CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday tore into Vice President Kamala Harris for flip-flopping her “extremely different” stance on the US oil industry.
CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday said Vice President Kamala Harris has taken a “very sharp turn” on the campaign trail to an “extremely different” stance on the US oil industry.
Harris — who had touted an anti-fracking platform as a presidential hopeful four years ago — is now “pounding the table for the US oil industry and oil production,” the news anchor said during “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Tuesday.
But that is “not the way it always was,” Burnett added.
The news network aired several back-to-back clips of Harris vowing to take on big oil during her 2020 presidential run – along with footage of her applauding the same industry today.
“We have had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over-rely on foreign oil,” Harris boasted in a clip from a campaign stop in Philadelphia last month.
Her vice-presidential pick, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, echoed her praise.
“America’s producing more natural gas and more oil than at any time in our history,” Walz said on Tuesday.
