Vice President and Border Czar Kamala Harris finally got around to visiting the U.S.-Mexico border, on Friday, with a little over a month before Election Day. On the topic of her long-overdue visit, ABC News –which is 100 percent in the tank for Harris – hyped her agenda for the day during Good Morning America. Co-host George Stephanopoulos and chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce teamed up to mislead viewers about when her last visit was. But CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today provided better context.
In the opening teases for the show, Stephanopoulos suggested the Vice President was “set to make her first visit to our southern border since becoming the nominee, as she looks to gain ground on former President Trump on a top issue.”
The use of the phrase “since becoming the nominee” was ambiguous to the point that it could leave some viewers with the misunderstanding that visiting the border was something that she did in recent months, but just had not yet been there since at least August. In reality, she had not been there in over three years as vice president.
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