Harris Campaign Walks Back Her Previous Fracking Walk Back

October 22, 2024

The Kamala Harris campaign is again struggling to articulate the Vice President’s stance on fracking with two weeks before Election Day. In 2019, Harris favored an outright ban on fracking, but after ascending to the Democratic Nomination earlier this year, she reversed that position. Now, a top climate staffer is walking back those comments, saying Harris would not expand fracking if she were to win next month.

Fox News reports,

“Vice President Kamala Harris would not support an expansion of fossil fuel drilling despite her recent campaign boasts about domestic oil production under the Biden administration.

“Just to be clear, Vice President Harris hasn’t said anything that the administration hasn’t already said. She is not promoting expansion [of fossil fuel drilling]. She’s just said that they wouldn’t ban fracking,”’ Camila Thorndike, Harris’ climate engagement director, said in an interview with Politico.”

We are starting to have whiplash with all the flip-flopping and walking back the Harris campaign is doing. Clearly, Harris nor her team can be trusted with what they say, especially when it comes to the energy sector.

“Kamala Harris continues to lie and twist herself into a pretzel about her positions on energy because she needs states like Pennsylvania in order to win the White House and her record of failure won’t cut it,” said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director for Power The Future. “The truth is crystal clear: Kamala Harris is lying about who she really is in order to get votes and no amount of campaign staff spin will change that reality.”