The ever-worsening border crisis has become a campaign liability for at least one Senate Democrat, after a recently released TV ad from his opponent.
As the Biden administration has overseen record numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border, vulnerable Democrats are beginning to pay the price on the campaign trail.
A new television ad released on Monday, March 21st calls out Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) as a “bald-faced liar” for claiming to support border security while enabling lax border protection.
“Mark Kelly claims he’s improving border security,” the ad, paid for by Republican candidate Jim Lamon, states. “But Kelly voted against border security funding three times. On his watch, illegal border crossings exploded—including sex predators, murderers, even a suspected terrorist—and deportations dropped 70 percent.”
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According to reporting from the Washington Free Beacon:
The ad is responding to a Kelly campaign ad in which the senator says he led efforts to “improve border security.” Kelly has taken flak, however, from critics in Arizona who say he chooses loyalty to the national Democratic Party platform over his state’s interests, including border security. In November, top Arizona law enforcement officials called him “completely absent” on the border issue. “Mark Kelly scares the hell out of us,” one police representative said.
In February of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security recorded 164,973 illegal immigrants apprehended at the border, which is the highest total ever recorded in February. Of course, that’s just the number of individuals that were caught, there were likely many, many more that made it through without being captured by border agents.
Polling has shown that Americans have low confidence in the Biden administration’s commitment to protect the border. A Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group poll conducted in early March showed that 65 percent of respondents are not confident that Joe Biden will deliver on his promise to secure the border.
