By Kamala Harris often speaks about being unburdened by the past, but in her case, the past is marked by the radical positions she took in 2019 that are threatening her sudden run for president in 2024.
During the campaign so far, Harris has advocated for price controls and pushed for controversial changes to long standing norms, such as packing the Supreme Court or enacting price controls, while portraying herself as a “moderate.” However, the vice president has yet to publicly address how her views have “evolved” over the past four years. Instead, she has chosen to keep a low profile, relying on carefully crafted campaign statements to suggest a shift toward the center.
It’s no surprise that Harris is avoiding discussion of her past beliefs. Her 2019 campaign platform, which has recently come back into the spotlight, was so extreme that even the most ardent college leftists might find it too radical.
According to a ACLU political survey discovered by CNN, Kamala Harris appears to have a major problem showing sincerity.
In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris filled out as a candidate for president in 2020, she also expressed support for decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use, and for sweeping reductions to Immigration and Custom Enforcement operations, including drastic cuts in ICE funding and an open-ended pledge to “end” immigration detention.
The questionnaire has received scant media attention and a spokesperson for the ACLU claimed it had remained live from 2019. But the ACLU’s website upload and page source indicate the questionnaire was reposted last month after Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee. CNN was unable to find questionnaires filled out by other candidates from the 2020 campaign that the ACLU had reposted.
Harris has acknowledged that some of her stances have evolved over time but that she holds core beliefs that remain unshakable: “My values have not changed,” she said in an interview with CNN last month.
Harris was asked if, as president, she would use “executive authority to ensure that transgender and non-binary people who rely on the state for medical care – including those in prison and immigration detention – will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care.”
Harris replied, “Yes.”
Harris has shied away from explaining herself, but overnight, the Kamala Harris campaign finally included a list of policy positions, but it mostly revealed the Democratic obsession with Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” than anything else, writes The Washington Post.
“Titled ‘A New Way Forward,’ the page outlines her agenda on the economy as well as immigration and foreign policy. On each issue, the campaign contrasts her positions with the agenda of Project 2025, the far-right policy proposal that Democrats have warned could form the blueprint for a second Trump presidency, even as the Republican nominee has distanced himself from it. Harris and Trump will face off in their first debate Tuesday.
The page says Harris’s economic policies are aimed at “lowering the costs of everyday needs” for working- and middle-class families. They include the expansion of two tax credits, which the campaign said would benefit 100 million families: the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, for which Harris aims to include a $6,000 cut for families with newborns.
On health care, the Harris campaign does not mention support for Medicare-for-all. She has said she no longer supports it, reflecting a shift away from some of the progressive stances that marked her 2019 presidential campaign.
On her foreign policy outlook, the Harris campaign said she will ‘stand with’ the United States’ allies and ‘stand up to dictators’ while ensuring that “America, not China, wins the competition for the 21st century.” On Israel’s war in Gaza, an emotional and divisive issue for many Democratic voters, the campaign repeated her pledge to stand up for Israel’s right and ability to defend itself as well as making sure Palestinians have a right to self-determination and security.”
The Trump campaign has gone after Harris for not having a policy page on its campaign site or for taking interviews to explain what she believes, while the former president has held multiple press conferences with no limitations placed on questions from reporters.
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