More than a month after President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first sit-down interview. It was a joint interview with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The overarching issue: Harris’ changing positions on multiple issues from the time she first ran for the White House in 2019 to now.
Harris tried to diffuse charges of flip-flopping by saying her values remain the same.Â
“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” she told CNN.Â
On illegal immigration, she says she no longer thinks the border should be decriminalized.
CNN’s Dana Bash asked her, “During the Biden-Harris administration, there were record numbers of illegal border crossings. Why did the Biden administration wait 3.5 years to implement sweeping asylum restrictions?”Â
Harris responded, “Well, first of all, the root causes work that I did as vice president, that I was asked to do by the president, has actually resulted in a number of benefits including historic investments by American businesses in that region. The number of immigrants coming from that region has actually reduced since we began that work.”
Harris also defended
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