Critics slammed a slick new ad from Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign in which she promised to crackdown on chaos at the border, with one asking, “How dumb do they think we are?”
In the 30-second spot posted to YouTube earlier this week, a narrator trumpets Harris’ record.
“Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting violent crime. As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border.
“As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades, and as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is tough. So is Kamala Harris,” the narrator promises.
But critics weren’t buying it.
“This is the new Harris ad — you have to wonder how stupid they think voters are to believe she was ‘tough on the border,’” Sean Spicer, a former White House spokesman, wrote in an X posting.
Ryan Girdusky, a GOP political consultant, was similarly taken aback and noted that Biden-Harris has released nearly 100 migrants on the terror watch list into the country.
“How dumb do they think we are. If Harris wanted to do this should have done it three and a half years ago. She could do it right now actually because she is still the border czar — I don’t believe she was ever removed from that post,” Girdusky said.
The spot notably glides over the fact that as border czar, Kamala Harris has presided over an unprecedented migrant crisis.
Though migrant encounters have fallen in recent months after President Biden’s June Executive Order temporarily suspending the entry of certain noncitizen across the southern border — they were at historic highs earlier this year.
As recently as February border agents apprehended 189,922 migrants, a new record for that month.
Even migrants who are taken into custody often end up released into the United States. The Biden-Harris administration has released nearly three quarters of migrants who crossed illegally into San Diego this year.
In New York City, migrants bused in from Texas and elsewhere have established themselves as permanent residents in Big Apple hotels and in sprawling tent cities at taxpayer expense.