No. of Recommendations: 5
That's from 2021. Why isn't she able to answer questions about immigration?
Because the NBC blurb doesn't accurately describe the scope of her duties. She was tasked with looking at the root "push" causes of emigration from the Northern Triangle. Not address "IMMIGRATION" - the entire range of issues, policies, procedures, and institutions that fall within that topic. Her job didn't include overseeing the Border Patrol or looking at staffing for immigration courts (for example) - she was engaged in diplomatic discussions with Guatemala and Honduras. Different things.
Again, there's a reason why the GOP wanted to impeach Mayorkas and not Harris over immigration. Because Mayorkas was the member of the Administration tasked with immigration. Not the Veep's office. Bringing out some press coverage that referred to Harris as a border czar doesn't change that.
This is why the change in candidate is so damaging to Trump's campaign strategy. The GOP spent massive political resources creating damaging conditions for Biden on the border issue - hammering Biden personally as failing to set sound policies, and hammering Mayorkas for failing to administer the border successfully. But the downside to that is that the GOP has clearly assigned who has responsibility for those failures: Biden, for failing to set better policies and for failing to replace Mayorkas. They never tagged Harris for it. And because they've spent so much time blaming Biden and Mayorkas, they just don't have much space to argue that "no, it was actually Harris that was in charge of the border."
The campaign is desperately trying to have it both ways; a media that does its job would have ended them by now.
Again, not at all relevant to whether Harris has personal familiarity with the entire economic issues brief for her to start facing press questions about her future economic policies. No one disagrees with you that since she's part of the Administration, she has to accept the Administration's performance over the last three years as part of her record, too. But neither is she going to be a Biden clone - while her role as VP meant that her job was to support all of Biden's decisions, as the new nominee she gets to choose the economic policies she wants to have. Something she hasn't had to review or decide on for three and a half years.
