WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border during a campaign stop in the critical battleground state of Arizona on Friday as immigration remains one of her biggest liabilities in the 2024 election.
Harris will visit Douglas, Arizona, according to an update to the vice president’s schedule. Douglas, about 120 miles southeast of Tucson, is home to Arizona’s second largest port of entry along the southern border.
A Harris campaign aide, who discussed the trip on the condition of anonymity, said Harris will speak about border security during the visit. The aide said Harris will emphasize she is “pushing the toughest bipartisan border security plan in a generation” – and that former President President Donald Trump “killed it for political reasons.”
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University national poll this month found likely voters, by a 50%-47% margin, believe Trump , the Republican nominee, would do a better job handling immigration than Harris, the Democratic nominee. A Quinnipiac University poll this week found Trump with a wider 53%-45% edge on immigration.