Harris asked about shifting positions in CNN interview: ‘My values have not changed’

Vice President Harris argued that her “values have not changed” in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash in which she was asked about shifts in her policy positions when it comes to climate and border issues.

Harris’s remarks came in a clip of the interview, which is set to air in full Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT.

When it came to the issue of changing views on policy, Bash asked Harris how voters should look at where the vice president stands and whether what she’s portraying now is what Americans should expect if she serves in the White House.

“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris said.

Harris previously supported the progressive Green New Deal climate agenda and most notably supported a ban on fracking. After she launched her 2024 presidential bid, however, her campaign told The Hill she would no longer seek such a ban.

“You mention the Green New Deal — I have always believed, and I have 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 times. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act,” she said. “That value has not changed.”

She also cited her work as California attorney general when discussing border issues, touting the prosecution of transnational criminal organizations during that tenure.

Harris has come under criticism for what some say are shifting stances on a variety of policy issues, particularly dating back to her 2019 Democratic primary run.

“My values have around what we need to do to secure our border, that value has not changed,” Harris said on Thursday.

Thursday marks the first interview Harris has done since becoming the Democrats’ nominee for president. She and Walz did the interview in Georgia, where they were campaigning in the battleground state.