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Harris dodging flip-flop attacks as faceless surrogates flip key positions: ‘Playing politics’

by August 15, 2024
written by August 15, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris could be ‘playing politics’ by allowing her subordinates to take the lead on her making major policy shifts, rather than pushing them herself, a Republican strategist says.

Unnamed officials have announced Harris’ new stances, reversing positions she had previously stated on issues such as fracking and ‘Medicare for All,’ but Harris herself has not yet publicly addressed these changes.

While the Harris campaign appears to be pushing a reworked agenda, one political strategist told Fox News Digital that ‘anonymous, on background campaign staffers do not take public policy positions, candidates and elected officials do.’

Dallas Woodhouse, State Director for American Majority-North Carolina, a nonprofit conservative training organization, said that Americans should assume that every position taken by Harris during her previous presidential campaign for President and the positions taken by the Biden-Harris administration are exactly hers today, ‘until she herself explains otherwise.’ 

‘The American public will never accept a candidate changing all their stated positions from just a few years ago without thorough examination and explanation,’ he added.

Harris advisers recently told Axios that ‘Harris doesn’t want to be completely defined by the Biden-Harris record.’ The publication reported that she is seeking to distance herself from Biden on several issues, including his economic policies.

Fox News Digital asked the Harris campaign if she plans to personally announce her new stance on the key issues but did not receive an immediate response.

These are some of the major issues on which she has reversed or walked back her views.

1. Fracking

Harris said during her first presidential bid in 2019 that she would ban fracking if elected – a key issue among a critical voting bloc in battleground states like Pennsylvania.

‘There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking, I have a history of working on this issue,’ Harris said in 2020.

Republicans, including former President Trump, have used her past comments on the issue to blast her in several campaign ads since she launched her 2024 campaign.

But campaign officials for the Democratic nominee are now saying that Harris will not ban fracking if she’s elected president.

2. ‘Medicare for All’

Harris published a plan for ‘Medicare for All’ during her 2019 presidential election, writing that her goal was to ‘end these senseless attacks on Obamacare’ and that she believes ‘health care should be a right, not a privilege only for those who can afford it. It’s why we need Medicare for All.’

‘The idea is that everyone gets access to medical care. And you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork all of the delay that may require. Let’s eliminate that,’ Harris wrote in 2019.

Additionally, then-Senator Harris cosponsored Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Medicare for All Act of 2019.

Despite her past support, a campaign official told Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy that Harris will not push the subject of ‘Medicare-for-all’ this cycle.

Colin Reed, a Republican strategist, previous campaign manager, and co-founder of South and Hill Strategies, expressed skepticism regarding the credibility of Harris’ recent policy change.

‘When Vice President Harris ran for the White House five years ago, she was a sitting U.S. Senator and the former attorney general of the largest state in the nation. In other words, an extremely accomplished individual with plenty of time on the national stage to form opinions on the big issues,’ Reed told Fox. ‘The idea that she could, over the span of five years, just change her tune on a dime on a slew of major big ticket items strains credulity,’

Reed said her shift on Medicare For All ‘would cost $44 trillion dollars – more than our entire $35 trillion dollar national debt.’

‘Either she was wrong then or is playing politics now, and voters will figure it out whenever she decides to answer questions in an unscripted setting.’

3. No Taxes on Tips

Under the current Biden-Harris Internal Revenue Service rules, taxpayers must report all tip money as income on their tax returns. Harris has supported measures that allowed the IRS to track and tax workers’ tips and even cast a tie-breaking vote in 2022 to pass legislation that increased IRS funding for this exact purpose. 

However, Harris recently said that she supports ending taxes on tips for service worker employees – an idea floated earlier this summer by Trump, who received plenty of positive feedback.

‘We’ll continue our fight for working families of America,’ Harris said at a recent campaign rally. ‘Including minimum wage, and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.’

4. The Border Crisis

Vice President Kamala Harris has previously supported rolling back Trump-era border policies but is taking a stronger position on the southern border crisis this election cycle.

When record numbers of migrants were coming through the border in 2022, Harris said that ‘the border is secure,’ during an appearance on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’

Harris was criticized by border state Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, shortly thereafter, who told CNN that ‘the border is not secure.’

Harris is now making border security a top priority for her 2024 campaign, talking tough on the campaign trail and suggesting in a new campaign ad titled, ‘Tougher,’ that more needs to be done.

‘Fixing the border is tough, so is Kamala Harris,’ a voice in the ad can be heard saying. 

‘Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting violent crime. As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border,’ a narrator says. ‘As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades. And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.’

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