Last month, Jazz wrote about a new Kamala Harris campaign ad which led to some immediate mockery online. The ad, titled "Tougher" highlighted her allegedly tough stance on the border. Mockery of the ad focused on the fact that it include images of the Trump border wall. The producers of the ad were clearly using the wall as a symbol of how tough Kamala had been (and would be in future) on the border. The ad includes three shots of the wall in just 30 seconds.

There's one big problem with all of that. Kamala Harris has never been a supporter of the border wall. Credit where due, yesterday, CNN's KFile ran a story about what Harris used to say about the wall before she started running for president. She was not a fan.

In her 2019 book, “The Truths We Hold,” Harris called the wall “useless” and said it was “nothing more than a symbol, a monument standing in opposition to not just everything I value, but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built.”

A CNN KFile review of Harris’ social media posts found that she criticized the border wall more than 50 times during the Trump administration, calling it, among other things, “stupid,” “useless,” and a “medieval vanity project.”

You can follow that link to see all of her posts about this but for convenience, here are a few:

As I said, Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer.https://t.co/YFK7yb3SHX

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 2, 2020

Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda couldn’t be more clear. He has separated families. Locked children in cages. Sought to spend billions on his border wall, which is nothing more than a vanity project. That is not reflective of our values and it has to end. #DemDebate

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 28, 2019

Trump’s border wall would be an absolute waste of taxpayer money. I won’t support it.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 13, 2018

Trump’s border wall is a waste of money. We should be using that money for flood relief, infrastructure, and tuition-free college.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 30, 2017

Harris was a major Democratic campaigner against the wall for years. And notice in the tweet above she said the wall was "not reflective of our values." When challenged, in her only interview so far, about some of her flip-flops on issues like fracking and Medicare for All, Harris claimed her values haven't changed. But comparing her outspoken comments about the wall to that ad above, it looks like her values have changed. That or her campaign is just lying.

And the KFile story didn't stop there. It points out that Harris has also flip-flopped on asylum.

Harris was one of seven US senators who signed onto an amicus brief in late 2018 supporting a lawsuit filed by asylum seekers challenging a Trump administration rule that effectively barred all asylum claims outside ports of entry...

While running for president in 2019, Harris pledged to respect asylum law and called restricting asylum a “stain on our moral conscience.”

“Under a Harris administration, issues like asylum, for example, we are gonna honor the process and not try to circumvent the process and expedite the process for the sake of some political goal as opposed to the sake of justice and fairness,” Harris said on the “Pod Save America” podcast in 2019.

But here we are a few years later and the Biden administration is limiting who can claim asylum at the border. And Harris herself has vowed to sign a border bill which would "largely bar migrants from seeking asylum if they crossed the border unlawfully." Again, it sounds like Harris' values have changed quite a bit. It's lucky for her she never gives interviews otherwise someone might ask her about it.

I think we all know what's really going on here. The border is a political problem for Harris and the Democrats so they are shifting their rhetoric (and their ads) to the right to blunt those criticisms. It really is that simple. Harris will flip-flop on anything to get elected. If she has any real core values or beliefs about the border, she's more than willing to keep them a secret until November.