Headline Roundup • July 22nd, 2024
Where Does Kamala Harris Stand on Policy Issues?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
With President Joe Biden exiting the 2024 presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris may be the Democratic Party's next nominee. Where does she stand on policy issues?
Key Details: While Harris might not drastically shift the direction of Biden's agenda, her views and ideology during her term as vice president have not always been clearly defined. For example, while Biden wants to restore Roe v. Wade, Harris has gone further and wants federal abortion protections that would go beyond Roe v. Wade, limiting state restrictions. While Biden proposed the Build Back Better bill that became a $369 billion climate law, he did not support banning fracking or the entire Green New Deal. As a senator, Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal and was in favor of banning fracking.
How the Media Covered it: The Washington Examiner (Lean Right bias) noted that while Harris may take more centrist positions in a campaign for president, Republican attacks could center around her past, more liberal, positions. Politico (Lean Left bias) suggested that Harris' record as a California attorney general, U.S. senator, and vice president still provides limited clues about how she might govern as president.
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Ahead of a lunch meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in March, JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon didnāt know what to expect.
Dimon wasnāt sure of her political agenda when it came to the economy and business. His previous interactions with Harris had been limited, though the pair had a testy back-and-forth nearly a decade earlier while she was California attorney general during the mortgage foreclosure crisis.
He came away from the White House meeting thinking that Harris had been reasonable and open to improving how government and corporations can work together, according...
President Joe Bidenās decision to abandon his reelection bid and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris means that Harris could soon become the standard-bearer for the Democratic Partyās biggest priorities ā including abortion rights, climate change and student debt relief.
Her track record as a California attorney general, a U.S. senator and Bidenās No. 2 provides only so many clues about how she might lead.
The former prosecutor often struggled to carve out a niche between centrists and skeptical progressives during her brief presidential run five years ago, proposing a multitrillion-dollar climate agenda and endorsing...
Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed liberal positions on climate and energy before joining the Democratic ticket with President Joe Biden in 2020, stances that will now receive much greater scrutiny as she pursues the presidency with Bidenās endorsement.
While her stances on energy have closely aligned with Biden during their first term, her past record on fossil fuels and climate is to the left of Bidenās positioning and could serve as a hurdle to wooing fossil fuel-friendly swing states that could determine the November elections.
During her 2019 presidential run, Harris called for a ban...
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