Six policies Harris has pivoted on since ascending to top of Democratic ticket
By
Keely Bastow
August 10, 2024 12:14 pm
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Vice President Kamala Harris has spent her career championing progressive legislation, from the Green New Deal to Medicare for all. Now, she’s backtracking on some of that support as she tries to rally voters behind her as the Democratic nominee since President Joe Biden dropped out last month.
Here are six policies she’s walked back support for.
Support for a mandatory buyback programA campaign official told Fox News that Harris is no longer supporting a mandatory buy-back program for AR-15s and similar guns. While running for president in 2019, she said, “We have to have a buy-back program and I support a mandatory buy-back program,” at a forum in Las Vegas
Trump has already capitalized off her previous comments, telling supporters at a Georgia rally, “She supports mandatory gun confiscation … Would anybody mind if they came into your house and took away your gun? … She’s for taking away all of your guns.”
A ban on frackingDespite saying during her previous presidential bid “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” the vice president has now walked back on that position.
A campaign official told the Hill exclusively that Harris would not seek to ban fracking if elected in November. The official attempted to turn the flip-flop on Trump, focusing on his oil-friendly position.
“Trump’s false claims about fracking bans are an obvious attempt to distract from his own plans to enrich oil and gas executives at the expense of the middle class,” the spokesperson said in a statement to the outlet.
“The Biden-Harris Administration passed the largest ever climate change legislation and under their leadership, America now has the highest ever domestic energy production,” the spokesperson added.
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