Vice President Harris and former President Trump are seeking to ease their sharpest electoral vulnerabilities as the clock ticks down to Election Day.

For Harris, the topic is immigration, where polls show Trump with a significant advantage — and where President Biden’s record is viewed dimly by many voters.

For Trump, the issue is abortion, where Harris has a correspondingly wide edge — and where Republicans and conservatives have suffered a number of setbacks at the polls since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

Harris is expected to visit the southern border on Friday, according to The New York Times, as she seeks to harden her political tone on the topic.

The vice president’s willingness to adopt more strident rhetoric on the border has received some muted criticism from progressive groups. But center-left voices insist it is the correct course.

“Tough talk about the border upsets progressive interest groups but very few progressive voters,” Jim Kessler, the executive vice president for policy at Third Way, told this column.

Kessler argued that it was imperative for Harris to move “to the center on the border, on crime and being pro-growth on the economy — and I feel she’s done all of those things.”

There’s no mistaking the vulnerability for Harris when it comes to the border — not least because she played a leading role on the........

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