In a memo on Saturday, Vice President Harris' campaign criticized former President Trump for “frequently changing his tune” on policy issues.
“Mr. Trump must be held accountable for his brazen change of attitude, which is completely at odds with how a president should govern,” the campaign said.
Harris' campaign acknowledged the recent attacks on her policy positions as Republicans seek to target the vice president's policy positions during her 2020 Democratic primary run.
Harris addressed the concerns in an interview with CNN on Thursday, saying her “values haven't changed.”
Her campaign argued that Trump has made “embarrassing” policy proposals that deserve scrutiny and is “just making things up” in hopes that the American public will forget about his record as president.
“So let's look at his actual track record on some of these important issues,” the Harris campaign said.
The campaign pointed to a recent post by Trump in which he expressed support for legalizing recreational marijuana in Florida. The memo criticized Trump's actions during his time in office, saying his administration had “rolled back marijuana reform” by reversing guidelines that would limit prosecutions.
The campaign also focused on a hot-button issue in this election: in vitro fertilization (IVF), a treatment that has been temporarily halted since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that a fertilized egg is a child.
Earlier this week, President Trump said the government would cover the costs of IVF treatment for families, either through government or insurance. Harris' campaign has sharply criticized Trump, accusing him of having “deep ties” to the anti-IVF movement.
A memo from Harris' campaign said Trump's policy platform, linked to his campaign website, could effectively ban IVF by establishing “fetal personhood.” Because IVF treatment involves creating a fertilized egg outside the uterus, the campaign said IVF would be put at risk under the fetal personhood plan.
The memo also outlined Trump's “no tip tax” ideas, a view Trump said at a Las Vegas rally that hospitality workers should not be taxed on tips, and which Harris recently said she supports.
“But during Trump's presidency, his administration stole $700 million annually from tipped workers and enacted regulations that allowed employers to monopolize employee tips,” the campaign argued.
The Harris campaign also criticized Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), for saying they wanted to expand the child tax credit. Under Trump's leadership, Republicans in Congress blocked “multiple efforts” to expand the credit and passed Trump's tax cuts that hurt working families, the campaign argued.
Harris' campaign argued that Trump was portraying himself as “an entirely different candidate” because of the vice president's national support.
In a statement to The Hill, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Chang said it was surprising that Harris would accuse Trump of reversing his past convictions.
“It's ridiculous that Comrade Kamala would accuse someone of changing their tune when in fact she has lied about her positions on everything from fracking to the border to the disaster in Afghanistan,” Chang said in a statement. “This is even more disgusting gaslighting from a disgusting person with no conscience and no qualifications to actually be president. It's disgraceful!”
