Harris Has Not Flipped on Trump Border Wall

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. The Trump campaign wants voters to know that Vice President Kamala Harris claims to have flipped and now supports the Trump border wall — but they don’t want you to believe she’ll actually follow through. That’s misleading. Neither Harris nor her campaign has indicated that she has changed her position. The thin piece of evidence on which this political bank shot rests is that Harris said during the Democratic National Convention that she would sign the bipartisan border security bill that failed in the Senate earlier this year. Trump opposed the legislation. That bill would, among many other things, allow about $650 million appropriated during the Trump administration for border wall construction to be used for that purpose. The origin of this claim is an Aug. 27 article in Axios headlined, “Harris flip-flops on building the border wall.” “If she’s elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called ‘un-American’ during the Trump administration,” the article begins. “It’s the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting...