In Arizona, JD Vance Visits Half-Finished Border Wall
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Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) talks to local law enforcement, border patrol officials, and local ranchers as he tours the U.S. border wall in Montezuma Pass, Ariz., on Aug. 01, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
COCHISE COUNTY—On the U.S. side of the southern border, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) stood before a gap—a hole in the border wall—as he prepared to speak.
As the land rose behind him, the thin, rust-brown line separating the United States from Mexico blinked out: wall, wall, wall, then nothing at all.
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