Six House Democrats joined GOP lawmakers on Thursday to support a resolution condemning Vice President Harris for her handling of the border, underscoring the sensitivity of the issue for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and her party.
The passage of the four-page resolution, led by Rep. Elise Stefanik (RN.Y.), underscores how former President Trump and the Republican Party want to link Harris to the border, which has been a weak issue in polls for President Biden. .
The six Democrats who voted for the legislation are all in highly competitive races this fall.
Reps. Yadira Caraveo (D-Colo.), Donald Davis (D.N.C.), Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) are up for grabs in the Cook Political Report’s nonpartisan race analysis, while Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) are in races that lean Democratic.
Just Caravéu publicly endorsed Harris for the White House.
Cuellar said he waits anxiously by “supporting the next Democratic presidential nominee” but did not explicitly mention Harris in his statement following Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race. Davis also did not mention Harris in your statement about Biden’s departure.
Gluesenkamp Perez did not mention Harris in your statement following Biden’s announcement, who quickly endorsed Harris. Gluesenkamp Perez said the next president “must be clearly fit to do the job, and that fitness must be publicly prosecuted.”
Peltola said earlier this week that she will not be endorsing no one in the presidential race, but that she would not vote for former President Trump, the Republican Party candidate.
Golden, who predicted Trump would win the election before Biden dropped out of the race, told Axios on Thursday that he is “absolutely not” pledging to vote for Harris.
The GOP measure targets Harris for her handling of the border, saying “Harris spent 93 days as border czar before finally visiting the southern border on June 25, 2021.” It passed the lower house in a vote of 220-196 Thursday morning.
“The open border policies of President Biden’s far-left Democrats and border czar Harris are to blame for this historic crisis,” the legislation argues.
In fact, Harris does not hold the official title of “border czar,” but Biden tasked her with leading his administration’s efforts to combat the root causes of Central American migration at the southern border in March 2021.
Stefanik said on the House floor Thursday that Harris “failed to oversee American security by refusing to secure the border,” adding that she “proved she is not prepared to lead.”
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