Kamala Harris supported 'finally putting an end to fracking once and for all' on 2020 campaign trail

During her presidential debate with former President Donald Trump, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly denied that she believes in banning fracking. But she said she supported exactly that in September 2019 as a guest on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

“Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our world today. That’s why I am committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all,” Harris said during the broadcast, after which Fallon declared that Harris “doesn’t give a frack.”

At the time of the appearance, Harris was a left-wing senator from California who had a myriad of progressive statements in her policy quiver as she ran briefly for the Democratic presidential nomination. Her repudiation of fracking was not unique to the Tonight Show.

She also said much the same thing during a CNN town hall that same September when she declared there was “no question” that she was “in favor of banning fracking,” the New York Post reported. But during the Tonight Show statement, she also gave a thumbs up to the Green New Deal, a radical project envisioned by Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) and criticized by conservatives.

Her previous enthusiasm for banning fracking has haunted Harris throughout her presidential campaign, especially with Trump in hot pursuit. She has tried to distance herself from her own comments by telling CNN, “What I have seen is that we can grow, and we can increase a clean energy economy without banning fracking,” Harris said, according to the Post.

Fracking, whereby natural gas is removed from deep within the earth, is a source of employment in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Harris's declaration that she is now pro-fracking if elected president in November has not been accepted by that state’s energy workers, many of whom don’t believe she has changed and that she will say whatever is necessary to win the presidential election, including that she now supports the border wall.

"I believe she's out there saying whatever she can to make people try to swing her way so that she can try to get the presidency," Pennsylvania technical field trainer Chad Zorban told Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones.