CNN Commentator Calls Harris’ Border Visit ‘Tricky,’ Says Voters With Major Concerns On Issue Don’t ‘Trust’ Her

CNN commentator and host S.E. Cupp called Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to Arizona’s border a “tricky” situation on Friday, noting voters with major concerns about the issue don’t “trust” her.

Harris visited the U.S. southern border in Douglas, Arizona, on Friday aiming to unveil stricter immigration policies that build on President Joe Biden’s June executive order pausing new asylum requests after hitting a daily average of 2,500 over the span of a week. On “The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer,” Cupp said Harris is “damned” if she visits or doesn’t, calling out the “circular argument” between both parties on how to fix the border crisis.

“This is a tricky issue for her. She’s damned if she does, she’s damned if she doesn‘t. If she didn‘t go they’d say, ‘She didn‘t even go to the border, see how unseriously she takes it.’ She‘s going now, so there’s the circular argument, ‘Well why didn‘t you go earlier?’ Folks are saying this was all Biden’s policies,” Cupp said. “Then Democrats will say, but when ‘we tried to fix it, Republicans said no.’ It’s a circular argument that never ends and it will never end.”

“But I can tell you it’s not appealing to undecided voters in the swing states who are not here for the finger-pointing and the blame game, they just want solutions,” Cupp continued. “So for the voters for whom immigration is a top number one issue, she‘s not reaching them. They don‘t trust her, they don’t trust Biden.”

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Cupp added that voters who don’t see the border crisis as a top concern and instead view it as a “softer issue” could be swayed by Harris’ visit and push for stricter policies.