Kamala Harris Turns Back Against FrackingWendell Husebø 21 Oct 2024
A top climate Harris campaign aide appears to be walking back Vice President Kamala Harris’s unconditional support of fracking, a position she opposed in 2019 when she vowed to ban it.
The flip flop underscores claims made by critics that Harris is an empty political shell with intentions to do or say whatever is needed to get elected.
A near-majority (48 percent) of Americans believe Harris just says what she thinks people want to hear, while only 36 percent think she says what she believes, a recent Economist/YouGov poll found.
Camila Thorndike, Harris’s climate engagement director, told Politico last week that Harris no longer supports land leases for fracking. Harris touted the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that contained provisions to expand leases for fracking.
Harris cast the bill’s tie-breaking vote in the Senate. President Joe Biden later signed the bill.
“Just to be clear, Vice President Harris hasn’t said anything that the administration hasn’t already said,” Thorndike told Politico. “She is not promoting expansion [of fracking leases]. She’s just said that they wouldn’t ban fracking and the fact that anyone could look up is that the IRA required leases, and that was not something that she promoted.”
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