COLUMBUS, Ga. – Former President Bill Clinton said when he was running for Vice President Kamala Harris that on monday election it will come down to whether there are fair and transparent votes.
Asked by NBC News what she would decide on the outcome, Clinton said, “Kim wants it bad enough and we can get an honest, open account.”
A Clinton aide later said he meant it various reports threats and intimidation against election officials.
Clinton stood up to Harris in Georgia, where her remarks to voters on Sunday raised eyebrows when she debated immigration.
Trying to claim that Harris is more serious than former President Donald Trump in finding solutions to border and immigration problems, Clinton, He was killed in February Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student, and the man charged in her death, a Venezuelan national who entered the United States illegally in 2022.
If all migrants had been properly vetted, Clinton said, “this probably wouldn’t have happened.”
Trump, who has made immigration a key to his re-election bid while casting doubt on election security since his 2020 defeat, used Clinton’s testimony against Harris’ campaign to say the man accused of killing Riley entered the United States days before Harris called the border. safe.”
The Harris campaign said Clinton’s remarks were taken out of context. In her full speech, Clinton said that the United States needs “vetted” immigrants to work. He also touched on Trump’s successful efforts to sink bipartisan bill border security would be strengthened this year.
Clinton is one of several high-profile surrogates campaigning for Harris as the race enters the final stages, including former President Barack Obama. A A new survey from NBC News shows that the contest is deadly.
Bianca Seward contributed.