For the past decade, Vice President Kamala Harris has been known for her extreme and divisive policy proposals, and she hasn’t shied away from expressing them out loud, in person, and on the record. Yet, in the last two weeks, since she emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee without a single popular vote, she hasn’t addressed any of these radical positions. Instead, her spokespeople have been busy denying that she ever held these extreme views. They haven’t bothered to explain why or when she supposedly changed her mind. The American public deserves to hear from Harris directly, confirming that she has indeed abandoned her previous stances and explaining why she flip-flopped.
Every journalist who gets a chance to interview Harris should push her on these critical questions. In 2019, Harris championed the idea of socializing America’s health insurance industry with her “Medicare for All” proposal. She flip-flopped on whether she would outlaw private insurance, leaving voters confused about her actual stance. Does she still believe in socialist healthcare? Would she allow private insurance to coexist, or does she aim to ban it entirely? These are questions she needs to answer publicly and clearly.
Another socialist program Harris once supported was a “federal jobs guarantee.” As a senator, she co-sponsored a bill to test the idea, but now, her spokesperson tells the Washington Examiner that she no longer supports it. Why the change? Harris hasn’t personally addressed this flip-flop, leaving the public in the dark about her current views and the reasoning behind her shift.
When it comes to immigration, Harris has been even more controversial. She introduced a bill to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency she once compared to the Ku Klux Klan. She raised her hand to decriminalize illegal entry and supported providing taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants. Harris needs to clarify whether she still supports defunding ICE and if she stands by her inflammatory KKK comparison. An apology to ICE workers wouldn’t hurt, and it should come directly from her, not a spokesperson.
In 2019, Harris declared, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” on live television. She has never publicly renounced that position. Her spokespeople claim she no longer believes in banning fracking, but we haven’t heard this from her directly. What changed her mind? Where was her reasoning flawed back in 2019? Without clear answers from Harris herself, we’re left guessing whether she has truly changed her views or if she’s merely adjusting her rhetoric to win over moderate voters.
The big question remains: Was Harris lying to win far-left votes back then, or is she lying now to appeal to moderates? The American people deserve to know where she truly stands and why her positions have seemingly shifted with the political winds.
