Vance focuses his border attacks on the 'Harris administration'

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On a three-day campaign swing through Nevada and Arizona, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeatedly pinned what he considers the border security failures of the Biden administration on Vice President Harris.

Starting in Henderson, Nev., on Tuesday and culminating in a brief tour of the border in Cochise County, Ariz., this morning, Vance repeatedly accused Harris of being at fault for record-setting numbers of border crossings earlier in the Biden administration.

“Kamala Harris owns every failure of the Biden administration over the last four years,” Vance told a crowd at Liberty High School in Henderson.

President Biden asked Harris to find ways to address the root causes of migration from Northern Triangle countries early on in her time as vice president. Republicans seized on that, calling her a "border czar" who did little to stop the recurring surges.

Vance hammered his a line of attack again at a rally in the west valley suburbs of Phoenix last night, and once more while standing alongside the border wall south of Sierra Vista, Ariz., where he met with border patrol officials and the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office.

“It's hard to believe until you see with your own eyes, just how bad the policies of the Kamala Harris administration have been when it comes to the southern border,” Vance said Thursday morning.

Vance employed that particular phrase — the “Harris administration” — repeatedly Thursday, as the Trump campaign moves to put Harris in the spotlight now that she’s the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Alongside Paul Perez, the president of the Border Patrol union, Vance vowed to