Zakaria: Harris Should’ve Said Shutting the Border ‘Early and Hard’ When Asked About What She’d Do Different from Biden

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ZAKARIA: "But there were other issues that Democrats flubbed, which inflamed the opposition and depressed their base. I will talk about them here because it is the right time to do a postmortem, but to avoid appearing to have 20/20 hindsight, I should say that I have noted each of these mistakes at the time, often provoking angry responses from the left. The first big error was the Biden Administration‘s blindness to the collapse of the immigration system and the chaos at the border. An asylum system that was meant for a small number of persecuted individuals was being used by millions to gain legal entry. Instead of shutting it down, liberals branded anyone protesting as heartless and racist. They missed a massive shift in American public opinion in just a few years. In 2020, the percentage of Americans who wanted to decrease immigration was just 28%. By this year, it was 55%. When Kamala Harris went on ‘The View’ and was asked how she would have differed from Biden, instead of basically saying, ‘Nothing different,’ she should have said, ‘I would have shut down the border early and hard.’ The second error was an overzealous misuse of law to punish Trump."