‘Values Have Not Changed’: Kamala Harris Embraces Fracking After Her Admin Teed Off On Fossil Fuels

Vice President Kamala Harris suggested that she has supported fracking since 2020 during her Thursday evening interview with CNN, but the Biden-Harris administration pursued many aggressive anti-oil and gas policies starting in 2021.

Harris, who said in 2019 that there is “no question” that fracking should be banned, told CNN host Dana Bash that she disavowed that position in 2020 — a claim that one of CNN’s fact-checkers disputed after the interview — and that she does not support a ban today. However, the Biden-Harris administration took numerous actions to crack down on fracking as well as oil and gas activity writ large over the course of its tenure. (RELATED: Team Harris Swears Kamala Won’t Kill Fracking, But Will Anyone Believe Them?)

“Do you still want to ban fracking?” Bash asked Harris, who was accompanied by her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for her first sit-down interview since replacing President Joe Biden as the de facto Democratic nominee in July.

“No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking. As vice president, I did not ban fracking. As president, I will not ban fracking,” Harris responded.