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Kamala Harris Alters Liberal Positions on Key Policy Issues Amid Republican Attack Ads

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Kamala Harris, has shifted her stance on several key policy issues, including fracking, border control, healthcare, and policing. This move comes after she faced criticisms from former President Donald Trump, who attacked her previous liberal views during the 2020 presidential primary race.

 

Harris, who previously positioned herself to the left of the Democratic Party, has now softened her opposition to fracking and private healthcare. She also emphasized her tough record on crime and illegal immigration at the southern U.S. border. This strategic repositioning is in response to a barrage of Republican attack ads, with the Trump campaign launching its first advertisement against her on Tuesday. The ad described her as “failed,” “weak,” and “dangerously liberal,” targeting voters in six battleground states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

 

The Trump campaign has particularly criticized Harris for her role in border control under Joe Biden’s administration, highlighting the surge in illegal crossings from Mexico. Trump has labeled her as Biden’s “border czar,” a title never officially bestowed upon her but used by the media since 2021. The ad revisited a 2021 interview where Harris responded to questions about her absence at the border by saying, “I haven’t been to Europe. I mean, I don’t understand the point you’re making.”

 

Since taking over as the presumptive Democratic nominee on July 21, Harris has distanced herself from some of her earlier liberal positions as a California senator. In 2017, she co-sponsored Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare-for-all” bill, advocating for a national healthcare system similar to the NHS. However, she has since moderated her views, suggesting that private medical debt should not affect credit scores.

 

During the 2020 campaign, Harris unequivocally supported a ban on fracking, which is crucial for U.S. natural gas and oil production. Her campaign clarified on Friday that she would not ban fracking if elected. She has also portrayed herself as a tough prosecutor, highlighting her role as California’s district attorney and moving away from her 2020 call to “redirect resources” from policing following George Floyd’s murder.

 

In her 2024 campaign, Harris has emphasized her achievements as a prosecutor, stating, “I took on perpetrators of all kinds” and listing her efforts against predators, fraudsters, and cheaters. The Trump campaign’s attack ad drew attention to Harris’s previous statements on the U.S. migration crisis, where she called for a more humanitarian approach. However, her campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, reaffirmed on Saturday that Biden’s tough border policies would continue under Harris.

 

Some Democrats are concerned about the border issue, particularly in Arizona, a key battleground state with significant concerns about illegal migration. Responding to Trump’s border attack ads, a spokesperson for Harris’s campaign accused Trump of spreading “his trademark lies” about her policy positions. The spokesperson highlighted Harris’s career as a district attorney, attorney general, and Vice-President, underscoring her commitment to prosecuting violent criminals and ensuring community safety.

 

Harris’s strategic shift in policy positions aims to counter Republican criticisms and appeal to a broader electorate as she campaigns for the presidency.

 

Credit: Daily Telegraph  2024-08-01

 

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  • She is just copying Trump's policies in an attempt to get elected.   If she gets elected her extreme leftist views will return. 

  • No no! According to Riclag and other MAGA posters she's a Marxist-Leninist and Chekist politician! 😀 

  • Trump has policies?

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No no! According to Riclag and other MAGA posters she's a Marxist-Leninist and Chekist politician! 😀 

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7 minutes ago, candide said:

No no! According to Riclag and other MAGA posters she's a Marxist-Leninist and Chekist politician! 😀 

 

She is just copying Trump's policies in an attempt to get elected.

 

If she gets elected her extreme leftist views will return. 

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50 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

She is just copying Trump's policies in an attempt to get elected.

 

If she gets elected her extreme leftist views will return. 

Trump has policies?

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Always thought she supports the bipartisan border bill and law and order that hasn’t changed.

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Would love for her to explain in detail why she now is an adamant proponent of fracking next trip to PA. 

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Thankfully for the MAGA morons Trump never changes his position on anything. 

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6 hours ago, Tug said:

Always thought she supports the bipartisan border bill and law and order that hasn’t changed.

Damn Tug - There was no bipartisan border bill.  Biden lied as usual saying he wanted 1500 border agents.  These would NOT be agents but paper pushers to process the 15 to 20 million people he let into the country.  He over turned 92 Immigration laws Trump put into place.  ALL he had to do was rescind the 92 Trump actions he destroyed.  I know this is too deep for you and the other Leftist here but try to understand.  Just once.  Prove me wrong - you can't.

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Kamala Harris Mocked After She Suddenly Acquires a New Accent During Atlanta Rally: 'Transparently Fake'

 

A Democrat is a Democrat no matter how you dress them up.  Thank God I am not one.  Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and now Kamala Harris.  All phonies, all Liberals, all hate America, all are liars, all support and are supported by our enemies, all are Marxist and Communist in their thinking.  This is why Bernie Sanders loves them.  Trump is the real deal.  This is why he connects with real people.  He doesn't need useful idiots.

