During her presidential debate with former President Donald Trump, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly denied that she believes in banning fracking. But she said she supported exactly that in September 2019 as a guest on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
“Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our world today. That’s why I am committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all,” Harris said during the broadcast, after which Fallon declared that Harris “doesn’t give a frack.”
At the time of the appearance, Harris was a left-wing senator from California who had a myriad of progressive statements in her policy quiver as she ran briefly for the Democratic presidential nomination. Her repudiation of fracking was not unique to the Tonight Show.
She also said much the same thing during a CNN town hall that same September when she declared there was “no question” that she was “in favor of banning fracking,” the New York Post reported. But during the Tonight Show statement, she also gave a thumbs up to the Green New Deal, a radical project envisioned by Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) and criticized by conservatives. […]
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