Camila Thorndike, a top Harris-Walz campaign climate adviser, abruptly walked back her recent comments stating that Vice President Kamala Harris would be hostile to future oil and gas drilling as president—effectively reversing her reversal of the candidate’s position.
In a statement Monday, Thorndike lamented that she wasn’t clear enough when she told Politico last week that Harris is not “promoting expansion” of oil drilling and suggested Harris was not fond of a provision in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act mandating fossil fuel leases. Thorndike serves as Harris’s “climate engagement director.”
“I didn’t explain myself clearly here,” Thorndike said Monday. “Contrary to Trump’s claims, the VP has not banned fracking, doesn’t support banning fracking, and in fact cast the tie-breaking vote on the biggest pro-climate law ever, which, yes, opened new fracking leases. People know that’s her position.”
So Harris's new position in Oct is she now opposes fracking and no longer supports her position in July when she changed her position to support fracking which was subsequently a change in her prior, prior position of June which was to oppose fracking?
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It remains unclear how Thorndike’s new statement clarifies her comments from last week. Thorndike did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Free Beacon. […]
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So she’s against fracking Ms. Thorndike, isn’t she.