The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is displaying a mobile billboard in Eagle Pass, Texas, to greet former President Trump on his trip to the U.S. southern border.
The DNC’s mobile billboard will play a video attacking Trump on his immigration record, and for his hand in killing this month’s bipartisan border deal, the committee first told The Hill.
The video highlights that Trump’s policies separated families at the border, playing news clips and clips of Trump’s speeches.
“And now for pure politics, he’s killed the bipartisan border deal,” the video reads, playing other news clips. “Trump doesn’t care about securing the border. He only cares about himself.”
The DNC will also launch ads on the homepage of the Eagle Pass News Leader, the local newspaper.
“Donald Trump doesn’t care about securing the border, he only cares about himself – and his visit to Eagle Pass is only spotlighting how he directed MAGA Republicans to kill a bipartisan deal for the toughest, fairest border security reforms in decades,” DNC rapid response director Alex Floyd told The Hill.
While Trump is in Eagle Pass, President Biden is set to meet with officials in Brownsville, another Texas border town. Biden and his campaign have sought to remind voters that Trump helped kill the bipartisan border deal.
House Republicans refused to take up the deal — which a group of senators from both parties unveiled earlier this month and received a White House endorsement — after Trump had urged Republicans to oppose the deal. Trump, Biden’s likely GOP challenger in this year’s general election, suggested it was bad politically for Republicans, and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) deemed the deal dead on arrival in the lower chamber.
Meanwhile, Trump, in recent days, has hit Biden over the death of Georgia college student Laken Riley after police charged a Venezuelan migrant with her killing, arguing crime from migrants is worse under Biden.
“When voters head to the ballot box this November, they’ll remember how Trump put himself and his political ambitions ahead of securing the border and delivering for the American people,” Floyd said.