Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney stated that former President Donald Trump handled the border crisis much better than President Joe Biden.

“People have been screaming about the border for all three and a half years Joe Biden has been president,” Romney argued during an MSNBC interview. “He’s not done anything to solve the problem of the border. That’s a huge issue for President Trump, I can’t understand why President Biden didn’t tackle this from the beginning.”

Romney clashed with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on “The Eleventh Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” debating whether Trump could benefit from Biden’s failure to secure the border.

“That’s an issue that has worked for him, it worked for him back in 2016, he expects it will work for him again,” said Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee. “If I were President Biden, I’d be all over that, and instead he served it to President Trump on a silver platter.”

Earlier in the interview, Ruhle expressed concern about the political polarization in America. She asked Romney how Biden would be able to reunify the country, noting that “he’s got a lot of policies under his belt that he’s done for the country and worked with you.”

“The way to bring people together is not just to give a good speech,” Romney said. “Nice as that is, the way to get people together is to tell them the truth. To let them know what the real challenges are that you’re concerned about and how you’re going to honestly deal with them.”

“President Biden isn’t just giving a good speech,” Ruhle argued. “Infrastructure law is now the law, the CHIPS Act is bringing jobs back, bringing manufacturing back. Those aren’t speeches.”

“The fact that things cost more than they did before, inflation is still there. People somehow think that the prices are going to go down — no, when you beat inflation, prices don’t go down. That would be deflation, they just stabilize, and they’re getting stabilized, but the fact that people are paying more is a real concern,” Romney said.

Romney admitted, “This was not a problem when President Trump was president.”