Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance expressed on Friday that he “felt a little bad” for Vice President Kamala Harris, as she appeared uncertain about the reasons behind some of her policy positions during her interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.
Harris and her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, participated in her first interview on Thursday night since announcing her presidential campaign on July 21. Vance commented on “Fox & Friends” that the vice president didn’t seem “sure-footed” when discussing her present policy stances.
“If you actually watch what she was saying, the way that she was saying it, it’s clear that she doesn’t have very strong convictions. I actually, even though I’m running against her, I felt a little bad for her because it’s clear that she wasn’t totally sure-footed and she didn’t totally know why she was saying the things that she was saying. She’d been coached to pretend to be a moderate, unfortunately guys, she’s governed as a San Francisco liberal, and because of it, Americans are poorer, our world is more chaotic and our border is wide open,” Vance said.
Harris has shifted many of her policy positions from those she originally advocated as a U.S. senator and 2020 presidential candidate. In 2019, the vice president stated there was “no question” she would support a ban on fracking, but during her interview with Bash on Thursday night, she assured that she would not endorse such a ban.
While Harris claimed that her values have stayed consistent despite these policy shifts, Vance suggested that the vice president “may have told an explicit lie” regarding her stance on fracking.
"I felt a little bad for her": JD Vance said Kamala Harris did not appear "sure-footed" throughout her CNN interview pic.twitter.com/qdexaceQ6Z
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“I actually think that Kamala Harris may have told an explicit lie on top of what she’s already said here,” Vance said. “Think about this, Kamala Harris says that she’s changed her mind in 2020 on the debate stage. Her last debate was in 2019 because she dropped out of the race before it really got to voting. So if she’s saying that she changed her mind on fracking during her general election [vice presidential] debate, that’s not true. She definitely did not do that, so I think Kamala Harris got away with a very dishonest sort of revision of her record there.”
