Vice President Kamala Harris heads to the U.S. Mexico border to present her border security plan.

On that and other issues shaping the presidential race, we turn tonight to the analysis

of Kapart and Plutka. That's Jonathan Kapart,

associate editor for the Washington Post, and Danielle

Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute. David Brooks is away

this evening with a welcome to you both. So Kamala Harris is visiting the border trying to flip the script on what has been a political

vulnerability for her.

Jonathan, the Harris campaign has tried to gain ground on this issue by pointing to the bipartisan border

deal that congressional Republicans blocked earlier this year after Donald Trump came out

against it.

She's at the border today. What else does she need to do in your view

to confront this issue head on and try to cut into Donald Trump's perceived

advantage? Well she's she's doing it. She's going to the border. She's there. She'll be speaking

about it later this evening. And you know by going to the border and talking about immigration, it does give her yet another chance.

And she's been talking about this on the campaign trail.

Gives her another chance to talk about the bipartisan comprehensive immigration deal that was negotiated by Democrats and Republicans,

the lead Republican, Senator Langford of Oklahoma, one of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate, had all the votes, and then

Donald Trump called up and said, don't vote for it, and it died.

Did not even come up for a vote.

Vote.

It gives the Vice President an opportunity to talk about that bill,

talk about the things that are in it,

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