Kamala Harris shows true lefty colors in CNN interview, admits her ‘values have not changed’ despite major policy flip-flops
By Steven Nelson
Published Aug. 29, 2024
Updated Aug. 29, 2024, 11:25 p.m. ET
Vice President Kamala Harris showed her true colors Thursday in her first TV interview since becoming the Democratic nominee — admitting her lefty “values have not changed” even though her positions on major policies have.
In a sit-down with CNN, Harris, 59, defended various backtracks when asked if voters can know what they’re getting — as Republicans question the sincerity of her pivots to the political center on immigration, health care and energy policy ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris told Dana Bash in her first sit-down since President Biden dropped out of the race on July 21.
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with CNN for a pre-recorded interview that aired Thursday night. 7
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with CNN for a pre-recorded interview that aired Thursday night. Will Lanzoni/CNN
The vice president used the phrase repeatedly through the nearly hour-long interview to defend herself against allegations of political opportunism.
Harris’ abandoned policy stances include her pledges to eliminate private health insurance, decriminalize illegal border crossings, ban fracking for oil and natural gas, and ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 — each of those made in 2019 when the then-California senator was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Earlier this month, Harris floated and then also backed away from plans for price controls on groceries after widespread criticism — with former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, using that proposal as an opening to nickname the veep “Comrade Kamala.”
Trump, 78, tried for weeks to goad Harris into giving her first interview as a candidate in an attempt to end her “honeymoon” phase of soft press coverage.
“I look so forward to Debating Comrade Comrade Kamala Harris and exposing her for the fraud she is,” Trump wrote on social media after the interview aired. “Harris has changed every one of her long held positions, on everything. America will never allow an Election WEAPONIZING MARXIST TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.”
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By Steven Nelson
Published Aug. 29, 2024
Updated Aug. 29, 2024, 11:25 p.m. ET
Vice President Kamala Harris showed her true colors Thursday in her first TV interview since becoming the Democratic nominee — admitting her lefty “values have not changed” even though her positions on major policies have.
In a sit-down with CNN, Harris, 59, defended various backtracks when asked if voters can know what they’re getting — as Republicans question the sincerity of her pivots to the political center on immigration, health care and energy policy ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris told Dana Bash in her first sit-down since President Biden dropped out of the race on July 21.
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with CNN for a pre-recorded interview that aired Thursday night. 7
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with CNN for a pre-recorded interview that aired Thursday night. Will Lanzoni/CNN
The vice president used the phrase repeatedly through the nearly hour-long interview to defend herself against allegations of political opportunism.
Harris’ abandoned policy stances include her pledges to eliminate private health insurance, decriminalize illegal border crossings, ban fracking for oil and natural gas, and ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 — each of those made in 2019 when the then-California senator was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.
ABC News rejects Kamala Harris' last-minute bid to change Trump debate rules, will keep muted mics
Conservatives tear apart Harris' performance in first interview since Biden's exit: 'So incompetent'
Earlier this month, Harris floated and then also backed away from plans for price controls on groceries after widespread criticism — with former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, using that proposal as an opening to nickname the veep “Comrade Kamala.”
Trump, 78, tried for weeks to goad Harris into giving her first interview as a candidate in an attempt to end her “honeymoon” phase of soft press coverage.
“I look so forward to Debating Comrade Comrade Kamala Harris and exposing her for the fraud she is,” Trump wrote on social media after the interview aired. “Harris has changed every one of her long held positions, on everything. America will never allow an Election WEAPONIZING MARXIST TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.”
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