Scott Jennings Blasts Harris for ‘Tactical Mistake’ on CNN: ‘Arsonist Returns to Scene of Crime’

CNN’s Scott Jennings blasted Vice President Kamala Harris for visiting the U.S. border with Mexico on Friday, equating the move to a desperate political operation and one in which an “arsonist” returned to the scene of a “crime.”

Harris visited a section of fencing along the border in Douglas, Arizona, following years of accusations she and President Joe Biden had willingly opened the border to millions of migrants. With Harris now at the top of the Democratic Party’s ticket, she is vowing to crack down on illegal crossings.

On CNN’s AC360 Friday evening, Jennings panned the border visit as a “tactical mistake” as it would remind American voters that millions of migrants had entered the U.S. under her watch.

Host Anderson Cooper asked CNN’s Van Jones if he expected any political fallout from Harris’s border visit.

“I think Republicans should be very happy tonight, I bet Scott Jennings is going to give her a lot of crash night because he wanted something done on the border. She got something done on the border. She wanted him to separate from Biden. She separated from Biden. So I expect Republicans to give her a lot of love today. Jennings replied:

I love brother Van, as he knows, I mean that, I love him like a brother, but no. There’ll be there’ll be no love from me or Republicans for Kamala Harris today. In fact, I think the Trump campaign line today ought to be “arsonist returns to the scene of crime.” I mean, look at the last three-and-a-half years, we’ve got– the border is effectively been opened. People flowing across. ICE today released information that there are 13,000 noncitizens convicted of homicide and almost 16,000 noncitizens convicted of some kind of sexual crime who are in the country right now.

Only because we’re in the shadow of an election is Kamala Harris trying to rush and pay some lip service to this issue as a tactical matter, Anderson. I don’t think Harris should be trying to elevate this issue because this is the best ground from which Donald Trump has to fight. So no, I think the Harris campaign is making a tactical mistake and I think they have very little to say that the American people are going to buy on this today.

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