VP Harris Flip-Flops On EV Mandate

August 28, 2024

Once again, we are seeing a flip-flop from Vice President Kamala Harris, who now wants us to believe she has had a change of heart regarding electric vehicle (EV) mandates. Just five short months ago, the Biden-Harris administration was celebrating EV mandates. Now, her campaign staff is trying to convince the American people that Harris is against an EV mandate.

Fox Business reports,

“Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team claimed the Democratic nominee does not agree with an electric vehicle mandate despite her history on the topic. In a “fact check” email, Harris campaign rapid response director Ammar Moussa wrote that Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, would “undoubtedly lie” about things, like that “Harris wants to force every American to own an electric vehicle.”’ “FACT: Vice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate,” Moussa wrote.” 

Power The Future Founder Daniel Turner sums up this flip-flop best,

“Kamala Harris said nothing when these rules were handed down just a few months ago by her administration, and yet again a staffer makes major policy reversal and we’re supposed to believe her? We deserve so much better than the cowardice of Kamala Harris who has hidden behind Biden and is now hiding behind a friendly media machine,” said Daniel Turner Founder and Executive Director for Power The Future. “Combined with her fracking flip-flop, this is the second major reversal from Harris against the failed energy agenda she helped craft. The inconvenient truth is Kamala Harris will abandon anything she feels hurts her politically on her quest for more power. The American people shouldn’t fall for it.”

It has been made abundantly clear that American families do not support an EV mandate. In the energy state of New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced her own mandate a little over a year ago. We did our own research into the mandate with a poll of New Mexico residents earlier this year; 59 percent opposed the Governor’s EV mandates, and 72 percent said the mandates would make it more expensive to buy a car.