Ladies leading Democrats left
By
Conn Carroll
September 23, 2024 2:00 pm
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In the days following Kamala Harris securing the delegates needed to become the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, anonymous aides began walking back many of the more progressive positions she took during the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.
Whereas in 2019, Harris told MSNBC, “We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,” an unnamed “campaign official” told reporters in 2024 that Harris still supports an “assault weapons” ban but “not a requirement to sell them to the federal government.”
On the environment, Harris told CNN in 2019, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking. We have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact on the health and safety of communities.” Fast-forward to 2024 and another unnamed “campaign official” told reporters that Harris “will not seek to ban fracking if she’s elected president.”
And on immigration, Harris, along with every other 2019 Democratic presidential nominee on the debate stage other than Joe Biden, agreed with the statement, “It should be a civil offense rather than a crime to cross the border without documentation.” Now, Harris is singing a different tune, or at least her campaign is. Asked if she still supported decriminalizing illegal border crossings, a campaign spokesperson told reporters, “The Vice President’s position is the same as the administration’s — unauthorized border crossings are illegal.”
Why did Harris take all of these radical positions, positions that are opposed by the vast majority of voters?
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