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Harris dodging flip-flop attacks as faceless surrogates flip key positions: 'Playing politics'
Vice President Kamala Harris could be "playing politics" by allowing her subordinates to take the lead on her making major policy shifts, rather than pushing them herself, a Republican strategist says.Unnamed officials have announced Harris' new stances, reversing positions she had previously stated on issues such as fracking and "Medicare for All," but Harris herself has not yet publicly addressed these changes.
While the Harris campaign appears to be pushing a reworked agenda, one political strategist told Fox News Digital that "anonymous, on background campaign staffers do not take public policy positions, candidates and elected officials do."
Dallas Woodhouse, State Director for American Majority-North Carolina, a nonprofit conservative training organization, said that Americans should assume that every position taken by Harris during her previous presidential campaign for President and the positions taken by the Biden-Harris administration are exactly hers today, "until she herself explains otherwise."
"The American public will never accept a candidate changing all their stated positions from just a few years ago without thorough examination and explanation," he added.
Harris advisers recently told Axios that "Harris doesn't want to be completely defined by the Biden-Harris record." The publication reported that she is seeking to distance herself from Biden on several issues, including his economic policies.
Fox News Digital asked the Harris campaign if she plans to personally announce her new stance on the key issues but did not receive an immediate response.
These are some of the major issues on which she has reversed or walked back her views.
1. Fracking
2. "Medicare for All"
3. No Taxes on Tips
Under the current Biden-Harris Internal Revenue Service rules, taxpayers must report all tip money as income on their tax returns. Harris has supported measures that allowed the IRS to track and tax workers' tips and even cast a tie-breaking vote in 2022 to pass legislation that increased IRS funding for this exact purpose.However, Harris recently said that she supports ending taxes on tips for service worker employees – an idea floated earlier this summer by Trump, who received plenty of positive feedback.
"We'll continue our fight for working families of America," Harris said at a recent campaign rally. "Including minimum wage, and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers."
4. The Border Crisis
Vice President Kamala Harris has previously supported rolling back Trump-era border policies but is taking a stronger position on the southern border crisis this election cycle.
When record numbers of migrants were coming through the border in 2022, Harris said that "the border is secure," during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Harris was criticized by border state Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, shortly thereafter, who told CNN that "the border is not secure."
Harris is now making border security a top priority for her 2024 campaign, talking tough on the campaign trail and suggesting in a new campaign ad titled, "Tougher," that more needs to be done.
"Fixing the border is tough, so is Kamala Harris," a voice in the ad can be heard saying.
"Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting violent crime. As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border," a narrator says. "As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades. And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking."
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The word is the IOC is considering awarding Kamala the Gold Medal for Flip Flopping.
