{"id":12752,"date":"2024-09-02T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=12752"},"modified":"2024-09-02T17:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:53:44","slug":"fact-checking-kamala-harriss-first-campaign-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/fact-checking-kamala-harriss-first-campaign-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checking Kamala Harris\u2019s first campaign interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has given her first interview since entering the race – a joint conversation alongside running mate Tim Walz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC Verify has looked into claims she made in the CNN interview about fracking, the Biden administration\u2019s record on child tax poverty and investment in clean-energy jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Harris\u2019s position on fracking?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CLAIM:<\/strong> In Thursday\u2019s interview, Ms Harris said she would not ban fracking and maintained that she has \u201cnot changed that position\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VERDICT: <\/strong>This needs context and could be misleading as Ms Harris has changed her public position on fracking. In 2019, she said she was \u201cin favour of banning fracking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following year, in the 2020 vice presidential debate<\/a> when she was on the Biden ticket, Ms Harris said \u201cJoe Biden will not end fracking\u201d and: \u201cI will repeat, and the American people know, that Joe Biden will not ban fracking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the CNN interview on Thursday she was pressed on her 2019 statement, and Ms Harris responded: \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the debate, Ms Harris was referring to President Joe Biden\u2019s policy plans. She did not state whether her own views at the time differed from this position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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