Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance said Friday he was “a little sorry” for Vice President Kamala Harris because she didn't seem to understand why she took certain policy positions in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash.
Harris and her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, spoke Thursday night in their first interview since Harris launched her presidential campaign on July 21. Vance said on “Fox & Friends” that Harris seemed “unsure” when talking about her current policy positions.
“In fact, if you look at what she says and the way she says it, it's clear that she doesn't have very strong convictions. Even though I was at odds with her, I felt a little sorry for her because it was clear that she wasn't entirely convinced and didn't fully understand why she was saying the things she was saying. She was coached to pretend to be a moderate, but unfortunately, she's governing as a San Francisco liberal and because of it, Americans are poorer, the world is more chaotic and the borders are wide open,” Vance said.
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Harris has shifted away from many of the policy positions she initially took as a senator and as a 2020 presidential candidate. During her 2019 vice presidential campaign, she said there was “no question” she would ban fracking, but in her interview with Bash on Thursday night, she made it clear she does not support a ban on the practice. (RELATED: It didn't take long for the Harris campaign to backtrack on its left-leaning positions)
Harris said Bash argued that her values had not changed despite the policy changes, while Vance responded by saying the vice president “may have plainly lied” about his support for fracking.
“I think Kamala Harris may have told an obvious lie in addition to what she's already said here,” Vance said. “Think about it. Kamala Harris said she changed her mind during the 2020 debates. Her last debate was in 2019, and she dropped out of the race before the voting began. So if she's saying she changed her mind about fracking during the general election, [vice presidential] “What Kamala Harris said in the debate was not true. She never did that. So I think Kamala Harris got away with very dishonestly revising her record there.”
During the 2020 presidential election, Harris also pledged to end private health insurance, implement mandatory federal gun buybacks, and Suggested Illegal border crossings should be decriminalized. Harris previously called a US-Mexico border wall “un-American” and a “stupid waste of money,” but later voiced her support for a border wall during the 2024 campaign.
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