Michael Tyler, communications director for the Harris-Waltz campaign, refused to back down from Vice President Kamala Harris' previous support for funding sex-reassignment surgery for illegal immigrants and cutting funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Harris in 2019 questionnaire In a survey by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), she said she supports abolishing immigration detention centers, ending the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, and using taxpayer money to pay for gender reassignment surgery for illegal immigrants. Tyler told ABC News Live that previous reporting about the survey was a “total distraction” from the current concerns of the American public.
“[The questionnaire] “In 2019, Ms. Harris stated her support for cutting funding for ICE and using taxpayer money to pay for gender reassignment surgery for immigrants in custody. Does the vice president still support those positions and do we expect him to speak out about them tonight?” ABC News host Diane Macedo asked.
“Look, I think these old surveys are a total distraction from the issue that's right in front of us, which is what the vice president and, frankly, the American people actually want,” Tyler said. “What the American people are concerned about and what they're asking for is who's going to solve border security, and there's a very clear choice when it comes to that issue.”
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In her questionnaire, Harris touted her work lobbying the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide sex-reassignment surgery to inmates, calling the procedure a “medical necessity.” (Related: 'It's not the same thing': ABC News host hits back at Democrat who claims Harris is 'in the media a lot')
“Transitional care is medically necessary, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential health care to provide transitional care,” Harris wrote.
The vice president previously defended the California Department of Corrections' efforts to block such surgeries while he was California's attorney general. According to To CNN.
Harris changed some of her key policy positions on immigration, fracking and policing during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal as a U.S. senator and supported abolishing the filibuster to pass legislation. said During a 2019 town hall meeting, she said there was “no question” that she supported a ban on fracking, but then told CNN's Dana Bash on August 29 that she wouldn't ban fracking if elected president, CNN reported.
Harris added: Grant During the 2020 election campaign, he called for health insurance coverage for illegal immigrants, likened ICE to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and called for its abolition in 2018. President Joe Biden Appointed In March 2021, she called on the vice president to address the “root causes” of the southern border crisis in Northern Triangle countries and Mexico, but she has reportedly only visited the border once and never met with former Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott during his tenure.
Harris has since sought to cast herself as a tough border candidate, arguing in several campaign ads that she would send more Border Patrol agents to the border to crack down on illegal immigration.
According to MSNBC, Harris supported the movement to defund police, which arose in the wake of the death of George Floyd in 2020, and said it was “wrong and outdated” to suggest that more police are the solution to crime. Interview From 2020. Biden-Harris campaign I walked back She voiced her support for the cause, saying she opposes cuts to the police budget during the 2020 general election.
Though Harris is currently attempting to appeal to the political center, she was rated the second most liberal senator in the 116th Congress, which ran from January 3, 2019 to January 3, 2021, after Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders.
Harris co-signed Sanders' “Medicare for All” bill, which would have eliminated private health insurance and created a single-payer system in which the federal government would be the sole provider of health insurance. Harris subsequently introduced her own “Medicare for All” bill that would allow individuals to keep their private health insurance.
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