She Flipped on Fracking Ban ‘During the 2020 Election, and A Little Before That’
On Friday's CNN News Central broadcast, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), co-chair of the Harris-Waltz campaign, argued that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for 2024 president, “stated very clearly years ago, during the 2020 election and shortly before that, that she supports fracking as a method of energy production in this country,” and that […]
CNN fact-checks Harris’ claim she now supports fracking: She said otherwise in 2020
CNN reported that Vice President Kamala Harris did not give a straight answer when asked about her sudden change of stance on the issue of fracking, despite having said until recently that she had always supported a ban on fracking. In her first interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris said she does not […]
‘Values Have Not Changed’: Kamala Harris Embraces Fracking After Her Admin Teed Off On Fossil Fuels
Vice President Kamala Harris, in an interview with CNN on Thursday night, suggested she has supported fracking since 2020, but the Biden-Harris administration has pushed through a number of aggressive anti-oil and natural gas policies since 2021. Harris said in 2019:There is no doubtShe was a supporter of the “Drill for Oil” bill, which said […]
CNN fact checker hits Kamala Harris for claiming she ‘made clear’ in 2020 she wouldn’t ban fracking
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale disputed the claim that Vice President Kamala Harris “made it clear” that she did not support a ban on fracking in 2020. Harris, a potential 2024 Democratic candidate, has drawn public attention in recent weeks for reversing her policies on fracking and other issues from the far-left positions she supported in […]
Don’t Think She Regrets Suing Obama to Block Fracking, She’s ‘Always Kept to Her Values’
On Thursday's broadcast of NewsNation's “The Hill,” Quentin Fulks, chief deputy campaign manager for the Harris-Waltz campaign, said he doesn't think Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, has any regrets. Suing the Obama Administration “The Vice President has always stood by his values and will continue to do so as President of […]
CNN’s Dana Bash Corrects Harris Claiming She ‘Would Not Ban Fracking’
In a highly anticipated interview that aired Thursday, CNN's Dana Bash harshly criticized presidential candidate Kamala Harris for her past calls for a ban on fracking. During the 2020 presidential primary, Kamala Harris said she would ban fracking. “There's no question I'm in favor of a ban on fracking,” Harris said from the debate stage, […]
Harris Was Not Accurate on Fracking Comments
CNN's Daniel Dale said on Thursday's “Newsnight” that Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris' comments about fracking in an interview with anchor Dana Bash were inaccurate. “The conclusion of the fact check is that she did not actually disclose during the 2020 debates that she had changed her previous support for a fracking ban,” […]
Kamala Harris claims she will ‘not ban fracking’ as president in major policy flip-flop
Vice President Kamala Harris vowed Thursday that she would “not ban fracking” if elected president, a major shift from the position she took when she first ran for the White House. “As vice president, I did not ban fracking, and I'm not going to ban fracking as president,” Harris said in her first interview since […]
Harris claims she ‘made clear’ her position on fracking in 2020 – transcript shows another story
In her first interview since emerging as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vice President Kamala Harris stressed that she would not ban fracking if elected, claiming that she made her position on fracking “clear” during the 2020 election. “No, I said in the 2020 debates that I would not ban fracking. As vice […]
Harris Supported Fracking Ban in Last Presidential Run Because She Represented Bay Area, Didn’t Know About It
On “CNN News Central” on Thursday, CNN political commentator and Democratic strategist Paul Begala said Vice President Kamala Harris, a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, has changed her position on banning fracking since she last ran for president because, “You represent the Bay Area, and there isn't a lot of fracking going on in the Bay […]