Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy burned Vice President Kamala Harris — and her failure to address the crisis at the southern border — during a testy exchange with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Doocy’s questions came after 24 hours of breathless legacy media coverage in which multiple outlets tried to help Harris put distance between herself and the ongoing disaster at the U.S.-Mexico border — with some even going so far as to discredit their own previous coverage of President Joe Biden’s decision to name her the Border Czar.

Doocy began by holding up a card that has reportedly been circulated to Democrats on Capitol Hill and to media that outlines the new talking points on Harris and her “official” job with regard to the southern border.

“Democrats on Capitol Hill are being handed this card with talking points about the Vice President and the border. Do you know who’s handing this out?” Doocy asked.

“I have no idea,” Jean-Pierre replied, suggesting, “You probably should ask her campaign.”

“So, the first one says, ‘Vice President Harris was never appointed border czar. There’s never been such a position. It doesn’t exist,” Doom pressed. “Why are Democrats so sensitive about the Vice President and the border?”

Jean-Pierre attempted to throw the question back to Doocy, blaming Republicans for the recently scrapped bipartisan border legislation.

“Why are Republicans so sensitive about actually not owning up to them getting in the way of a border deal? Why?” she asked, blaming former President Donald Trump for its failure. “Why are they so sensitive to moving forward and actually dealing on an issue that majority of Americans care about is dealing with what’s going on at the border?”

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Doocy: “Do you think that the border would be less of a talking point now if there was less migration to the border, say, if somebody had addressed root causes of migration sooner?”

KJP: “Well, wait, hold on a second. Did you not hear the beginning of my — it was — I know there… pic.twitter.com/GMQSFScHMK

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2024

Doocy pushed back, making use of the fact that even the newly-issued talking points conceded that Harris had been tasked with addressing the “root causes” of migration: “Do you think that the border would be less of a talking point now if there was less migration to the border, say, if somebody had addressed root causes of migration sooner?”

Jean-Pierre responded by claiming that all progress at the border had been made by President Biden and Vice President Harris — although she failed to mention that some of their more recent improvements were potentially the result of quietly reimplementing policies from the previous administration.

“They sought — they — he moved forward and took actions to deal with what’s on at the border. Republicans continue — continue to block getting resources to the Border Patrol agents. They continue to block actually dealing with an immigration system. So, yes, we are going to debunk the false — the false, you know, characterization of the Vice President. She was not a border czar, and it’s not just us. Independent fact-checkers have said the same thing that that did not exist and that is not true,” she insisted.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Vice President Kamala Harris during a press conference this week after she launched her presidential campaign and effectively locked up the Democratic presidential nomination in just 24 hours following President Joe Biden’s announcement that he was ending his campaign.

DeSantis correctly noted that Harris was rated as the most far-left member of the U.S. Senate, a fact that the media has attempted to bury this week in addition to the media rewriting history surrounding Biden putting Harris in charge of the border.

“I think that … her tenure as VP has been disastrous,” DeSantis said during the press conference. “She was put in charge of the border. The media was running with that in 2021. Now they’re saying, ‘Well, no, she wasn’t overseeing the border’.”

He said that all the same reporters who correctly reported in 2021 that she was placed in charge of the border are now “writing the opposite.”

“They’re running interference for her because, of all the failures, that border ranks near the top of the failures of the Biden-Harris administration,” he said. “If you go back and watch her statements for when she was running for president in the 2020 cycle, I mean, she basically said, have an open border, she wants taxpayer-funded health care and benefits for illegal aliens. She doesn’t think you should deport somebody. So she is, as bad as Biden has been on that, she’s even more liberal on that.”

He also highlighted her record of wanting to force all Americans onto a government health care program, supporting confiscatory tax increases, being weak on crime, and supporting rioters who were arrested during the violent Black Lives Matter riots in 2020.

DeSantis posted the clip on X and added that she also wanted to destroy the oil and gas industry and confiscate the guns of law-abiding citizens.

“The Democrats are only excited about Kamala Harris at the moment because they no longer have a candidate who’s catatonic. But she may fall flat on her face before the convention,” he added.

He noted that she was forced to drop out of the Democratic primary in 2020 before any of the voting started because she failed to gain any traction with Democratic primary voters.

“She’s a lousy candidate and would be an even worse president,” he added.

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Kamala Harris was the most liberal U.S. Senator in Congress.

She wanted to get rid of private insurance, eliminate oil & gas, provide benefits to illegal aliens, and confiscate the guns of law-abiding citizens.

Then Joe Biden appointed her as “border czar” and we all know how… pic.twitter.com/SG6UhPs0rl

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) July 25, 2024