Tue Feb 27, 2024 AT 10:08 AM EST
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling visits to the Texas border on Thursday, jockeying for political advantage and blame on an issue increasingly crucial to voters.
Biden, who has largely ignored the border and has only briefly visited it once, will look at a relatively calm area in Brownsville. Trump, who frequently visited the border while in office, will be about 300 miles away in Eagle Pass, where the border is far more chaotic and where the federal government and Texas are enmeshed in a brewing constitutional crisis over the state’s efforts to combat illegal immigration on its own.
“Biden’s handlers are sending him there on the same day as President Trump’s publicly reported trip, not because they actually want to solve the problem, but because they know Biden is losing terribly,” said Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Read Full Story