Kudos to GOP VP nominee JD Vance for his recent schooling of arrogant journalists on the realities of the Harris-Biden border disaster.
First up, his sit-down with the New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who exuded smugness throughout the conversation until she attempted a “gotcha” moment. Vance had correctly cited the U.S. housing shortage as a driver of rising home prices, to which Garcia-Navarro smirked and suggested that cracking down on illegal immigration would cripple the construction industry and worsen the shortage.
Vance quickly countered, pointing out the obvious fact that the U.S. built plenty of homes in the 1950s and ’60s without a flood of illegal immigration. He added that the jobs created by a housing boom should go to the 7 million prime-age American men who have stopped looking for work.
Garcia-Navarro then attempted to argue that unemployment is already low, but Vance shut her down again by explaining that millions of labor-force dropouts are not counted in the unemployment rate. Garcia-Navarro appeared unaware of this basic fact and retreated into silence.
Far worse than her ignorance were the remarks of ABC’s Martha Raddatz, who downplayed the criminal activities of Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang in Aurora, Colorado, insisting their presence was “limited to a handful of apartment complexes.” As if that made violent gangs crossing the open southern border acceptable. One can only imagine Raddatz’s reaction if those complexes were in her own affluent neighborhood.
Vance brought the hammer down: “Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem—not Kamala Harris’ open border?” Raddatz had nothing of substance to say in response, because there is no valid counterargument.
This is bad news for Harris, as her media allies are running head-first into reality—but great news for America.
