Former President Donald Trump slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for frequently changing her stance on key issues like energy, immigration, crime, health care, and more.
Trump argued that Harris’s strategy of relying on press aides to communicate these shifts instead of addressing them personally will not be sustainable in the long run.
Watch: @JDVance called @VP Kamala Harris a "chameleon" during a Mich. campaign stop Wednesday.
"She pretends to be one thing when she's in front of one audience," Vance said. "She pretends to be something else when she's in front of another audience." https://t.co/mQjuJrrBst pic.twitter.com/L1R7Rjtl3F
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One of the most notable examples of Harris’s recent reversals, which led to the New York Post labeling her “Kama Kameleon” on its Monday morning cover, involved her position on fracking:
During her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, Harris was clear in her intention to ban fracking if elected. However, a few weeks ago, after maintaining that stance for years, an anonymous campaign aide to The Hill issued a statement indicating that she no longer supported banning fracking.
.@DarrenJBeattie to @JackPosobiec: "The more we see Kamala, the more we hear from Kamala, the more don't like Kamala. They're at their best when Kamala isn't even a real person—she's a chameleon-like figure, a stand-in for the generic Democrat." pic.twitter.com/XaAD0MwyIC
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In his interview with Breitbart News, Trump emphasized that Harris’s views on energy are extreme and radical, warning that they would severely damage the U.S. economy.
“On energy, she wants everything to be run by the wind,” Trump said. “It’s crazy. She will destroy our country. Germany went that path for two years under [former Chancellor] Merkel. One of the reasons that Merkel is not there anymore is that the opposing party said, ‘We’re ruining our economy.’ Wind is very expensive energy. It frankly doesn’t work. It’s intermittent if the wind is blowing. The whole thing is crazy. In Germany, they took out the coal plants and everything else, and now they’re building a plant a week under the new government. They know it doesn’t work, and yet, they consistently want to do it. They know electric trucks don’t work. They have to stop six times from New York to California. Diesel stops not once.”
The former president insisted that his debate preparation will be straightforward, as it is simply “common sense” that Harris is a mess on the several key issues.
“She wants open borders. She wants to defund the police. She’s always wanted that. She’s never changed. Now, she wants to change,” Trump said. “She wants to say things she doesn’t believe in. She actually believes in defunding the police. She actually and absolutely believes in open borders. She was the border czar for three and a half years, and she was the worst border czar in history. She never even went to the border. They said she went once; she went to a section of the border that has nothing to do with the problems. She was a terrible border czar. Millions of people have come in. I think 20 million people have come into our country. It could be even more than that, especially with the got-aways. The got-aways are brutal. They’ve come in from all over the world, not just South America. Many, many terrorists have come into our country. Look, she wants to defund the police, and she always has. She has helped people that wanted to destroy our country like in Minnesota; she helped them get out of jail. People died in Minnesota. They went after the federal courthouse. They went after everything.”
JD VANCE: I believe, importantly, that President Trump is right that Kamala is a chameleon!#CopyCatKamala pic.twitter.com/KQfCkgL1Ru
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