CNN’s Dana Bash Flat Out Asks DHS Sec Mayorkas About Trump’s Claim Biden WH is Letting Migrants in to Change US ‘Electoral Dynamics’

CNN anchor Dana Bash, on Sunday, confronted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about a racist conspiracy theory which has been peddled by former President Donald Trump.

In an interview on “State of the Union,” Bash relayed comments made by Trump on Saturday in which he pushed what is known as the great replacement theory — a conspiracy theory often pushed by White supremacists which holds that the U.S. government is trying to diminish the electoral impact of White voters by allowing an influx of migrants to enter the country.

“Donald Trump yesterday suggested that on the campaign trail that President [Joe] Biden has a deliberate strategy to let migrants across the border because, he says, President Biden wants to ‘overthrow the United States’ and ‘nullify the will of the actual American voters and establish a new base of power that gives them control for generations,'” Bash said. “What’s your reaction to that?”

Mayorkas initially punted on the question, citing the Hatch Act which prohibits government officials from addressing campaign politics while speaking in an official capacity. But Bash rephrased so that Mayorkas could comment.

“Is it the policy of the Biden administration to allow as many migrants to come across the border in order to change the political dynamics, the electoral dynamics, of America?”

The Homeland Security Secretary bristled at the question.

“Of course not,” he said. “And the facts indicate that is absolutely false. Since May of this year, of last year, we have removed or returned more individuals than in any year since 2015. And we haven’t even run 12 months over the last three years. We’ve removed, returned or expelled more people than in all four years of the prior administration.

“You know, the facts matter. And the rhetoric, we should brush aside.”

Watch above, via CNN