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As NewsBusters documented on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a colossal blunder when pressed by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt on why she hadn’t visited the U.S.-Mexico border despite being the point person on the crisis. Her bewildering comment about how she had not been to Europe either was completely ignored by ABC’s World News Tonight, while CBS Evening News tried to strip the extreme flippantness from it by paraphrasing the quote.
Both networks were essentially acting as the presidential press shop. “We turn next here to Vice President Kamala Harris concluding her high stakes visit to Guatemala and Mexico, taking on border issues and the root causes of some of what the U.S. is seeing on the U.S. border with Mexico,” boasted ABC anchor Davis Muir.
Adding: “The Vice President meeting today with Mexico's President Obrador, insisting the U.S. must focus on the root causes of migration. She said this is not a quick fix in talking with reporters, and she was pressed again about when she'll go to the U.S. border.”
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