Vice President Harris Reverses Course On Electric Vehicle Mandate Despite Admin Pushing EVs For Half Of Car Sales By 2030

Over the past three and a half years, the Biden-Harris administration has prioritized forcing car manufacturers to produce electric vehicles. However, Vice President Kamala Harris, via a statement from campaign aides, has seemingly retracted her support for an electric vehicle mandate, arguing that she no longer supports the policy despite the administration's current plan to mandate half of all vehicles sold by 2030 be EVs.

In a fact check posted by the campaign in response to Sen. JD Vance's (R-OH) trip to Big Rapids, Michigan, the Democrat campaign claims that Harris "does not support an electric vehicle mandate." The Harris team went on to attack President Trump and Sen. Vance by saying that they have a "long history of abandoning workers to line the pockets of their ultra-wealthy buddies from Silicon Valley to Mar-a-Lago."

Despite the Harris campaign's attempts to malign the Trump-Vance ticket, the revelation is yet another instance of the vice president flip-flopping on a key issue central to Biden-Harris administration policy over the past few years. "Kamala's handlers have done another walk back, now claiming that she doesn't support electric vehicle mandates," the Trump campaign wrote on X. "This one is particularly interesting because the government that she is currently working for is trying to convert half of gas cars to electric by 2030."

Vice President Harris has rarely voiced her own reversals in her speeches leaving her aides to do the talking for her in carefully crafted written statements. Since taking over the Democrat ticket over a month ago, Harris has reversed herself on several issues including reversing her position on banning fracking, reversing her support for universal healthcare, and changing her mind on a federal gun buyback program.

The campaign has even said Harris now supports building the wall on the US-Mexico border. In her speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Vice President Harris said she would sign the Senate border bill that failed to pass through Congress earlier this year. The legislation, negotiated by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), Sen. Kristen Sinema (I-AZ), and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), would spend $650 million on border wall construction, far from the $18 billion requested by President Trump in 2018.

Vice President Harris has shown herself to be unprincipled and willing to take on policies that she previously opposed if it means winning over voters. Given the lack of interviews with the media and her refusal to take questions from the press, the American people are left guessing at what she believes.

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