{"id":2306797,"date":"2024-07-23T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-harris-is-at-risk-of-losing-pennsylvania-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:49:37","slug":"why-harris-is-at-risk-of-losing-pennsylvania-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-harris-is-at-risk-of-losing-pennsylvania-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Harris is at risk of losing Pennsylvania &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-harris-is-at-risk-of-losing-pennsylvania-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2306797&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary discusses how Vice \u2062President Kamala Harris&#8217;s green \u2064positions,\u200c such as supporting a ban \u200con fracking and the \u200bGreen New Deal, could potentially\u200b cost her support in Pennsylvania as she faces the possibility \u2064of becoming the Democratic presidential \u2063nominee. \u200dDespite\u2063 Harris aligning her \u200dpositions with President\u2062 Joe Biden&#8217;s after becoming his running mate, the article suggests that \u2062she may be vulnerable to attacks on her previous stance. The piece includes quotes from Donald Trump Jr.\u2062 criticizing Harris&#8217;s positions on\u2064 fracking and\u2064 expert opinions that suggest Harris could face more \u2062scrutiny on this issue than Biden. It also highlights Harris&#8217;s more ambitious\u200c environmental platform compared\u2062 to Biden&#8217;s, which \u2064includes\u200d creating a \u2064clean energy economy by 2045 and requiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/electric-cars-are-not-zero-emission-vehicles\/\" title=\"Electric Cars Are Not \u201cZero-Emission Vehicles\u201d\">emission-free<\/a>\u200d vehicles by 2035.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Why Harris is at risk of losing Pennsylvania<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1710349\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo;s green positions could cost her Pennsylvania in November, now that she is on track to be the Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>During her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris called for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cnnpolitics\/status\/1169384141923606528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a ban on fracking<\/a>&nbsp;and was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-resolution\/59\/cosponsors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of the original sponsors of the Green New Deal resolution<\/a>. While she altered her position to match President Joe Biden&rsquo;s after becoming his running mate, untethering from him could put her at risk of renewed attacks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vice President Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two on Monday, July 22, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. (Erin Schaff\/The New York Times via AP, Pool)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Kamala Harris is even more extreme than Joe Biden &ndash; She wants to ban fracking and kill countless jobs in states like PA for American workers,&rdquo; Donald Trump Jr. said in a post on X, responding to a 2020 primary town hall in which Harris said there was &ldquo;no question&rdquo; she was in favor of banning fracking.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris is even more extreme than Joe Biden &ndash; She wants to ban fracking and kill countless jobs in states like PA for American workers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZYzQdB2z7J\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZYzQdB2z7J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1815422564040057293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>&ldquo;<\/strong>I think that Harris will be more open to attacks on fracking than Biden, given her rhetoric and policy positions before she became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a>,&rdquo; Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion Director Christopher P. Borick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/23\/fracking-gop-harris-trump-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> <em>Axios<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracyinaction.us\/2020\/harris\/harrispolicy090419climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harris&rsquo;s 2019 platform<\/a>&nbsp;was far more ambitious than Biden&rsquo;s in regard to the environment, aiming to create a clean energy economy by 2045 and requiring all vehicles to be emission-free by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Such green policies may come back to bite her in November, especially in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-democrat-plans-to-get-abortion-as-reproductive-care-comes-front-and-center-in-swing-state\/\" title=\"Arizona Democrat aims for abortion access amidst reproductive rights debate in pivotal state\">decisive swing state<\/a> of Pennsylvania, which is second to Texas in producing natural gas. Southwestern Pennsylvania, where the industry is concentrated, went decisively to then-President Donald Trump in 2020 &mdash; Biden only won the state due to the Democratic strongholds of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>To take the state, Harris will need an equal, if not greater, turnout among the urban bastions.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden was able to insulate himself from Republican attacks against the Green New Deal, Harris&rsquo;s past sponsorship of the deal will allow the Trump campaign to link her to its more unpopular elements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&ldquo;<\/strong>Kamala was a proud supporter of the Green New Scam and has promised to ban fracking and kill good-paying energy jobs in Pennsylvania and across the heartland,&rdquo; Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt told <em>Axios<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After Biden announced he was stepping down as the Democratic nominee on Sunday, Harris has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3095252\/vice-president-harris-sufficient-support-delegates-nominee-for-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>earned<\/a> enough delegate support to win the nomination at next month&rsquo;s Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1710349\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1710349\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summary discusses how Vice \u2062President Kamala Harris&#8217;s green \u2064positions,\u200c such as supporting a ban \u200con fracking and the \u200bGreen New Deal, could potentially\u200b cost her support in Pennsylvania as she faces the possibility \u2064of becoming the Democratic presidential \u2063nominee. \u200dDespite\u2063 Harris aligning her \u200dpositions with President\u2062 Joe Biden&#8217;s after becoming his running mate, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2306798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24204694458543.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3728,4021,5836,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2306797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-election","tag-harris","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24204694458543.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}