Vice President Harris is a do-nothing presidential candidate who is a “failure” as border czar, according to a Chicago Democrat who told The Post he wasn’t sure he could vote for her in November.
Hours before Harris gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Alderman Raymond Lopez struggled to list any of the veep’s achievements so far at the White House.
“What about the last three and a half years when we had 10 million people manipulate our asylum process in order to gain access to this country?” said Lopez, 46, who represents the crime-scarred South Side.
“She has come to this city numerous times . . . never once visited any one of the city’s shelters. Never once brought money to help the city of Chicago offset the [migrant] burden, never once addressed the issue of how we are going to adjudicate these asylum claims quicker,” he said.
“I have yet to hear anything that pertains to my communities or my concerns come out of our presumptive nominee’s mouth. And I, for one, am not being taken for granted.
“I want to see an explanation and a solution for how she’s going to move forward with addressing immigration,” Lopez said. “You cannot talk to me here in this room about how democracy is on the line when you’re ignoring the sovereignty of our nation.”
Like New York City, Chicago has been overwhelmed by illegal migrants who have streamed across America’s porous border with Mexico. More than 38,000 have descended on the Windy City since 2022, with taxpayers on the hook for more than $300 million in related expenses
Lopez — a lifelong Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton and President Biden — also slammed Vice President Harris’ communistic call for price controls, which critics have labeled “Kamunism” after The Post’s front page story.
“It’s crazy to do it in a non-emergency,” Lopez said. “At what point do you stop with everything being the human right that you’re trying to control. It’s a very slippery slope to go down, and I don’t think that policy was fully thought out, fully baked,” he said.
Lopez also savaged the convention — calling it a “beauty pageant of hypocrisy” — and said the Democratic Party has gone astray on several core issues.
“I don’t want to hear about how we’re making love and joy possible, and there’s so much pain in our communities because of all the violence that goes unchecked and unaddressed by many of the Democratic leaders who are still afraid of the Black Lives Matter movement,” he said.
“The Democratic Party I grew up in was able to hold people accountable while also helping to break those cycles. That’s not what we do anymore right now. We find ways to lay blame on everyone else, except for people who are committing crimes,” he added.
“There’s a lot of crazies in here.”
