Republican strategist Joe Pinion countered former President Joe Biden campaign surrogate Jonathan Kott’s defense of Vice President Kamala Harris’ record on border security.

Harris is campaigning on addressing the border crisis, but nearly 70% of voters, including a majority of Democrats, believe she supports “open borders,” according to a late July Harvard-Harris survey.

On “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Kott claimed that Harris has tried to implement tough border policies as vice president. However, Pinion argued that Harris is no “savant when it comes to the border.”

“You can look at how she has been trying to govern while she’s been vice president. She worked directly with senators on both sides of the aisle to get the toughest bipartisan immigration bill that we’ve had since the 2013 one that I was part of. And the 2018 one that the Trump Administration blocked and then told Republicans to oppose,” Kott said. “So I think you can just look at that bill. She said she’d sign that bill, she’d encourage Congress to do it. And that’s what’s led to border crossings going down … we have to address the asylum … we need more judges, we need more places to house these immigrants that are coming across the border and she’s shown how she wants to do it.”

“There’s plenty of conversations to be had about the bipartisan, transpartisan failure on immigration since the time I was born. People have been using this phrase ‘comprehension immigration reform’ like a colloquial catch-all to ignore the fact they’ve gotten nothing done,” Pinion retorted. “But the fact people continue to sit here and insist that Kamala Harris is some type of savant when it comes to the border is fundamentally dishonest. ”

Over 50% of voters believe former President Donald Trump would handle immigration better than Harris, according to a Sunday New York Times/Siena College poll.

Biden appointed Harris to lead the administration’s efforts to address the border crisis in early 2021, specifically focusing on the root causes of irregular migration from Central America.

Since the start of the Biden-Harris administration, over seven million migrants have attempted to enter the U.S. through its southern border, according to data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Harris supported taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for migrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention when she was a California senator and during her 2020 presidential campaign, according to a 2019 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) questionnaire revealed by CNN on Monday.