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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No, her policy “changes” are merely lies to get elected. If this hag wins, she will reverse her policies once again.
It’s like 10 weeks to the election. Hey plenty of time. No matter she hasn’t had a position on anything before. She’s, what? In her ‘50s?
The wash post will cover for her so will every outlet from ‘the NYT to Jeopardy’
Whatever Trump does, they do it too. Until after the election, then when they’re installed, it is full blow commie time!
Democrats can make the same promises election-after-election because the never keep any of them.
On a different matter I just heard Stephen Smith extended invitation to Trump to go on his show! If Trump does not take the invitation he is stupid or his campaign team is really sabotaging him! He wants the cackling hyena to go on his show he’s pissed that she has not done any press conferences and he said he extend the invitation to Trump as well! Trump better snatch that invitation before the cackling hyena gets on.
She’ll switch back so fast your head will spin if she gets *elected*.
Her position and policy changes are all for show.
How many readers and online does WAPO, which is going bankrupt— have? to have even seen this crapola article.
Copy cat to umpteen no platforms? A very small number compared to X.
Just a little advice from a discerning voter here. A candidate's position on issues should come from the candidate. It's much more believable when it comes from her, not her aides and speechwriters. Also, make sure to tell her what she believes before you share it with the world. It nakes her sound like a dumb tool when you leave her out of the loop.
Not a word of any of these positions came from HER lips, so she can deny she said any of it. She won't do interviews or answer any questions, so I wonder if she's afraid to actually go on record with anything. Would you expect someone to keep a promise she never actually made?
If voters aren’t smart enough to realize that this woman has NO core beliefs at all, they deserve what they get.
(And I think she’s counting on that...)
Reinventing herself - will she be wearing “earth tones” next? Voting for things before she voted against them? Etc.
A woman who has no agenda, no core values, no reason for even running for president, but hey, she is acting as a mushy stereotypical politician. Say anything to get elected, then do whatever bad stuff she really believe in anyway.
Polls are all over the place, hope enough people are smart enough to reject this woman.
Republicans should show videos of Kamala from 2019 to show her real positions.
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