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While the vice president played word games to salvage support among auto workers, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton (R) brought receipts to prove, “She’ll say anything to get elected.”

Demonstrably divisive Democrats have constantly found their pandering to demographics backing them into corners from which they’d rather not defend. Instead, as Vice President Kamala Harris recently tried during a rally in Flint, Michigan, denials bled into promises like how she would “never tell you what kind of car you have to drive.”

The trouble with such a claim was that the, after she had already announced her failed bid for the White House during the 2020 presidential election, Harris had been the chief co-sponsor of a bill that would have effectively removed gasoline-powered vehicles from the market.

“Kamala Harris is lying,” asserted Cotton sharing a screenshot of the legislation in question. “Here is her bill to ban all gas cars. She made it a top priority in the Senate, being the number one sponsor. She’ll say anything to get elected.”

The senator’s reaction came in reply to Harris’ claim during the Friday rally that, “Let us be clear, contrary to what my opponent it suggesting, I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive. But here’s what I will do. I will invest in communities like Flint. Flint, which helped build the auto industry and the [United Auto Workers labor union].”

Introduced May 15, 2019 by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley (D), the bill to amend the Clean Air Act was dubbed the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019 aimed at requiring 100% of vehicle manufacturers’ fleets be zero-emission by 2040 in order to qualify for credits.

In other words, Harris hadn’t sought to explicitly ban gas-guzzlers from the road. Instead, through the public-private partnership of the federal government and major corporations, she aimed at incentivizing the auto industry to gradually comply with the radical green agenda.

Cotton’s callout wasn’t even the only piece of evidence to counter the vice president’s claims as, despite her protestations, the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency had already utilized regulatory overreach to finalize emission standards for vehicles that were deemed “entirely unachievable” by the American Trucking Associations.

ATA president and CEO Chris Spear had said in March, “We oppose the emission standards for heavy-duty trucks announced today by EPA. The post-2030 targets remain entirely unachievable given the current state of zero-emission technology, the lack of charging infrastructure & restrictions on the power grid.”

“Given the wide range of operations required of our industry to keep the economy running, a successful emission regulation must be technology neutral and cannot be one-size-fits-all. Any regulation that fails to account for the operation realities of trucking will set the industry and America’s supply chain up for failure.”

Of course, as the globalist vice president was vying to complete her coup that saw her nominated without winning a single electoral vote in back-to-back party primaries, few were surprised by the ready fact-check against the same administration regulating everything from stoves to water heaters.

Kevin Haggerty
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