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Voters in Crucial Swing State PA Are Not Buying Harris’s Flip on Fracking
Voters in battleground Pennsylvania aren’t buying Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s promise to not ban fracking, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The last time Harris ran for president, in 2019, she was a vocal advocate of outlawing the practice, saying, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking” during a CNN town hall. As a senator, she also sponsored the Green New Deal, which includes a ban on fracking.
Harris’s new campaign, without explaining the candidate’s shift in thinking, said the vice president will not ban fracking, but swing-state Pennsylvania voters—whose livelihoods largely rely on the state’s fossil energy industry—aren’t buying her change of heart.
Emanuel Paris, a Pennsylvania resident with a sustainability degree whose family owns a 400-employee construction firm, told the Post he will be voting for former president Donald Trump this November, calling Harris’s fracking flip-flip a “grab for votes.”
“It’s not like we can just shut off everything else and switch to solar and wind,” Paris told the Post. He also condemned numerous Biden-Harris administration policies he believes are hampering growth in the local energy sector, such as permit restrictions and unmanageable regulations.
