The Trump-Vance campaign released a statement Thursday night after Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first media interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, calling Harris a “San Francisco radical” and highlighting aspects of her background that were not discussed in the interview.
“(Harris) has said three times that her values have 'not changed' and she remains a San Francisco radical,” the campaign said.
The Trump-Vance campaign said CNN's Dana Bash failed to mention that Harris supported “eliminating bail for violent criminals and raising money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which released rioters,” that she “voted in favor of a runoff on the American Rescue Plan, which economists say would have fueled inflation,” and that she “supported closing immigration detention centers and releasing thousands of criminals into America's neighborhoods.”
“In her speech, which lasted just over 16 minutes, (Harris) did not address the country's crime crisis at all; she only spent 3 minutes 25 seconds talking about the economy and 2 minutes 36 seconds talking about immigration,” the statement said.
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After completely reversing her far-left stance in 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris raised some eyebrows when she told CNN's Dana Bash that her “values haven't changed.” (Screenshot/CNN)
In the interview, Harris said she believes Americans are ready to “turn the page” on former President Donald Trump.
She also defended her job as an appointed border official in the Biden administration, saying the job “provided many benefits.”
“The work that the president asked me to do, and that I undertook as vice president, to identify the root causes has actually produced a number of benefits, including historic investment by American companies in the region and an actual decline in the amount of immigration coming from the region since we began that work,” she said.
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Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the United Auto Workers Local 900 in Wayne, Michigan, August 8, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)
“When you look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people, I think people are ready to embark on a new path forward that is fueled by the hope and optimism that generations of Americans have been driven by. Sadly, I think over the last decade, the previous president was someone who really pushed policies in an environment that weakened our character and our strength as Americans and divided our country. And I think people are ready to move past that,” Harris said.
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Harris' most detailed plan, revealed in an interview Thursday night, included a $6,000 child tax credit, similar to one previously announced as a policy plan by the Trump-Vance campaign. (Photo by Kenny Holston Pool/Getty Images)
It was a response to what Harris would accomplish on her first day in office, though Bash later had to press her for details.
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Harris' most detailed plan, revealed in an interview Thursday night, included a $6,000 child tax credit and a $25,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers, similar to those previously announced as policy plans by the Trump-Vance campaign.
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