For the first time, Vice President Kamala Harris has released answers about her policy positions and pledges if elected president. But what should have been a moment of relief for the otherwise vacuous campaign became a stunning embarrassment that even CNN anchors couldn’t keep from ridiculing.
Social media users previously uncovered that much of Harris’s new “Issues” page on her website, titled “A New Way Forward,” appears to have been lifted directly from the old campaign website of President Joe Biden. To make matters worse, CNN’s Erin Burnett was struck dumb by the duplicity of what Harris is promising today versus what she pledged to progressive groups just five years ago while running for president. Reporter Andrew Kaczynski showed the anchor evidence of Harris in 2019 promising to support federal funding for gender transition care among new migrants. Today, that commitment on an ACLU questionnaire is nowhere to be found on her website.
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Burnett, going on, drew sharp contrasts between the Harris of then and now. “In 2019, [Harris] said she would cut funding to ICE,” Erin Burnett said, the Gateway Pundit reported. “Taxpayer funded transition surgery for detained migrants? She actually said she supported that?!” she asked Kaczynski incredulously. “You would be hard to think you would come up with taxpayer-funding gender transitions for detained migrants.” On X, the Trump campaign piled one, writing, “Comrade Kamala’s record is so extreme, even Erin Burnett couldn’t believe it” and sharing a clip of her stunned face.
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Kaczynski added that Harris also pledged to pay for gender surgery for federal prisoners, slash immigration detention by 50%, and close all privately run detention facilities. Finally, she promised to order ICE to end all partnerships with local law enforcement to detain migrants suspected of crimes until authorities can arrive and detain them for deportation. The change would effectively nationalize the sanctuary policies of sapphire blue cities and states.
Further down in the 2019 questionnaire, the ACLU asked if Harris would support the decriminalization of all controlled substances in order to better address drug abuse as a public health crisis. Harris answered affirmatively. “What would this mean?” Kaczynski asked Burnett. “All drug possession, not just marijuana… fentanyl, crack, cocaine, things like that.”
The vice president struggled to keep her composure last week during a joint interview with running mate Tim Walz. Pressed on her evolving positions, Harris maintained that her beliefs “haven’t changed” and mostly blamed Trump and Republicans for distorting her record. Speaking with CNN reporter Dana Bash, Harris defended her record. “You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. We have set goals for the United States of America and by extension the globe around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as an example,” she said.
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