Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign recently walked back Harris’s position on EV mandates, stating she “does not support an electric vehicle mandate.” But the campaign is now shying away from questions about whether Harris would sign or veto legislation she personally cosponsored in the Senate that would implement a nationwide EV mandate.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign recently walked back Harris’s position on EV mandates, stating she “does not support an electric vehicle mandate.” But the campaign is now shying away from questions about whether Harris would sign or veto legislation she personally cosponsored in the Senate that would implement a nationwide EV mandate.
The campaign on Wednesday ignored several questions from the Washington Free Beacon asking for it to clarify Harris’s position on EV mandates. That came one day after a Harris campaign official declined to comment late Tuesday to Axios on whether she would even sign the so-called Zero-Emission Vehicles Act that she helped craft in 2019, creating the appearance that the Democratic candidate for president is running from the issue.
The Harris campaign’s refusal to state a positive policy position—instead, clarifying what her position is not—makes EV mandates the latest issue on which Harris has essentially done a U-turn.
Since ascending to the top of the Democratic ticket in July, Harris has deserted a number of significant policy positions she championed, including support for a fracking ban, support for universal health care, support for certain mandatory gun buy-back programs, and opposition to building a wall along the U.
