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4 September 2024

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump: Who’s Really Flip-Flopping?

Jacob Heilbrunn

Who’s flip-flopping? Kamala Harris, who explained on CNN last night that she’s not opposed to fracking? Or Donald Trump, who seemed to suggest that he’ll vote to support abortion rights in Florida?

Harris isn’t catching much flak for her shape-shifting, other than a few feeble questions from Dana Bash on Thursday evening. Still, Trump is stirring outrage among certain precincts of the right that are bemoaning his lack of avidity for crushing what’s left of abortion rights. “I’m going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,” he said about Amendment 4.

His campaign then unsaid it. Karoline Leavitt, his press secretary, said, “President Trump has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida, he simply said that he believes six weeks is too short.” Say what? In trying to walk back his remark, the Trump team underscored that the issue of abortion continues to give his campaign fits.

Harris, by contrast, enjoyed a no-harm, no-foul session during an interview with CNN. But she didn’t need to hit a grand slam. What she needed to do was to avoid a blunder, which she did. Essentially, the interview was batting practice for the big game—her debate with Trump on September 10, when the two will face off for the first and probably only time.

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