The Democratic Party’s most fervent supporters have already proven that they care nothing about opportunism or dishonesty. Feed them platitudes about identity, and they will vote blue no matter who.  With the thinking portion of the electorate, however, Republicans have a real opportunity. In fact, as of Wednesday, they have exactly 97 days to showcase Vice President Kamala Harris as often as possible.  Happily, a pair of videos that showed Harris speaking in a “transparently fake” accent at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday has gone viral on the social media platform X.  Greg Price of the State Freedom Caucus Network posted the videos side-by-side. As of Wednesday morning, the post had more than 2.7 million views.  In the first video, recorded one week ago, Harris sat on the set of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Looking into the camera, the vice president enunciated her words and used a measured tone, as if speaking to children.

“We are all in this together, and your vote is your power,” Harris said, nodding her head for emphasis — all with no trace of an accent.  At the Atlanta rally, however, the vice president suddenly morphed into legendary actress Hattie McDaniel’s “Mammy” character from “Gone with the Wind.”  “You all helped us win in 2020. And we gonna do it again in 2024,” Harris said in a forced southern accent. Each “20” in the year “2020” came with an unmistakable drawl. And the “4” in “2024” sounded much closer to “fo” than “four.”

“Here is Kamala Harris, who was born in California to Jamaican and Indian college professors, talking to drag queens in Los Angeles a week ago vs. black people in Atlanta tonight. Fakest human being that has ever lived,” Price posted.

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Kamala Harris went to speak in Atlanta and now has a Southern accent. LSU coach Brian Kelly is jealous. But in all seriousness, why do people do this? It’s just so transparently fake.

 

On one hand, former President Donald Trump has remained consistent. Everywhere he has appeared in public for the last nine years, he has sounded like a New York City real estate developer who loves America and wants to restore its former greatness, only this time with peace and prosperity for all Americans. He has railed against open borders, idiotic trade deals, endless wars and a corrupt establishment. He has never changed.

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8 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

She is just copying Trump's policies in an attempt to get elected.

 

If she gets elected her extreme leftist views will return. 

Policies? Drill baby drill is not a policy. It is a silly slogan. Shut the border is not a policy. It’s a diversion to scare people. 

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I hope this is untrue. The more left-wing she is, the more I like her. I'll vote for her anyway since she is running against Trump.

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8 hours ago, candide said:

Trump has policies?

 

Here it is for you AGAIN:


1.    Seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion
2.    Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history
3.    End inflation, and make America affordable again
4.    Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
5.    Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower
6.    Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
7.    Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
8.    Prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country -- all made in America
9.    End the weaponization of government against the American people
10.    Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders
11.    Rebuild our cities, including Washington DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
12.    Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
13.    Keep the US dollar as the world's reserve currency
14.    Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
15.    Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations
16.    Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children
17.    Keep men out of women's sports
18.    Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again
19.    Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship
20.    Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success

     --2024 Republican Party Platform

 

You'll note it omits anything about abortion, no "ban" constantly lied about on the left. SCOTUS settled that matter. And it specifically supports Social Security and Medicare, refuting leftist nonsense about "throwing grandma over a cliff."

20 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Policies? Drill baby drill is not a policy. It is a silly slogan. Shut the border is not a policy. It’s a diversion to scare people. 

 

See just above, AGAIN.

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Harris 2024 is running screaming from Harris 2020. It is quite funny to see.   The problem is that there is a long and storied line of proof that she was perhaps the most left-leaning of all Senators (sorry Bernie and Liz).  Now suddenly she is 'moderating' her positions? Complete craven political asshattery.

 

Oh, and it wasn't Trump who labelled her "border czar". That was the entirety of the MSM when she was appointed by Biden to "speak with his voice" on the issue. And note that nobody corrected the media for 3 years when they used the term. But now, it is politically embarrassing, so suddenly it is a taboo term.  Again, how shallow. 

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The funny thing is that Harris hasn't given any press conference where she MIGHT be confronted on all her backpedaling and lying. Her campaign is putting out all her supposed new positions. Hee.

 

But eventually she's going to have to answer for herself.

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biden / harris gave 3 billion of taxpayers  money to the EPA,Environmental protection agency!

In turn the Epa funds groups through grants that promote , anti American, anti jew, anti police propaganda!

 

These radical anti American groups just endorsed kharris!

 

 

 

20 minutes ago, riclag said:

biden / harris gave 3 billion of taxpayers  money to the EPA,Environmental protection agency!

In turn the Epa funds groups through grants that promote , anti American, anti jew, anti police propaganda!

 

These radical anti American groups just endorsed kharris!

 

 

One of the groups of the EPA is ,Climate Justice Alliance!

What else does Climate Justice Alliance do? Last November it helped to coordinate a “March on Washington,” where protesters waved the banner “Free Palestine Is a Climate Justice Issue.” Other slogans included “Our Government Funds Palestinian Genocide” and “Only Socialist Revolution Can Stop World War III.”

 

https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/in-the-news/editorial-the-radicals-getting-your-tax-money

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These radical groups that support & endorsed her Presidency rioted in Washington , DC , took down the USA flag burned it while putting up the flag of Palestine!

