Kamala Harris has said in her latest policy U-turn that she no longer wants to ban plastic straws.
Democrat presidential candidate At a CNN town hall meeting in 2019, he said: “We need to ban plastic straws.”
Her campaign now says Ms Harris has changed her mind and “does not support banning plastic straws”.
“She cast the tie-breaking vote on the most consequential legislation to combat climate change and create clean energy jobs in history, and as president, She will focus on expanding on that progress” a Harris campaign official told Axios.
“He even joked about how bad paper straws are and the need to come up with better eco-friendly alternatives,” added the official.
Attacks from Trump
The move may be intended to prevent further attacks from the Trump campaign, which has previously highlighted the policy.
Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told NBC in July: “Kamala Harris had it A long, generous, radical record in California Before he also became the Vice President.
He continued: “I mean, heck, he wants to get rid of plastic straws for goodness sake.”
A number of US cities, including Seattle, Washington DC and Malibu, have already banned single-use plastic straws. They have also been Banned in the UK and parts of the European Union.
A series of U-turns
Ms. Harris has been criticized Changing her position on a number of key issues Since being nominated.
In addition to her latest U-turn, her team has said — through unnamed aides — that it no longer supports Medicare for All or mandatory gun buy-back programs, both of which she called for during her 2020 Democratic primary campaign.
Ms. Harris also disclosed this in late August She no longer wants to ban frackingShe held another position during the 2020 primary race. The position change could boost her chances of winning the swing state of Pennsylvania, a hotbed for oil and gas drilling.
She told CNN that she now believes it is possible to “grow and grow a prosperous clean-energy economy without banning fracking.”
Ms. Harris insisted during the interview that her “values haven’t changed,” even if she has some policy ideas.
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