“I think we should ban plastic straws,” Vice President Kamala Harris said during the 2020 presidential campaign, highlighting her record as the most left-leaning senator in 2019.
GovTrack’s scorecard ranked Harris as the most liberal senator of 2019, further to the left than socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
“Yes, I’m a radical,” Harris acknowledged at a public event at Google in 2010.
When asked at a CNN town hall meeting if she would ban plastic straws, Harris replied, “I think we should ban them.”
One year ago today, Kamala Harris joined Joe Biden’s crazy “call to action” to ban plastic straws.
pic.twitter.com/YIzZXsaE1o— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 4, 2020
Harris has yet to back down on her stance on banning plastic straws in the 2024 presidential election, but she appears to be backing away from many of the policies she has previously championed, raising concerns about whether voters can trust the de facto Democratic nominee.
Harris no longer supports a “federal jobs guarantee,” a Harris campaign spokesman said, on condition of anonymity. Washington Examiner on wednesday.
Neither Harris nor her campaign aides have fully embraced the change in policy positions in public statements, raising questions about what her true position is.
Harris’ list of radical policies includes:
- To support “Some form of compensation”
- Co-sponsored bills To protect illegal immigrants from deportation
- backup Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All Bill
- backup Ban Private health insurance
- support give Taxpayer-funded insurance for illegal immigrants
- support Ban Hydraulic fracturing
- backup Funding cuts police
- By comparison From ICE to the KKK
- I want to ban it Plastic straws
- Defending the ban Offshore drilling
- Trump administration attempts to “undo” border security 94 administrative actions Within the first 100 days, the administration has rolled back nearly every Trump-era measure.
- support Decriminalizing illegal border crossings
- Said She won’t “treat” illegal immigrants as “criminals.”
- Called “Start” [ICE] From Scratch
- Discussed Temporarily closing the border would violate federal law.
- Raised Funding the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a far-left organization that pays bail for violent criminals, including murder and rape suspects.
- support Los Angeles Police Department Cuts
- He called for efforts to get more police on the streets.The wrong idea“
- He supported the administration’s so-called “Biden Economics” at a time when costs for American families are rising dramatically.
- I boasted. About being a “leader” in the movement to “abolish bail money from America.”
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Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “Bat” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
