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Vice President Kamala Harris finally agreed to a sit-down interview more than 35 days after essentially being anointed as the Democratic Party presidential candidate by Joe Biden, but even within the friendly confines of CNN, she still struggled with her responses.

Conservative activists and media outlets took to X to comment specifically on a clip from host Dana Bash’s interview with Harris, where the VP discussed the reasons behind her evolving policy positions since assuming the Democratic presidential nomination.

In the clip of the interview, which will air Thursday night on CNN, anchor Dana Bash asked, “Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you’ve made? … Is it because you have more experience now, and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you’re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?”

“Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris admitted. “You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I’ve worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act.”

“Gobbledygook,” conservative commentator Steve Guest wrote on the X platform. “The definition of a deadline is ‘the latest time or date by which something should be completed’.”

Noah Rothman, senior writer at the National Review, called her response “rambling.”

Charles C. W. Cooke, a British-American journalist, described the clip as an “instant classic.”

“Undefeated. She’s still got it—even as the nominee,” he quipped.

The X account for The Blaze referred to the comment as “word salad,” which is a term Harris critics often use to describe her often confusing responses to questions.

Harris continued, “We have set goals for the United States of America and, by extension, the globe, around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as an example.”

“That value has not changed. My value around what we need to do to secure our border. That value is not changed,” she said.

Harris was also asked when she changed her mind about fracking as a way to get fossil fuels after strongly supporting a ban through the Green New Deal.

Bash asked Harris: “In 2019 you said, quote: ‘There is no question. I’m in favor of banning fracking.’ Fracking, as you know, is a pretty big issue, particularly in your must-win state of Pennsylvania. Do you still want to ban fracking?”

Harris replied: “No. And I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking as vice president, I did not ban fracking. As president I will not ban fracking.”

Bash pressed the question again: “In 2019, I believe in a town hall, you were asked, would you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office and you said: ‘There’s no question. I’m in favor of banning fracking, so yes.’”

Harris repeated that her stance “changed in that campaign in 2020” and that she “made that very” clear”—remaining in support of fracking in 2024.

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale called out VHarris for saying that she made it “clear” as early as 2020 that she would “not ban fracking as vice president.”

“The fact check bottom line is that she did not actually make clear at a 2020 debate that she had changed her previous support for a fracking ban. So let me take you through this kind of saga so here’s what she said at a CNN climate town hall in 2019 on the subject of a fracking ban,” Dale said.

Dale and CNN then aired a clip of Harris from 2019, where she said “there was no question” she was “in favor of banning fracking.”

Dale added: “So, she ended her 2020 presidential run in December 2019. The only debate she participated in in 2020 was the general election debate with then-Vice President Mike Pence. And I went over the transcript of that debate tonight. Nowhere in there does she make clear that she had abandoned her previous support for a fracking ban; rather, she repeated that Joe Biden, the head of the democratic ticket at the time, would himself not ban fracking.”

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