Perhaps the only thing worse than Kamala Harris's blatant flip-flopping is the way the mainstream media isn't calling her out for it. As far as they are concerned, she's merely "evolved." In the few short weeks that she's been the presumptive nominee, she's flip-flopped on fracking, single-payer health care, gun buybacks, border security, defunding the police, and more.
While the mainstream media isn't calling her out for this, the real question is whether she's fooling voters. It doesn't look like it.
As you know, Kamala promptly flip-flopped on fracking after becoming the presumptive nominee because fracking is extremely important to the economies of several states, including the important battleground state of Pennsylvania. Now, according to a report from the Washington Post, Pennsylvania voters aren't convinced that she won’t ban fracking.
And why should they be? When Kamala ran for president in 2019, she wasn't shy about her support for banning the practice, even declaring during a CNN town hall, "There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking."
“And starting with what we can do on Day One around public lands, right?” Harris said. “And then there has to be legislation, but, yes, and this is something I’ve taken on in California. I have a history of working on this issue and to your point, we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the health and safety of communities.”
Kamala Harris & Joe Biden’s radical plan to ban fracking will decimate our economy and obliterate jobs in states like Texas, Pensylvania, Oklahoma, & Ohio.pic.twitter.com/yg1ue4MBfa
— Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) August 12, 2020
It's one thing to say that someone has evolved on an issue over time, but this was during her failed presidential run. Does anyone think she truly had a change of heart?
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"After years of positioning herself as a climate crusader and ardent opponent of fracking, Kamala Harris has avoided mention of such credentials in this must-win state for Democrats, where natural gas drives the economy, culture and everyday conversation," the Washington Post reported Tuesday. "Her new approach is proving a tough sell."
Many of the swing voters here whose livelihoods rise and fall with the fortunes of the fossil energy industry have not forgotten the last time Harris ran for president, when she called for a ban on fracking — extracting natural gas by creating cracks in the earth’s bedrock. It is a position she now disavows.
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Those concerns are putting out of reach voters who might otherwise fit the profile of the vice president’s target audience. They are people like 31-year-old Emanuel Paris, whose quest to expand his family’s 400-employee construction firm into green energy projects drove him to get a master’s degree in sustainability management. He has no doubt that climate change is real.
But Paris will be voting for Donald Trump.
Partisan loyalties are one thing, but people whose livelihoods depend on the industries that Harris has committed to destroying aren't going to rush to vote for her. We're not talking about Harris's positions from decades ago — we're talking about her positions from her previous campaign. On the contrary, Donald Trump has been consistent with his positions and unafraid to tell people what his views really are.
