{"id":2334112,"date":"2024-08-30T05:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-supporters-unbothered-by-policy-flip-flops-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T05:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T09:13:25","slug":"harris-supporters-unbothered-by-policy-flip-flops-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-supporters-unbothered-by-policy-flip-flops-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris supporters unbothered by policy &#8216;flip-flops&#8217; &#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\">18<\/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%2Fharris-supporters-unbothered-by-policy-flip-flops-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=2334112&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>Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia have expressed their \u200cindifference towards her recent shifts in policy positions, seeing them as a sign of personal growth rather than inconsistency.\u2063 During a campaign event in Savannah, they \u200carticulated their views on her \u200bevolving stance on various issues, including Medicare for All, the Green New Deal,\u2062 and gun control. Many voters, such as Savannah\u200d resident Kai Williams, view the changes\u200b as a natural progression of understanding \u200crather than &#8220;flip-flopping.&#8221; They believe Harris&#8217;s ability to listen \u200dto the public and adapt her views is a strength. Additionally, Chris Finney, an employee at Gulfstream Aerospace, suggested that her time in office has enhanced her perspectives, making\u2063 it reasonable\u2063 for her to evolve \u2064her opinions. attendees at the\u2064 event seemed to appreciate her \u200bwillingness to adjust her\u200c stance based\u200d on new \u2062information and public sentiment.  <\/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\">Harris supporters in Georgia unconcerned about policy &lsquo;flip-flops&rsquo;<\/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_1741884\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>SAVANNAH, Georgia &mdash; <\/strong>Voters who planned to vote for Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> in November are not bothered by her recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>policy<\/a> &ldquo;flip-flops,&rdquo; viewing it as personal growth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Harris has faced criticism over her shifting support over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/medicare-for-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medicare for All<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/green-new-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Green New Deal<\/a>,&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hardly-any-canadians-have-turned-in-their-now-outlawed-firearms-to-the-government\/\" title=\"Hardly Any Canadians Have Turned In Their Now-Outlawed Firearms To The Government\">mandatory gun buyback program<\/a><\/a>, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fracking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fracking ban<\/a>, expanding the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a>, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3106367\/harris-reverses-support-federal-job-guarantee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/six-policies-harris-has-pivoted-on-since-ascending-to-top-of-democratic-ticket-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Six policies Harris has pivoted on since ascending to top of Democratic ticket - Washington Examiner\">federal job guarantee<\/a><\/a> since she became the Democratic nominee. <\/p>\n<p>However, attendees at Harris&rsquo;s speech inside the Enmarket Arena outside downtown Savannah on Thursday explained to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that the changes in policy her campaign has divulged did not concern them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anna Giaritelli \/ Washington Examiner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kai Williams, born and raised in Savannah, said it was natural for any person, even Harris, to have evolved in her views on public policy issues.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No, not really concerned,&rdquo; said Williams in an interview with the <em>Washington Examiner. <\/em>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s kind of human to have a different opinion as you dig deeper into things or learn more about them. So I wouldn&rsquo;t necessarily call it flip-flopping. I would call it learning more, advancing to another level, as far as her knowledge of situations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Married couple Vicky and Jon Haley of Daytona Beach, Florida, drove 230 miles to be in Savannah for Harris&rsquo;s visit, the first time that a nominated presidential candidate from either party has visited the Hostess City since the 1990s, according to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Vicky characterized changes in Harris&rsquo;s views as the result of her willingness to &ldquo;listen to&rdquo; the public and &ldquo;her adjusting to the American people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kamala Harris is in government, and she hears a lot more things than we do as citizens,&rdquo; said Jon Haley. &ldquo;And I think that they can change, change their mind.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anna Giaritelli \/ Washington Examiner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chris Finney, who works for the city&rsquo;s largest employer, Gulfstream Aerospace, said he believed Harris had evolved in her views based on her time in the White House over the past 3 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That was when she first ran and didn&rsquo;t have a long campaign. So she&rsquo;s been in office four years as <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>. You get to see a whole lot more as vice president that she didn&rsquo;t get to see before that to change her opinion,&rdquo; said Finney, 64. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have a problem with somebody just evolving to a different opinion. If you go Wednesday and say one thing and go Friday and say something totally different, then then I have a problem with that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Finney noted that former President Barack Obama softened his views on gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Harris did her first media interview since starting her campaign 40 days ago on Thursday and offered an explanation for the policy shifts for the first time, confirming voters&rsquo; beliefs that her time as vice president had informed her new understanding of certain issues.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My values have not changed. So that is the reality of it. And four years of being vice president, I&rsquo;ll tell you, one of the aspects, to your point, is traveling the country extensively,&rdquo; Harris said. &ldquo;I believe it is important to build consensus, and it is important to find a common place of understanding of where we can actually solve problems.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" title><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Miles Pearlman, a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, said his concern over Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump led him to show up today to support Harris.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;From past errors and mistakes that Trump has made, it&rsquo;s clear that I don&rsquo;t want him in the office again,&rdquo; said Pearlman, 19. &ldquo;Obviously, the support of Obama and Biden &mdash; she seems like a great choice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><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_1741884\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1741884\"}});<\/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>Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia are not worried about her recent changes in policy, interpreting them as signs of personal development. Despite facing backlash for her evolving stances on issues like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, a mandatory gun buyback program, a fracking ban, expanding the Supreme Court, and a federal job guarantee since becoming the Democratic nominee, attendees at her speech in Savannah expressed that these shifts did not concern them. <\/p>\n<p>Kai Williams from Savannah remarked that it is natural for anyone to evolve their views on public policy as they gain more knowledge. He stated that he sees Harris&#8217;s changes not as flip-flopping but rather as an indication of growth and deeper understanding. Vicky and Jon Haley traveled 230 miles from Daytona Beach to attend Harris&#8217;s event\u2014the first visit by a nominated presidential candidate to Savannah since the 1990s\u2014and Vicky noted that Harris\u2019s adjustments reflect her willingness to listen to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Finney, an employee at Gulfstream Aerospace, suggested that Harris\u2019s views have matured during her time in office over the past three and a half years. He expressed no issue with someone evolving their opinions over time but would be concerned if there were drastic changes within short periods. Finney also referenced former President Barack Obama\u2019s changing stance on gay marriage as an example of this evolution.<\/p>\n<p>In her first media interview since launching her campaign 40 days ago, Harris addressed these policy shifts by stating that while she has gained new insights during her vice presidency through extensive travel across the country, her core values remain unchanged. She emphasized the importance of building consensus and finding common ground to solve problems.<\/p>\n<p>Miles Pearlman, a student at SCAD who attended to support Harris due to concerns about Donald Trump\u2019s past actions while in office said he believes she is aligned with Obama and Biden&#8217;s support and seems like an excellent choice for voters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2334113,"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\/08\/harris-crowd-savannah.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4248,4021,4326,5221,32076],"class_list":["post-2334112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-flip-flops","tag-harris","tag-policy","tag-supporters","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/harris-crowd-savannah.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334112","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\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}