Vice President Kamala Harris argued this week that an ad exhibiting a clip of her previous rhetoric about fracking is deceptive and “intended to make people afraid of my presidency.”
CBS Pittsburgh's Jon Delano spoke with Harris in an interview on Tuesday, difficult her to make clear her evolving stance on fracking, one of many key points the place she has been accused of flip-flopping for political acquire.
“I wanted to ask you, there’s a political ad on TV from a 2019 climate hall town meeting that you had, in which you basically said, quote, ‘There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,’ unquote,” the interviewer mentioned. “The ad claims that if you are elected president you will ban fracking and you will cost Pennsylvania over 300,000 jobs. Have you changed your view on fracking, and if so, why?”
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KDKA-TV's Jon Delano spoke with Harris in an unique interview, difficult her to make clear her stance on fracking.
“So let me start by saying that that ad, as you described it, is absolutely a mischaracterization, that I think is intended to make people afraid of my presidency,” Harris mentioned.
“Let me be absolutely clear, as I’ve been when I said it back in 2020, I will not ban fracking. I did not as vice president. In fact, I cast the tie-breaking vote to open up more fracking leases,” she added, referencing her position as vp in getting the so-called Inflation Reduction Act by means of the deadlocked Senate.
In 2020, Harris was requested about fracking throughout her vice presidential debate in opposition to then-Vice President Mike Pence, however didn't reveal a reversal of her said 2019 opposition to fracking, as an alternative merely saying that Biden wouldn't ban fracking as president.
“Joe Biden will not end fracking. He has been very clear about that,” Harris mentioned.
“I will repeat and the American people know that Joe Biden will not ban fracking. That is a fact. That is a fact,” she added throughout one other portion of the controversy.
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Cochise College Douglas Campus in Douglas, Ariz., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
On Tuesday, Harris mentioned, “My perspective on this is grounded in a number of things, including that we don't have to ban fracking to do the work that we can do to also invest in a clean energy economy.”
She then made a number of guarantees to American voters.
“I'm going to bring jobs back to rural communities. I'm going to make sure that we invest in those communities that have done the kind of work that you have in mind when you talk about Pittsburgh, when you talk about the greater aspect of Pennsylvania,” she pledged. “And I'm going to keep doing that work.”
“That's where I stand, period. As President of the United States, I will not ban fracking,” Harris mentioned.
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Fox News' Aubrie Spady and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
