issues facing the Black community” in a conversation moderated by Harris Faulkner from Fox News, Kadia Goba from Semafor and Scott from ABC News.

    The former president has angered Black Americans in recent years with some racist and inflammatory comments and his promotion of false attacks. “What the hell do you have to lose?” he said when he ran in 2016, portraying Black communities as riddled with crime and poverty. Trump has also promoted a false conspiracy theory questioning the citizenship of Harris. Trump raised his political profile falsely claiming Obama was born in Africa; lamented immigration from “shithole counties”; and in 2019 told four congresswomen who are racial minorities to “go back” to the places they came from. Three of the lawmakers were born in the United States.

    JHC.  I guess he just forgot all that.

  50. Is this a “No” or a “Maybe”?

    Because it’s not “Yes”..

    Asked by FOX host Harris Faulkner if JD Vance is ready to be president on day one, Trump answers: “Historically, the vice president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact. I mean, virtually no impact…Virtually never has it mattered.”

  51. Pete
     
    PeteButtigieg
    : If your party has been systematically against unions, against a higher minimum wage, against paid family leave, against overtime, then just because you found Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock and put them on a stage doesn’t make you a friend of the working man. The substance actually matters

  52. David Plouffe:

    “33 million plus Americans are bi-racial. Highest percentage by far are younger voters. And just about all younger voters of course go to school, work with and have friends who are bi-racial. 

    Trump comes across as old, dated, mean and weird with his initial comments and now seems intent on tripling down. Of all the fights he could wage, this close to an election, he chooses this. Pure political malpractice”

  56. so many goopers have been working for months to either capture or undermine black voters and king dippy threw all that work away in less than a half an hour 👍

    dirty legal tricks and voter intimidation/obstruction will be their last refuge before violence, and the bad news is they’ve had a lot of success with dirty legal tricks

    …saw dippy being interviewed by laura ingrahamamam and his ear had no band-aid and no mark

    Ronny Jackson said he had a 2cm wound which is more than 3/4” which is about the width of your thumb

  58. Well, she took the high road. I say when they go low, go lower…

    Vice President Harris:

    This afternoon, Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists and it was the same old show. The divisiveness and the disrespect. The American people deserve better. The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth. A leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength

  61. trying to prove that a black person is white is peak absurdism

    i’d venture it’s the Congressional republicans that are worried about losing their seats, now

  62. Be more passive and more aggressive, as the good book said, right Craig?  Probably my favorite chapter. 

  63. As my mom would say, “Oh for the love of god.”  I on the other hand say these are people who on the stoopidmutherfugger scale of 0 to 10 rank 11. 

  64. Yesterday in Muhlenberg county Kentucky, I’m standing  by the Green river looking upriver at Rochester dam. The last of Sherry’s ashes are off the mantle. Job done. 

  67. Oh Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenburg County

    Down by the Green River where Paradise lay…

    Great song.  Great sentiment for Sherry.

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