 

Sick , shame , shame , kharris!

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57 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

Here it is for you AGAIN:


1.    Seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion
2.    Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history
3.    End inflation, and make America affordable again
4.    Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
5.    Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower
6.    Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
7.    Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
8.    Prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country -- all made in America
9.    End the weaponization of government against the American people
10.    Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders
11.    Rebuild our cities, including Washington DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
12.    Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
13.    Keep the US dollar as the world's reserve currency
14.    Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
15.    Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations
16.    Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children
17.    Keep men out of women's sports
18.    Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again
19.    Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship
20.    Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success

 

     --2024 Republican Party Platform

 

 

 

You'll note it omits anything about abortion, no "ban" constantly lied about on the left. SCOTUS settled that matter. And it specifically supports Social Security and Medicare, refuting leftist nonsense about "throwing grandma over a cliff."

 

You are confusing wish list and policies. For example, how does Trump exactly intends to fight inflation (while at the same time giving tax cuts and imposing more tariffs)?

 

Plus, plenty of those wishes are based on B.S. conspiracy claims, such as end the weaponisation blah blah...

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58 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

Here it is for you AGAIN:


1.    Seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion
2.    Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history
3.    End inflation, and make America affordable again
4.    Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
5.    Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower
6.    Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
7.    Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
8.    Prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country -- all made in America
9.    End the weaponization of government against the American people
10.    Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders
11.    Rebuild our cities, including Washington DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
12.    Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
13.    Keep the US dollar as the world's reserve currency
14.    Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
15.    Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations
16.    Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children
17.    Keep men out of women's sports
18.    Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again
19.    Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship
20.    Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success

 

     --2024 Republican Party Platform

 

 

 

You'll note it omits anything about abortion, no "ban" constantly lied about on the left. SCOTUS settled that matter. And it specifically supports Social Security and Medicare, refuting leftist nonsense about "throwing grandma over a cliff."

 

Thanks for this list.
The only ones I support 100% are 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, and 20—although we would probably not agree on the means of achieving them.
The other one I also support with some rewording is 10, by removing the words "migrant" and "foreign."
I consider the rest of them just more right-wing, nationalistic, neo-fascist, anti-democratic bull<deleted>.

This will be an interesting election.

I believe the more attack ads, the less likelihood of success because few people like rudeness. Talk about the policies will get more votes.

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10 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

She is just copying Trump's policies in an attempt to get elected.

 

If she gets elected her extreme leftist views will return. 

She’s No Trump or Flip Flop Vance 

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5 minutes ago, candide said:

You are confusing wish list and policies. For example, how does Trump exactly intends to fight inflation (while at the same time giving tax cuts and imposing more tariffs)?

 

No, you're confusing policies with the implementation of the policies, as leftists tend to do. Helping leftists confuse voters with lies about implementations, and start busily attacking them, won't help the election effort.

 

6 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Thanks for this list.
The only ones I support 100% are 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, and 20—although we would probably not agree on the means of achieving them.
The other one I also support with some rewording is 10, by removing the words "migrant" and "foreign."
I consider the rest of them just more right-wing, nationalistic, neo-fascist, anti-democratic bull<deleted>.

How. An you cut taxes for workers and not tax 1% , America will Fall 

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6 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Thanks for this list.
The only ones I support 100% are 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, and 20—although we would probably not agree on the means of achieving them.
The other one I also support with some rewording is 10, by removing the words "migrant" and "foreign."
I consider the rest of them just more right-wing, nationalistic, neo-fascist, anti-democratic bull<deleted>.

 

No one cares whether you agree or not. But I wouldn't worry too much. Trump may be too busy, again, to do much of anything but fight with the Deep State, propaganda media, political lawfare, impeachment trials, and a deluge of lies from the left. 

 

However, doing nothing would preferable to Kamala's doing something.

3 minutes ago, Irish star said:

How. An you cut taxes for workers and not tax 1% , America will Fall 

 

OMG. Mommy, I'm scared.

22 minutes ago, Irish star said:

How. An you cut taxes for workers and not tax 1% , America will Fall 

Number 6 just says, "Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!" I support that. It doesn't say anything about increased taxes on the rich. But, yes, I definitely support significant tax increases on the rich. 

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22 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

No one cares whether you agree or not. But I wouldn't worry too much. Trump may be too busy, again, to do much of anything but fight with the Deep State, propaganda media, political lawfare, impeachment trials, and a deluge of lies from the left. 

 

However, doing nothing would preferable to Kamala's doing something.

I like to post my thoughts on some of the comments. That's what these forums are for. I do care somewhat about what others think, not about what I post but about what they post. Some people, like you, who believe in the "Deep State" and are Trump supporters, are very, very scary.

Soon, Trump won't be busy at all. He'll be locked up in a cell somewhere - I hope! That would be the second-best thing that could happen to him. 

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9 hours ago, candide said:

Trump has policies?

yes, but just one.  It will be his policy to exact revenge upon those that resisted his ascension to the throne.

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