Fact-Checker BRUTALLY Dismantles Kamala’s Nonsensical Fracking Answer
The analysts at CNN aren’t buying Vice President Kamala Harris’ nonsensical answer about her blatant fracking flip-flop.
In her first major interview since launching her campaign last month, Harris stated unequivocally that she would not seek to ban fracking if elected. The controversial drilling process for oil and natural gas is a critical issue in Pennsylvania, a must-win state where Harris is seeking to repeat President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. However, network reporter Daniel Dale brought the receipts from Harris’s failed 2019 presidential campaign where she stated there is “no question” that she would pursue a federal ban on the practice.
Dale, sitting with host Abby Phillip, looked at the tape from last night’s interview with Dana Bash where Harris insisted her position on fracking has not changed and she “made that clear on the debate stage in 2020” against Mike Pence. “I would not ban fracking. As Vice President, I did not ban fracking. As president, I will not ban fracking,” Harris said as she ticked off the promises finger by finger. Bash read the 2019 transcript back to her, but Harris dug in. “In 2020 I made very clear where I stand, and in 2024 I have not changed that position,” she replied. That wasn’t a sufficient explanation, according to Dale.
“The fact check bottom line, Abby, is that she did not make clear at a 2020 debate that she had changed her previous support for fracking,” the reporter said before playing tape from the 2019 CNN climate town hall where Harris committed to a national fracking ban. He then reviewed the 2020 debate against Pence where Harris stated that Biden would not ban fracking — but cautiously managed to avoid stating how she felt herself. “I went over the transcript of that debate tonight. Nowhere in there does she make clear that she had abandoned her previous support for a fracking ban. Rather, she repeated that Joe Biden, the head of the Democratic ticket at the time, would himself not ban fracking,” Dale explained.
He added, “So it makes perfect sense that at the time she was speaking on behalf of Biden, the president, not the vice president, sets administration policy, but maybe other people feel differently. I certainly did not hear anywhere in there Kamala Harris saying she personally had abandoned her 2019 view rather she was speaking for Joe Biden.”
CNN analyst Bryan Lanza, speaking on a panel, was equally suspicious about Harris’s evasive answer. “I still have questions about where she is on fracking. We‘ve spent a lot of time. She clearly doesn‘t want to answer the question and I‘ll tell you why she doesn‘t want to answer the fracking question,” he said following her interview with Bash. “Because her San Francisco values are out of the mainstream in Pennsylvania. Fracking has been a long part of her issues when she was attorney general, when she was district attorney. That’s who she is.”
FASCINATING: CNN guest Bryan Lanza suggests Kamala Harris did NOT want to answer the question on fracking!
“So I still have questions where she is on fracking. We‘ve spent a lot of time. She clearly doesn‘t want to answer the question and I‘ll tell you why she doesn‘t want to… pic.twitter.com/fXrRwm6APL
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 30, 2024
Harris is clinging to a narrow lead in Pennsylvania, according to FiveThirtyEight which shows her leading former President Donald Trump 46.7% to 45%. Local pols beg to differ; earlier this month Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) predicted that his party would lose the state and cited fracking as one of the fissure lines separating his voters with a climate-crazy national Democratic Party.
