From its first moments, the interview was contentious.
On Wednesday, United States Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with the conservative-leaning network Fox News, as her campaign attempts to attract voters disenchanted with her Republican rival, Donald Trump.
But host Bret Baier wasted no time zeroing in on the focus of their discussion: immigration.
He confronted her with a Trump campaign advertisement and a video of a bereaved mother, testifying to Congress about the death of her child, allegedly at the hands of two undocumented immigrants.
Harris, however, pointed out that irregular immigration across the US-Mexico border was a concern long before she was elected vice president in 2021 — including under Trump, a former president.
“I think, frankly, that ad from the Trump campaign is a little bit of throwing stones when you’re living in a glass house,” Harris said in response to the Trump ad. “You’ve got to take responsibility for what happened in your administration.”
A poll last week from the Pew Research Center found that voters in the US ranked the economy as their top issue as they head to the polls on November 5.
But rounding out the top five voter issues was immigration, with 41 percent of those surveyed calling it “extremely important” and another 31 percent ranking it “very important”.
Immigration has been a prominent pillar in the platforms of both the Democratic and Republican parties, with both sides pledging to lower irregular border crossings.
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