On Friday's CNN Newsnight, contributor Scott Jennings wisecracked "I'd just like to first welcome Kamala Harris, the vice president, into the Republican Party" after a look at Kamala Harris's new ad on immigration.
The ad -- titled "Tougher" on YouTube -- features an announcer bragging, “as a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs and across the border.” They claim as vice president, Harris backed the “toughest” immigration bill in decades (but not until this year), which completely ignores Biden repealing every tough order Donald Trump imposed at the border.
It ends with: “fixing the border is tough – so is Kamala Harris.” Jennings let her have it:
I’d like to be the first to welcome Kamala Harris into the Republican Party! Her new immigration ad is … something. My latest on @cnn. pic.twitter.com/iJPuTWLL7Y
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 10, 2024
JENNINGS: Well, I mean, I saw her ad today and I thought, did I – did I miss something in the, did she switch parties? Is she now running as a Republican? Because if you were a space alien and you landed on this planet and you knew nothing, and you watched that ad, you’d say, ‘Well that Republican, she looks pretty tough on the border right now.
There is no conceivable way that any person in this country is going to believe that Kamala Harris or any Democrat candidate for president, after everything they’ve said and done, is going to be tougher on the border than Donald Trump. I want to Venmo the DNC right now, so they'll keep running these ads and keep reminding people of what a disaster this is.
Republicans argued all along that Biden repealed Trump's policies by executive order, and he could restore them by executive order.
Former RNC spokesperson Madison Gesiotto was on the CNN set, and proclaimed, "it is the gaslight of the century. You know it, I know it. You can talk about any bill you want, but the reality is they come into office, Biden-Harris come into office, they reverse a lot of the policies that were keeping people from coming over the border. And that's the reality of how we got to where we are."
