Corporate Media Scrambles to Bury Kamala Harris’ Failures, Outlets Claim She Was Never ‘Border Czar’

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Corporate Media Scrambles to Bury Kamala Harris’ Failures, Outlets Claim She Was Never ‘Border Czar’

As soon as the Democrats replaced President Joe Biden with Kamala Harris on the party’s presidential election ticket, the corporate media has been scrambling to bury the VP’s failures.

While Harris has achieved nothing of significance in her role as Biden’s vice president, her failings are glaringly obvious.

In the wake of her newfound candidacy for the presidency, Harris’s record on tackling the border crisis, a key issue for voters, is coming back to haunt her.

In response, corporate media outlets are now in full-spin mode as they try to walk back their own reporting to gaslight the American people about Harris.

Shortly after he was sworn into office, Biden declared Harris was the administration’s “border czar” tasked with tackling the escalating illegal migrant crisis.

However, the border crisis has only deepened as it continues to spiral out of control, with Harris seemingly doing nothing to address the issue.

But with Harris currently the establishment’s chosen candidate, the legacy media is working overtime to convince voters the vice president is not to blame for the national issue created by millions of illegal aliens flooding the open Southern Border.

Axios reporter Stef W. Kight wrote an article with the headline “Harris border confusion haunts her new campaign.”

However, Kight’s article contradicts her own outlet’s reporting on the matter,

Axios then tweeted the story with the caption “The Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the ‘border czar’ title — which she never actually had.”

This sentence also appears in the article.

Despite the claims, Axios used that very same title to describe Kamala in a 2021 article.

In the April 2021 piece, Axios reporter Shawna Chen wrote:

“Harris, appointed by Biden as border czar, said she would be looking at the ‘root causes’ that drive migration.”

Axios’s latest story also tries to downplay the responsibilities Biden placed on Harris in 2021.

Kight opens her article with the line:

“In early 2021, President Biden enlisted Vice President Kamala Harris to help with a slice of the migration issue.”

The characterization of her owning just a “slice” of the issue is a far cry from a March 2021 article, written by Kight.

The 2021 article ran with the headline “Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis.”

The article’s lede appeared to place a significantly higher emphasis on Harris’s role than Wednesday’s piece.

“President Biden is putting Vice President Harris in charge of addressing the migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border, senior administration officials announced on Wednesday,” Kight wrote in 2021.

However, now that Harris is running for president, Kight and Axios are trying to spin the narrative.

After the shift in narrative was exposed on X, Axios scrambled to cover up its older reporting.

On Wednesday, Axios updated the 2021 article with an editor’s note reading

“This article has been updated and clarified to note that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a ‘border czar’ back in 2021,” the note states.

Axios is not the only outlet attempting to shift the narrative, however.

Several liberal corporate media outlets, including The Associated Press (AP), CBS, Time Magazine, and others, all produced pushback pieces rejecting the claim that Harris was called the “border czar.”

Instead, they are insisting that the “border czar” label is just a Republican talking point.

In a 2021 article, the AP outlined Harris’s responsibilities, describing the role as “to lead response to border challenges.”

Other outlets challenging the “border czar” label published similar stories at the time.

It’s unclear if the synchronized timing of the media’s leap to her defense is organic, or a coordinated effort between the Harris campaign and obedient Democrat-aligned newsrooms.

While Biden never officially bestowed the title of border czar upon Harris, corporate and Democrat-aligned press used the term to refer to her role dealing with Mexico and Central American countries, a role Biden handed to her in 2021.

On March 24, 2021, just two months into the administration, Biden announced Harris’s new responsibilities in the White House’s State Dining Room.

“I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border,” Biden said.

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Harris and her team immediately tried to make clear that her role was specific to the root causes of the immigration crisis stemming from Central America and Mexico, CNN reported.

“After the announcement, Harris’ aides appeared to ‘panic,’ according to one of the officials, out of concern that her assignment was being mischaracterized and could be politically damaging if she were linked to the border, which at the time was facing a growing number of arrivals,” CNN wrote in June 2021.

“Harris and her staff have made it clear that they want to focus narrowly on diplomatic efforts in Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, where they believe they are more likely to achieve tangible results in addressing the root causes of migration, like economic despair,” officials told the outlet.

Despite Harris’ efforts to compartmentalize her role, a former official told CNN it’s difficult to separate her outlined tasks from the overall security of the border.

“You can’t divorce the border from Mexico or Central America or the interior of the US,” Obama-era senior Homeland Security official John Sandweg told the outlet.

“It is all one system.”

Harris held numerous roundtables and bilateral meetings with leaders of the countries within the “northern triangle” — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

The nations produced an outsized number of migrants traveling to the U.S.

Nevertheless, she only actually visited the border once and the crisis only deepened under her watch.

President Donald Trump slammed her inaction on the job Biden tasked her with during a Tuesday call with reporters.

“She visited the border a single time, far away from the epicenter of the invasion,” he said, according to the New York Post.

“You don’t even call it a visit.

“She went to a place that has no problem, and was there for a very short period of time.

“So essentially, she never visited the border as we know it,” Trump reportedly added.

Harris did visit the border in El Paso, Texas in June 2021.

However, border patrol agents criticized the VP for what they described as a “show” visit.

“They rented out a ton of hotels and we spent hours moving out bodies,” a border patrol agent told the New York Post’s Jennie Taer.

“The kids that remained, we had to braid their hair.”

He also reportedly claimed agents “made jokes about how the building was more secure than the whole border was.”

“She had zero interest in really seeing anything,” a former official present during Harris’ trip told the outlet.

“It was rushed.”

If Harris was not in charge of the border, as media outlets claim, then it’s unclear what, if anything, she has done as vice president in the past three and a half years.

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