Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris told a town hall in Pennsylvania on Wednesday her administration would be different from that of President Joe Biden’s, as Republican Donald Trump campaigned in Georgia, another battleground state.
Harris’s attempt to distance herself from Biden comes as several polls show the president is a drag on her candidacy and that voters are eager for a new direction with less than two weeks to go until the Nov. 5 election.
Harris has mostly brushed off questions on the campaign trail over how – and to what extent – she would break from Biden on policy.
“My administration will not be a continuation of the Biden administration,” Harris said during a televised CNN town hall. “I bring to this role my own ideas and my own experience. I represent a new generation of leadership on a number of issues and believe that we have to actually take new approaches.”
Harris’s town hall in Chester Township was an attempt to persuade the dwindling number of undecided voters to support her in a closely divided race where even a small percentage of votes could be critical.
Fielding several questions from attendees, Harris vowed to tackle high grocery prices, said it was time to end the war in the Middle East and called Trump a fascist and “danger to the well-being and safety of America.”
The vice president also tackled questions on her changing position on policies such as fracking, saying she does not believe in having “pride associated with a position” when the important thing is to build consensus on issues.
Harris has repeatedly said she wouldn’t ban fracking if elected president, a reversal of her position during her first presidential run in 2019.
Asked if she was in favor of expanding the Supreme Court to 12 justices from the current nine, Harris said: “I do believe that there should be some kind of reform of the court, and we can study what that actually looks like.”
(Reuters)