In the last vote before a 45-day recess, House Republicans voted for a resolution formally criticizing the Biden administration and Kamala Harris for not securing the border. That’s standard politics.
What was less standard were the six Democrats who joined House Republicans to chastise Harris, though their decisions could also boil down to politics.
Of the six Democrats who voted for the resolution, almost all of them are in tough reelection campaigns with serious GOP challengers. The partisan voting index score of each of their districts — essentially a measure of how Republican or Democratic the district is — ranged from nine points in the GOP’s favor to three points in favor of Democrats.