During her failed 2020 campaign, Kamala Harris repeatedly said that then-president Donald Trump's plan to build a southern border wall was a "vanity project,...
All political science research suggests moves like this are never a good idea. From the perspective of the campaign, they think they’re “taking the issue away” but there’s copious research about this specifically with immigration. What you’re actually doing is telling voters the other side had better judgement on this issue and you’ve come around to their wiser view. This both signals to low information voters the other side has a better grasp of the issue than you and dispirits your own side. If you dig into the numbers, this move has never worked for anyone ever. This is typical of the DNC political expert class who are objectively bad at their jobs on a Poli Sci 101 level.
It spawns propaganda videos exactly like the one OP posted, stretching the link of “funding the border wall” to one minor aspect of extending the expiry of money Congress under Trump appropriated.
For better or for worse, to some extent Harris has a degree of separation from Biden, she’s just playing the hand that Biden was dealt, and it’s Democrats’ prerogative to push back against that low-information narrative suggested.
All political science research suggests moves like this are never a good idea. From the perspective of the campaign, they think they’re “taking the issue away” but there’s copious research about this specifically with immigration. What you’re actually doing is telling voters the other side had better judgement on this issue and you’ve come around to their wiser view. This both signals to low information voters the other side has a better grasp of the issue than you and dispirits your own side. If you dig into the numbers, this move has never worked for anyone ever. This is typical of the DNC political expert class who are objectively bad at their jobs on a Poli Sci 101 level.
It spawns propaganda videos exactly like the one OP posted, stretching the link of “funding the border wall” to one minor aspect of extending the expiry of money Congress under Trump appropriated.
For better or for worse, to some extent Harris has a degree of separation from Biden, she’s just playing the hand that Biden was dealt, and it’s Democrats’ prerogative to push back against that low-information narrative suggested.