Speaking during the Monday, August 12, White House Press Briefing, Fox News Channel Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre on what Vice President Kamala Harris has thought about President Joe Biden’s handling of the order, namely for how long she has though he has done a bad job of handling it.
As background, Vice President Harris has, as part of her 2024 presidential campaign, promised to increase the number of border agents at the border so that they are better able to stem the tide of immigration into the country. That indicates she is either unsatisfied with Biden’s handling of the border, or merely making the pledge as a campaign promise about which she doesn’t care, so it is about what Doocy pressed KJP during the briefing.
Doing so, Doocy asked, “How long have you guys known that Vice President Kamala Harris does not think President Biden is doing a good job at the border?” Then, when KJP asked him to repeat his question about Kamala, he said, “Well, she’s now promising to hire thousands more border agents than there are now under President Biden.”
The two then bickered for a great deal of time, with KJP arguing that Doocy was making quite a leap of logic by saying that she is unhappy with the Biden Administration’s border policies by merely promising to increase the number of agents at the border. Meanwhile, Doocy insisted that if she was happy with the policy, she wouldn’t change it.
Eventually, KJP blamed Trump for the border crisis, saying, “We both believe that. The president does want more Border Patrol agents. You know who’s getting in the way? You know who’s getting in the way? Republicans in Congress. They’re getting in the way. You know who else is getting in the way? The former president, Donald Trump. He’s getting in the way.”
She then insisted that the question isn’t understandable because “there’s no daylight,” which seemed to mean no space of disagreement between VP Harris and President Biden, though she didn’t explain what she meant. She said, “I mean, I don’t un- — there’s no daylight here. I’m not understanding the question because there’s no daylight.”
Continuing, she told Doocy, “The president believes that as well, and he’s worked towards doing that. There’s a bipartisan — I know you guys probably get — get sick of me saying this, but there was — there was a bipartisan agreement that was on the table that the president worked through for a couple of months with Republicans in the Senate and Democrats. They were told not to move forward, because it would help Joe Biden, by the former president. That’s their decision.”
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Doocy also asked, “And there’s one more thing that came out over the weekend. There’s this new Las Vegas police radio traffic that’s published by The Daily Beast where officers were racing to secure a hospital emergency room on July 17th. They were under the impression that President Biden was having a medical emergency. What was it?” She told him, “He was not. As you know, the president, when we were in Vegas, tested positive for COVID.”
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