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Harris’s policies have shifted and are still taking shape
The Washington Post ^ | August 14, 2024 at 6:18 p.m. EDT | Yasmeen Abutaleb and Tyler Pager

Posted on 08/14/2024 3:58:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Kamala Harris, amid a furious battle for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019, embraced a ban on fracking and offshore drilling. She supported Medicare-for-all. At one point, she advocated abolishing private health insurance. And she signaled an openness to a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Now, the vice president’s campaign says she would not pursue the fracking and offshore drilling ban — it’s a highly unpopular position in states like Pennsylvania where natural gas drives the economy — if she becomes president. She does not support a single-payer health-care system, instead focusing on what she and President Joe Biden call “corporate price-gouging” by pharmaceutical companies. And she is taking a much harder line on illegal immigration, arguing that Republicans are to blame for blocking a tough border-control measure this year.

Since Harris catapulted to the top of the Democratic ticket less than a month ago, she has been forced to reiterate that she rejects a wide array of positions she embraced five years ago, a dynamic likely to become even more evident as she rolls out pillars of her agenda in coming days. On Friday in North Carolina, she is set to outline her economic plan, which is expected to largely mirror Biden’s efforts to lower costs for middle-class families, including by curtailing late fees, hidden costs and junk fees. But Harris’s aides stress that she will roll out myriad policies that are unique to her.

In 2019, Harris articulated a series of liberal positions as she sought to distinguish herself among a crowded group of Democratic contenders, many of them tacking to the left to court voters in the primaries. Now her singular focus is taking on Republican nominee Donald Trump, with a big emphasis on winning over swing voters.

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1 posted on 08/14/2024 3:58:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’s doing the old Johnny McCain Conservative Two-Step, huh?


2 posted on 08/14/2024 3:59:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Banana Voo Doo Queen is putting illegal scumbags on a Free Ride on the American Dream Express.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah she’s become a MAGA conservative. /s

And all this happened in the last month. Amazing.


3 posted on 08/14/2024 4:00:16 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One thing few mention is how far to the “center” can the fake Kamala go without alienating the Left core of the Dem Party?

Bill Clinton’s Sister Souljah moment was when he knew his loyal base would tolerate his dissing a black woman. Not all politicians can do that.

So will the climate change fanatics, the single payer socialist healthcare Marxists who want to end private insurance and the anti-Israel bigots just go along with the “new” Kamala or why go on supporting someone who isn’t working on their side enough?


4 posted on 08/14/2024 4:02:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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She’s been the VP for 3 1/2 years. She has no plan for being a POTUS?

Did she figure Pedo Pete would live forever?
Thought she’d just wing it if he didn’t?


5 posted on 08/14/2024 4:03:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (His son nicknamed him Pedo Pete. (mic drop))
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To: frank ballenger

Core values. They don’t need em’.


6 posted on 08/14/2024 4:05:16 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Williams

The old “The dog ate her homework, Kamabla has to rewrite her essay.” excuse.

Cause, y’know, Kamabla hasn’t been in office prosecuting the current policies for 3 1/2 years, or knew since the primaries she would be swapped in as the “new and fresh” candidate, or doesn’t have an army of democratz writing those policies anyway, nah, nothing like that.

Anyone who buys this crap is a moron or a shill. Meaning every democrat (though they probably know this is a sham but don’t care as long as they keep power. “Democracy” my ass).


7 posted on 08/14/2024 4:06:19 PM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Screw interviews, screw lowly republicans, screw America. She’ll turn into anything you want (phony accent and all), say anything you want to hear. But don’t expect anything to change the far left liberal agenda will continue if she gets her way.


8 posted on 08/14/2024 4:06:41 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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Translation: Her speech writers are still trying to find the right set of lies which will fool you.


9 posted on 08/14/2024 4:07:51 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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The theme for the Harris Campaign is “Unburdened by the past, unburdened by truth, unburdened by reality,”


10 posted on 08/14/2024 4:09:20 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!s)
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Kommie, what are your objectives?


11 posted on 08/14/2024 4:09:20 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: Nateman
Translation: Her speech writers are still trying to find the right set of lies which will fool you.


12 posted on 08/14/2024 4:10:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (His son nicknamed him Pedo Pete. (mic drop))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She is on record and on video at press events passionately saying what an amazing Biden has done. Why won’t she just say she will continue with his policies? BECAUSE it will hurt her election chances!

SHE IS LYING BECAUSE she will be farther left than joeshitforbrains.


13 posted on 08/14/2024 4:13:10 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We have to elect her to find out what they are.


14 posted on 08/14/2024 4:14:58 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And WaPo is in on it.


15 posted on 08/14/2024 4:17:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL she hasn’t changed her position on anything..other than being on the bottom instead of the top..the reason why her campaign refuses to let her speak is because they are afraid she will spill the beans on her TRUE agenda, which is scary as hell and they know that internal polling most don’t support it


16 posted on 08/14/2024 4:18:30 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So it’s an admission that she is fake. Fake centrist. Fake loyal American. Fake energy supporter. Fake supporter of the middle class. Fake supporter of women. Fake laugh. It must be hard work not being able to be her REAL Marxist self.


17 posted on 08/14/2024 4:20:04 PM PDT by Kudsman (Stop the steal 24: Vote early)
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She is and always has been, like her parents, a radical extremist progressive Marxist Communist.


18 posted on 08/14/2024 4:22:33 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SHE & HER “POLICIES” are like nailing jello to the wall.


19 posted on 08/14/2024 4:24:16 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Have you noticed every single rally speech she gives is almost verbatim the same. Well, the one in Las Vegas she added the plagiarized no tax on tips thing.


20 posted on 08/14/2024 4:24:48 PM PDT by Boomer (The dems and rinos (rat crap) have pegged the evil needle so hard, Satan now answers to them.)
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