As he has before, Chuck Norris felt the need to take a partisan stand in the 2024 presidential election — and as you’d expect, he stuck to the far-right end of the political spectrum. He spent his Sept. 30 column lashing out at Kamala Harris for visiting the border while trying to pretend he’s not being an racist xenophobe:
When I heard that Vice President Kamala Harris was visiting the U.S. southern border for the first time in three years because she’s running now for president, especially after she and Mr. Biden let in over 15 million illegal migrants through their open-door policy, I thought, “How hypocritical!”
I’m not being rude or biased. I’m telling you the truth. And you, my American friends, have a right to know what she’s really done behind the border curtain.
Anyone who knows me knows I respect all law-abiding people. I’m all for legal immigration, but I’ve known for a fact that too much crime and criminals pass through the dark shadows of the massive illegal invasion going on since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office.
The 100% proof came Friday as Kamala was taking a photo op on the border.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released an official criminal rap sheet showing that the Biden and Harris administration let in over 662,000 criminals who are now roaming the streets of every state. I only wish I were kidding or exaggerating!
Actually, the Newsmax article on which Norris is relying for this claim does not state that all of those people came in under “the Biden and Harris administration.” But who needs facts when there is fearmongering to be done?
Consider that there were a record number of 172 people on the terrorist watchlist apprehended in 2023 alone. These numbers represent a 72% increased of apprehended potential terrorists, the most ever on record – higher than the last six fiscal years combined. That’s how many we know of! We don’t have a clue how many potential terrorists were among the 1.7 million illegal got-aways.
What more needs to be said when, in June, ICE and the FBI arrested eight Tajikistan illegals with ties to ISIS?!
Does anyone in Washington, D.C., remember 9/11 anymore?!
It only took 19 terrorists to pull off the devastation of 9/11 on America. Think what 100, who are already in our country, could do in the future?
[…]What’s crazy is that Kamala has absolutely no concern or intention to deport the 662,000 criminals she and Biden let into the country, as she even despicably dances to the chant, “Down, down with deportation!”
Norris turned in a Trump campaign tract for his Oct. 14 column:
Vice president and Democrat [sic] presidential candidate Kamala Harris keeps touting that she is going to create an “opportunity economy” for everyone.
Too late! Time’s up!
Kamala and Biden have been in the White House for nearly four years now, and Americans I’ve talked to across the nation are struggling more now than ever before.
It’s time to stop the madness. It’s time to “turn the page” on their economic misery, ineptness and skyrocketing inflation, and help Make America Affordable Again!
Norris then went on a lengthy rant about blaming Biden and Harris for inflation, ignoring that inflation was allowed in order to cool an overheating economy after the COVID pandemic, and that the U.S. has recovered from the pandemic in much better shape than most other industrialized countries:
Kamala has never owned a small business or been a corporate officer, so why would we appoint her (or even expect her to do well) over the largest economic machine in the world (America)? I remind you that she’s been at the helm with Biden for three years and nine months already and look at the mess America’s economy is in! Where’s the “opportunity economy”?!
Trump was exactly right when said, “People are going to vote [for the next president] with their stomachs.” That is, their high grocery bills will guide them how to choose a next president.
Say what you will about former President Trump, but few can argue with his economic accomplishments as president. He doesn’t need to run on empty campaign promises. It’s his record that speaks for itself.
Norris concluded by shilling for Trump, though he curiously didn’t mention him by name:
It is on account of all of the above that I urge you, fellow Americans, to pause what you are doing today and take three immediate actions:
- Please share this column with everyone you know to inform and encourage them to “Make American Affordable Again.”
- WRITE & FIGHT the feds today about their disastrous out-of-control spending and borrowing that is buckling our economy. Demand they do more to bring solvency and security to American homes.
- Most of all, on Nov. 5, VOTE and encourage others to VOTE in this presidential election. If you’re not registered, register here. It’s free and only takes a few minutes. You can find where to vote in your state here.
It’s really a very simple election: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
VOTE how your household finances and economic struggles advise you.
Together, we truly can Make America Affordable Again!
Norris’ Oct. 21 column was a gun-centric appeal for Trump:
The truth is: Our Second Amendment rights have never been in more jeopardy than they are right now, and especially through this Nov. 5 election.
Vice president and Democrat [sic] presidential candidate Kamala Harris has touted that she’s a Glock gun owner who boasted: “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot.”
She talks like a Texas Ranger but, in reality, has the gun policies and past record of a Cruella De Vil or the Grinch.
[…]The fact is: Kamala is an existential threat to the Second Amendment and Americans’ personal life, security and safety.
Harris might own a gun, but she doesn’t want you to. I guarantee you: she’ll NEVER advocate for it.
On the other hand, Trump doesn’t have a single empty-cartridge campaign promise when it comes to the Second Amendment. His record is very clear: he was a strong pro-Second Amendment president for the four years he was in office (2016-2020), and he will be as the next president. That is why the NRA and many other pro-Second Amendment groups endorsed him for president in 2024.
Norris even included a plug for WND’s in-kind contribution to Trump in the former of a hatchet job on Harris in its sparsely read Whistleblower magazine, laughably insisting that the one-sided attack is “excellent and insightful.”
Norris took a religious approach for his Oct. 28 column, recounting the stunt by right-wing trolls at a Harris rally to portray her an anti-Christian. He concluded by touting a pro-Trump propaganda film by fellow right-winger Dinesh D’Souza, declaring: “This is a must-see powerful, insightful and inspiring exposé and documentary for ALL Americans showing what the mainstream media will never tell you, including how legal ballots can be purchased and added to polling rolls.” Norris didn’t mention that D’Souza’s previous film about election fraud conspiracy theories was discredited, then pulled from the marketplace as part of a legal settlement with a man who was falsely smeared in the film as committing election fraud.
Norris’ final column before the election, on Nov. 4, was little more than a Trump campaign tract listing the “seven critical issues that guided our votes” — all of which just happened to be Trump campaign talking points. He concluded:
With the world and America in such tough shape right now, we are going to need far more than just one person (or president) to get things back on track. He or she is going to need a cabinet like few others. I struggled to put together allies who were not already a part of the Biden administration to help Kamala in her presidency. Most have names people have never heard of and are extreme progressives, who Harris met when she was ranked in 2019 as the most liberal senator in the U.S.
However, because of Trump’s previous presidency and his extensive connections with stellar leaders everywhere, he will have access to build a team and cabinet that can accomplish huge goals in expeditious time. They include RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Mike Pompeo, JD Vance, Ben Carson, Raul Ortiz, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem, Rick Perry, Nikki Haley, and many others, including some who were on his first cabinet and many other key leaders in their fields waiting to join Trump’s team.
Being such a servile shill and propagandist for Trump — a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist — undermines any independent streak Norris might still claim to have.