Harris continues to lie about Trump and 'Project 2025'
At last week’s debate, Vice President Kamala Harris warned that Donald Trump has “a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025” that he “intends on implementing if he were elected again.” Project 2025 is the subject of an ad blitz from the Harris campaign. It also was a centerpiece of her convention address and remains a refrain in her stump speech. “I can’t believe they put that thing in writing,” she said.
Here’s the problem: Trump didn’t put it in writing; the Heritage Foundation did. It is a policy wish list dreamed up by conservative activists — some associated with Trump but many of them not — and Trump has repeatedly repudiated it. “They know it’s been disavowed,” Trump told me in an interview at Mar-a-Lago this week, but “they have ads about it because they’re lying people.”
Vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz said at the Democratic convention: “They spent a lot of time pretending they know nothing about this. But look, I coached high school football long enough to know … when somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re going to use it.” Well, then let’s look at Harris’s own radical policy playbook: the extreme left-wing policies she campaigned on when she ran for president four years ago. Call it “Project 2019.”
Unlike Project 2025, which Trump has never embraced, Harris is on record as having supported the following Project 2019 policies:...
- Banning the sale of gas-powered cars. In April 2019, Harris co-sponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act in the Senate, which would have banned the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2040. Then, during her 2019 campaign, Harris promised to implement an “accelerated model” of the act that would move the target ahead to 2035.
- A federal ban on fracking. At CNN’s September 2019 town hall on the climate crisis, Harris declared, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” She pledged to end fossil fuel leases on public lands as well as all offshore drilling, and to weaponize her Justice Department to go after oil and gas companies that have directly impacted global warming, telling the audience she will “take them to court and sue them.”
- Ending private health insurance. In 2017, she was the first Democrat to co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act, which would have abolished private health insurance and replaced it with a government-run single-payer system. In 2019, she reaffirmed that position. Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper at a January 2019 town hall whether she would “totally eliminate private insurance,” Harris said yes. “The idea is that everyone gets access to medical care, and you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval,” she told Tapper, adding: “Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on.”
- The Green New Deal. In 2019, Harris co-sponsored the radical Green New Deal. As a candidate, she unveiled her own plan to spend $10 trillion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with a goal of getting to a carbon-neutral economy by 2045. And she vowed to ram it through the Senate with a simple majority, declaring on CNN, “If they fail to act, as president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal.”
- Decriminalizing illegal border crossings. In 2019, Harris raised her hand during a Democratic debate when asked if she supported decriminalizing border crossings. In an interview that same year, she declared, “I am in favor of saying that we’re not going to treat people who are undocumented and cross the border as criminals.”
- Defunding Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Asked in 2019 if she supported abolishing ICE, Harris replied: “We’ve got to critically reexamine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing, and we need to probably think about starting from scratch.” In an ACLU questionnaire, Harris boasted that she “was one of the first Senators after President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to ICE” and promised that, as president, she would slash ICE detentions by at least 50 percent.
- Health care for illegal migrants. During her 2019 campaign, Harris came out in favor of providing taxpayer-funded health care for illegal migrants, telling CNN: “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period.” And in the ACLU questionnaire, she promised that this coverage would include gender transition surgery for migrants held in federal immigration detention.
- Decriminalizing drug possession. Asked by the ACLU, “Will you support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use?,” Harris answered yes.
There is more.
This gives you some idea of how extreme Harris's leftist agenda really is. She is trying to abandon this record now. I suspect that she has seen polls that show that a majority of voters do not support her agenda. But this agenda is so absurd that it makes you question her judgment to begin with. Who in their right mind would have such a program?
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