Kamala Harris U-turns on plastic straw ban
By: The Telegraph
Another FLIP
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Kamala Harris has said she no longer wants a ban on plastic straws in a policy U-turn.
In 2019, the Democrat presidential nominee had told a CNN town hall meeting: "We do need to ban the plastic straws." But her campaign has now said she has changed her mind and "doesn't support banning plastic straws".
"She cast the tie-breaking vote on the most consequential legislation to combat climate change and create clean energy jobs in history, and as president, she is going to be focused on expanding on that progress," a Harris campaign official told Axios.
"She joked even then about how crappy paper straws are and the need to come up with better eco-friendly alternatives."
The move may be intended to prevent further attacks from the Donald Trump campaign, which has previously highlighted the policy.
Jason Miller, a senior adviser in the Trump campaign, told NBC in July: "Kamala Harris had a long, liberal, radical record in California well before she even became vice-president. I mean, heck, she wants to get rid of plastic straws, for goodness' sake."
A number of US cities have already banned single-use plastic straws, including Seattle, Washington DC, and Malibu. They have also been banned in the UK and in parts of the EU.
Ms Harris has been criticised for changing her position on a number of key issues since being nominated.
Her team has said - via anonymous aides - that she no longer supports Medicare for All or mandatory gun buy-back programmes, both of which she called for during her 2020 Democratic primary campaign.
Last month, Ms Harris also revealed that she no longer wants to ban fracking, another position she held during the 2020 primary race.
The change is likely to increase her chances of winning the swing state of Pennsylvania, a hotbed for oil and gas drilling, and she told CNN she now believed it was possible to "grow and increase a thriving clean-energy economy without banning fracking".
Ms Harris insisted during the interview that her "values have not changed", even if some of her policy ideas have.
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She changes her mind via press release.... Never talks about it. Never explains it and never deigns to answer questions from the media about it. As a Democrat, she's above providing reasons to voters.
OMG-- please say it ain't so!
Plastic straws?
That is horrible-- heck its almost as serious as the entire brouhaha about putting Tampon dispensers in . . . the boys' bathrooms!
If this is true (and let's all pray that its not)-- our entire civilization will be threatened!
You're ignoring the point (her flip-floppiness).
But she keeps saying she has not changed any of her policies. I wonder why our leftist friends are not freaking out over that like they do about somebody else lying.
California. The land where drugs are legal but you have to buy plastic straws in a back alley deal.
Like a lot of other politicians on both sides of the aisle, Harris will say just about anything so long as it scores points with the media and her voter base and potentially increases her chances of winning. Of course, what happens the day after they get elected is another thing all together.
This will have a huge impact with all those single issue plastic straw voters. Lol.
Fox News said straws make men gay.
These guys are literally grasping at straws now.
Evolving. Her viewpoints are maturing and evolving - unburdened by what has been.
Because plastic straws determined every election cycle since 1930 /s