Posted on 08/16/2024 4:42:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — As California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris successfully defended the death penalty in court, despite her past crusade against it.
As a new senator, she proposed to abolish cash bail — a reversal from when she chided San Francisco judges for making it “cheaper” to commit crimes by setting bail amounts too low.
And now, as vice president and the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris’ campaign insists that she does not want to ban fracking, an oil and gas extraction process, even though that was precisely her position just a few years ago when she first pursued the White House.
Politicians often recalibrate in the face of shifting public opinions and circumstances. Across two decades in elected office and now seeking the presidency for the second time, Harris has not hesitated to stake out expedient and — at times — contradictory positions as she climbed the political ladder. Harris’ litany of policy reversals is opening her to attacks by Republicans and testing the strength of her pitch to voters as a truth-teller who is more credible than former President Donald Trump.
Her shifts, including on matters that she has framed as moral issues, could raise doubts about her convictions as she is reintroducing herself to the public after taking the reins of the campaign from President Joe Biden, who last month dropped out of the race.
In addition to reversing course on fracking and cash bail, Harris has changed tack on issues including health care (she supported a plan to eliminate private health insurance before she opposed it), immigration and gun control.
“She is vulnerable to the charge of flip-flopping, no question about that,” said John Pitney, a professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College in California ...
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Standard democrat playbook. Campaign in the middle, govern from the far, far left.
I’m shocked an AP headline was negative.
Perhaps they roll out the negative stories on Friday, before the Dem convention, in order to bury it?
Look how she went after the estate of Nina Simone and the family.
How often in history has a presidential candidate from one party previously donated to his/her opponent from a different party?
The Managing Editor at AP must have been out yesterday.
We need a list of her accomplishments.
We have DTs 4 years of accomplishments list.
Let’s keep the comparison out there!
SHE CONSTANTLY “SHIFTED POSITIONS” WITH WILLIE & his WILLIE.
NOTHING NEW
Will you losers never get over your butt hurt. If you can’t offer positive support for Trump, then sit back, shut up, and let Trump do his thing. Other then that, you are just shilling for the ho.
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