Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly reversed her position during the last presidential election and no longer supports a ban on fracking, her campaign announced on Friday.
“There’s no question that I’m in favor of banning fracking,” she told a CNN rally before dropping her presidential bid in 2019 and joining Biden’s list of potential candidates.
“And we should start with what we can do from day one around our public lands, right?” she continued. “And we need to enact legislation, and yes, that’s something I’ve taken on in California. I have a history of working on this issue, and you’re right, we have to acknowledge that the residual impacts of fracking are significant in terms of the health and safety of our communities.”
As a senator in 2019, Harris also co-sponsored the Green New Deal, a proposal to combat climate change that included a ban on fracking.
Trump rushes to define Harris as “more left than Bernie Sanders”
Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly reversed her position during the last presidential election and no longer supports a ban on fracking, her campaign announced on Friday. (Brendan Smiarowski/AFP via Getty Images)
“Climate change is real and it poses an existential threat to humanity. But we have the power to do something about it. I support a Green New Deal,” Harris said on the campaign trail in 2018 before dropping out, according to The New York Times.
But despite Biden saying “we’re going to abolish fracking” during a primary debate, his campaign and administration do not support a ban on fracking. His campaign later clarified that he “supports ending coal and gas subsidies and implementing carbon capture.”
Since Biden announced he was dropping out of the race last Sunday and endorsed Harris, she has softened some of the positions she took from her 2019 campaign, when she ran on a more progressive platform.
Trump was quick to portray her as a “radical liberal” after she became the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Harris is “the most incompetent, far-left vice president in American history,” the former president said at a rally in Charlotte on Wednesday.
Trump accused Harris of being “the ultra-liberal driving force behind all of Biden’s disasters. She’s a far-left lunatic who would destroy our country if given the chance to become president.”
VP Harris faces backlash in key battleground states as ‘disastrous’ anti-fracking stance resurfaces
“There’s no question that I’m in favor of banning fracking,” she told a CNN rally before dropping her presidential bid in 2019 and joining Biden’s list of potential candidates. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He added, “She doesn’t want fracking. She’s going to pay a lot of money. Very, very big money. She’s going to say, ‘Bring back Trump.'”
Tell that to Hill. Harris said she no longer wants to ban fracking, and her campaign disputed Trump’s comments.
“Trump’s false claims about the fracking ban are a clear attempt to distract from his agenda to enrich oil and gas executives at the expense of the middle class,” the campaign told The Hill. “The Biden-Harris Administration passed the largest climate change bill in history, and under their leadership, the United States now has the highest domestic energy production in history,” a spokesperson said in an email. “The current Administration has created 300,000 energy jobs while Trump has lost nearly 1 million, and his Project 2025 would undo the tremendous progress made over the past four years.”
Trump was quick to portray her as a “radical liberal” after she became the presumptive Democratic nominee. (Travis Dove/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Kamala Harris is the most left-leaning progressive presidential candidate in history, and every policy she supports is one that radical Rust Belt Democrats align with,” Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the Republican National Congressional Committee, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
He added, “A ban on fracking would have disastrous consequences for workers and their families. The efforts of Radical Democrats to remove Biden from office and replace him with San Francisco radical Kamala Harris show how out of touch they are with the electorate.”
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Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
