Staff Reports
The Harris campaign has stumbled yet again into the realm of incoherence, this time pulling off a particularly spectacular flip-flop on electric vehicles that could rival a gymnast in the Olympics. In a bewildering twist, Vice President Kamala Harris has decided that while her administration is pushing to convert a majority of cars to electric by 2030, she somehow doesn’t endorse electric vehicle mandates. This would be amusing if it weren’t so patently absurd.
Her campaign’s recent announcement comes on the heels of a flurry of confusion surrounding their policies. An email resurfaced from the Harris-Walz campaign where a staffer claimed that Harris has never supported an electric vehicle mandate. What happened to the rhetoric about saving the planet and getting everyone behind electric cars? It seems that as with too many of their policies, the Biden administration’s playbook is as slippery as a greased pig.
Just in case anyone missed the memo, the Biden EPA issued new regulations last year that would require manufacturers to ensure at least 54 percent of all new vehicles sold be electric by 2030. That sounds extremely “mandate-ish” for someone who now claims she doesn’t support such measures. The catch here is that while her team scrambles to clarify her position, the truth is blatantly clear: the Biden-Harris administration is dead set on shoving electric vehicles down the throats of every American driver.
Additionally, let’s take a stroll down memory lane. When Harris was a senator from California, she cosponsored the Zero-Emissions Vehicle Act of 2019, which included requirements targeting car manufacturers to produce only zero-emission vehicles by 2040. Does anyone else see the contradiction? Here’s a Vice President who previously championed stricter environmental measures suddenly becoming the poster girl for “whatever you say, I didn’t mean it.”
Harris Campaign Flip-Flops on Yet Another Major Issue https://t.co/22KbxWm3F3
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The broader implications of such whimsical policy shifts paint a picture of an administration rife with confusion and policy confusion. Sure, funding for a fleet of electric vehicle charging stations was supposed to ease concerns, but after pouring $7 billion into the endeavor, there have been a grand total of seven charging stations completed. This isn’t so much an infrastructure plan as it is a bad punchline in a stand-up routine—everyone’s laughing but no one is prepared to drive an electric car anytime soon.
The Harris campaign isn’t just stalling on electric vehicles; their record seems to be one of abandoning key progressive stances when they become politically inconvenient. From border policies to fracking, she seems to be undertaking a careful choreography of political positions that might leave seasoned politicians dizzy. At this rate, the only thing constant about Harris’s positions is their uncanny ability to shift suddenly based on what polls tell them today. This chaotic dance stands in stark contrast to the steadfast principles of conservative values, illustrating a clear divide between the two camps.
