Harris famously promised to ban fracking during her 2020 run for the White House. Harris reversed course once she became the Democratic nominee for president, telling CNN in August, “I will not ban fracking.”
With less than two weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign committed what critics called an unforced error on fracking.
In a recent interview with Politico, the Harris campaign’s new climate engagement director, Camila Thorndike, said voters concerned about climate change shouldn’t fear a Harris presidency.
“(Harris) is not promoting expansion (of fossil fuel drilling). She’s just said that they wouldn’t ban fracking,” Thorndike said.
That appeared to take Harris back to her original and long-held position of opposing expanded fossil fuel use. Harris famously promised to ban fracking during her 2020 run for the White House. Harris reversed course once she became the Democratic nominee for president, telling CNN in August, “I will not ban fracking.”
After Thorndike’s comments caught the attention of the Trump campaign, Thorndike posted an updated statement on social media declaring Harris “doesn’t support banning fracking.” She repeated Harris’s comment from last month’s presidential debate that her tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act “opened new fracking leases.”
Energy groups said Thorndike’s comment proves Harris can’t be trusted.
“Wait! Change of plan from earlier this morning,” the U.S. Oil and Gas Association posted on social media. “As of this afternoon, Harris now supports fracking which is a change of position from this morning in which they opposed fracking.
