On Friday, Peter Doocy of Fox News asked Jean-Pierre if President Biden will accept Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the likely next Speaker of the House, invite to visit the southern U.S. border.
When Doocy correctly claimed that Biden had never visited the border, Jean-Pierre responded, “Look, he has been there, he has been to the border.”
When Doocy asked her when Biden had visited the border, she remained silent.
In response to a similar query from Doocy in Sept. 2021, then-Press Sec. Jen Psaki stated that she didn’t know if Biden had yet visited the border.
“There has been reporting that he actually drove through the border while on the campaign trail in 2008,” she remarked a month later. She appeared to be referring to a Washington Post piece that investigated Biden’s claim to already have visited the border and discovered that “Biden just briefly drove past the border when he was on campaign tour in 2008” in El Paso, Texas.
The Post also stated:
“On Oct. 17, he held a event in Mesilla, New Mexico. According to David E. Wade, the trip’s press officer, the jet landed in El Paso and the motorcade then drove the almost one-hour drive to the Las Cruces suburb. The journey led Biden through a road that hugs the US-Mexico border for only a few minutes. It was foreign territory for most of us,” Wade remarked, “recalling how some reporters had joked about traveling across the border during the trip.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is conceivably given the task of trying to address the “root causes” of the continuing migrant crisis at the border, made one real trip to the border the year before, also to El Paso, after the White House began to fear being outdone by former Pres. Trump, who already had announced a trip.
