CNN’s fact-checker Daniel Dale took exception to Vice President Kamala Harris‘ declare that she “made clear” she did not assist a fracking ban in 2020.
Harris has raised eyebrows in latest weeks due to varied coverage flip-flops she has undergone because the Democratic nominee in 2024 versus the far-left stances she embraced within the earlier election cycle, together with on fracking. Again in 2019, she known as for a whole ban.
Throughout an interview Thursday with CNN’s Dana Bash, Harris was requested point-blank whether or not she nonetheless supported a ban on fracking.
“No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking,” Harris stated. “As vice president. I did not ban fracking. As president, I will not ban fracking.”
Vice President Kamala Harris raised eyebrows when telling CNN’s Dana Bash that her “values haven’t changed” after making full reversals on far-left positions she held in 2019. (Screenshot/CNN)
When pressed whether or not her fracking views modified throughout the 2020 marketing campaign, Harris doubled down, telling Bash, “In 2020, I made very clear where I stand. We are in 2024, and I’ve not changed that position nor will I going forward. I kept my word and I will keep my word.”
“The fact-check bottom line… is that she did not actually make clear at a 2020 debate that she had changed her previous support for a fracking ban,” Dale reacted throughout CNN’s post-interview protection.
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CNN’s Daniel Dale fact-checked Harris’ declare that she was “very clear” about her fracking stance throughout the 2020 presidential election. (Screenshot/CNN)
After enjoying a 2019 clip of Harris saying there’s “no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” Dale pointed to feedback she made within the vice-presidential debate when she stated “Joe Biden is not going to finish fracking. He is been very clear about that.”
“It makes perfect sense that at the time she was speaking on behalf of Biden, the president, not the vice president, sets administration policy, but maybe other people feel differently. I certainly did not hear anywhere in there about Kamala Harris saying that she personally had abandoned her previously expressed 2019 view. Rather, again, she was speaking for Joe Biden,” Dale concluded.
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Dale wasn’t the one liberal journalist who took Harris to process. NBC Information correspondent Yamiche Alcindor additionally known as out Harris’ non-explanation for her coverage shifts, writing “Harris keeps saying ‘my values haven’t changed’ while not explaining why her positions have changed.”
Harris was going through intense scrutiny for going a number of weeks with out granting an interview because the Democratic nominee. (REUTERS/Kevin Wurm)
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Harris had gone almost a whopping 40 days earlier than sitting down for an interview since she emerged because the Democratic nominee. Her reluctance to grant interviews and maintain press conferences was more and more criticized, which solely intensified following final week’s Democratic conference.
The VP additionally was slammed for doing her very first interview alongside her working mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz fairly than a solo sit-down.
