CNN Panel GANGS UP On Host After She Lies For Kamala: 'No Way!'
CNN anchor Abby Phillip faced sharp pushback from her panel of guests on Wednesday after providing cover for Vice President Kamala Harris’s shifting positions since her 2019 presidential run.
As the race zeroes in on Pennsylvania, a swing state where fracking remains extremely popular and a centerpiece of the state’s economy, Harris has brazenly changed her position since first calling for a federal ban on the practice. During Tuesday night’s debate, the vice president reiterated that she does not support a ban and prompting further scrutiny about whether she first reversed herself in 2020 after joining President Joe Biden’s ticket. Phillip was the first to suggest that Harris’s position is nothing new.
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“On the fracking question… in 2019 she said fracking, ‘I’m gonna do away with it.’ You can’t say you’re gonna do away with it. They had her dead to right on that,” former progressive Ohio state senator Nina Turner told Phillip. “What you can say as a candidate is ‘I’m not in 2019, I’m not in 2020, and you know what, I changed my mind.’” Phillip stammered back, “I guess the reality of it is she reversed herself in 2020,” causing most of the panel to groan. “No she didn’t,” conservative panelist Scott Jennings seethed. “It’s a weak argument.” Others attempted to chime in that Phillip’s statement wasn’t accurate. “It’s a lie is what it is,” Republican guest Bryan Lanza added.
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Watch CNN’s @abbydphillip get instantly ratioed by the entire panel for lying about Kamala’s plan to ban fracking pic.twitter.com/oL7gqh1Pvx
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 12, 2024
Earlier this week a CNN investigation uncovered a litany of liberal answers Harris provided the ACLU when first running for president. Among them were affirmations that if elected she would support federal funding for gender reassignment surgeries for migrants as well as convicted federal prisoners. Both have since been disavowed by her campaign. Anchor Erin Burnett drew sharp contrasts between the Harris of then and now. “In 2019, [Harris] said she would cut funding to ICE,” Erin Burnett said. “Taxpayer-funded transition surgery for detained migrants? She actually said she supported that?!” she asked reporter Andrew Kaczynski incredulously. “You would be hard to think you would come up with taxpayer-funding gender transitions for detained migrants.” On X, the Trump campaign piled one, writing, “Comrade Kamala’s record is so extreme, even Erin Burnett couldn’t believe it.”
Further down in the 2019 questionnaire, the ACLU asked if Harris would support the decriminalization of all controlled substances in order to better address drug abuse as a public health crisis. Harris answered affirmatively. “What would this mean?” Kaczynski asked Burnett. “All drug possession, not just marijuana… fentanyl, crack, cocaine, things like that.”
Shifting support for fracking may be the least of the controversial former positions Harris has to worry about, but she is doing her best to keep the details about her potential administration under wraps. Undecided voters reacted to Tuesday night’s presidential debate, telling reporters they still remain skeptical after Harris failed to provide detailed explanations about her support for expanded health care, tamping down the cost of goods, and growing the nation’s base of job openings.