With Biden out of the race, House Republicans have shifted to investigating Harris over the border and Walz over connections to China.

From The Hill. As Democrats enthusiastically turn their attention to the Democratic Party’s new presidential ticket, so have House Republicans, who in recent weeks have launched a series of investigations into Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

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House Republicans, who had spent much of the past 3 1/2 years investigating President Biden, are now re-aiming their congressional firepower at Harris’s limited role in migration and border policy and Walz’s China ties.

That messaging recalibration extends to terminology.

In the weeks since Biden dropped his reelection bid, some GOP committees have made a noticeable stylistic change to their press releases and letters, adding “-Harris” to many products that previously criticized only the “Biden administration.” …

Some other efforts have been more blatant.

In a move that served to counter pro-Harris messaging at the Democratic National Convention, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.), and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) held a press call last week criticizing the vice president in the wake of a new inspector general report about the challenge Immigration and Customs Enforcement has had in tracking court dates for unaccompanied migrant children. …

“Vice President Harris was put in charge of the border when the UAC [unaccompanied minor] disaster began and — and these original decisions were made, and this is largely her fault and done on her watch,” Johnson said on the call. …

Republicans are also putting investigatory resources behind their criticism.

In another effort to highlight Harris’s involvement in border issues, House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) … asking for documents and communications with Harris about her work on immigration matters. …

In his letter to CBP, Comer said it’s “unclear what actions, if any, Vice President Harris has taken to fix the border crisis.” …

And it is not only Harris getting the scrutiny. Lawmakers have also seized on Walz’s connections to China.

The former educator spent a year teaching in China in 1989, and later led field trips to the country — visiting China dozens of times.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin questioning whether Walz complied with foreign travel reporting requirements for his security clearance as he traveled to China while serving in the National Guard.

And in a letter to the FBI, Comer asked the agency to acknowledge whether it has ever offered any defensive briefings to Walz, a practice by which the agency informs politicians and other figures whether they may be a target of Chinese intelligence or influence efforts. Comer also asked the FBI to turn over information on more than a dozen Chinese entities, including some it’s unclear Walz had any contact with. …

Walz has … been a critic of China, meeting with the Dalai Lama and a Hong Kong democracy activist, and cosponsoring the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act in the House.

Still, Comer in press interviews is suggesting that Walz’s China ties could be even more concerning than those of Biden’s family members …

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(Excerpt from The Hill. Photo Credit: Office of Governor Walz & Lt. Governor Flanagan – https://www.flickr.com/photos/144763110@N08/53879060458/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=151435032 and Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Kamala Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78594193)