During a Wednesday broadcast on CNN News Central, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), co-chair of the Harris-Waltz campaign, responded to a question about 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris' past support for taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for federal prisoners and those in immigration detention centers, saying, “That's not really the core issue that she's focused on in this election.”
Co-host Boris Sanchez asked, “Earlier this week, you had a moment where he attacked Trump over a CNN report, which was a position Trump held when he was running for president in 2019. CNN's KFile found that Trump wrote in an ACLU survey that he supported taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgeries for immigrants in custody and federal prisoners. The campaign declined to answer CNN's questions. Trump has since said that he didn't run on that and that it's not part of his platform. Do you think Trump needs to take a position on that and neutralize it as an attack vector?”
Garcia responded, “I think she's been pretty clear in the campaign. It's not a central issue or an issue she's really focused on in this election. She's focused on lowering the price of insulin, on safe processing along the border, on immigration, on working class families, on making sure that the tax cuts for the super-rich that Donald Trump wants to make sure aren't happening. So it's not an issue. But what we know about Vice President Harris is that she's someone who actually has values, who actually represents and actually supports all people. And I think she's spoken directly to the American people about that.”
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