Days after President Joe Biden quit the presidential race, some of the most high-profile names in the U.S. climate movement gathered for an online fundraiser in support of Vice President Kamala Harris’s fledgling campaign, where they highlighted Harris’s past far-left positions.
The event—which organizers said raised more than $100,000 for the Harris campaign—signals that powerful climate NGOs, which pull in millions of dollars in donations every year, are ready to throw their full weight of support behind the sitting vice president. During the July 25 fundraiser, the Washington Free Beacon learned, speakers endorsed Harris thanks in large part to her support for the trillion-dollar Green New Deal and green energy subsidies, and her opposition to fossil fuel fracking.
The fundraiser was held even as the Harris campaign sought to walk back many of the policies highlighted by the speakers and run closer to the center on energy issues. The campaign, for example, said Harris no longer supports banning fracking or certain provisions in the Green New Deal. The vice president is giving a high-profile speech next week in Pennsylvania, the second-largest natural gas-producing state in the country.
According to a readout of the event obtained by the Free Beacon, Leah Stokes, a cohost of the fundraiser and a consultant with climate firm Rewiring America, began the call by noting that Harris established an environmental crimes unit as San Francisco district attorney and, as vice president, oversaw funding for electric school buses, and spearheaded plans to clean lead pipes. She lamented that environmental activist and actress Jane Fonda, former State Department climate czar John Kerry, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg couldn’t make the call. […]
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