Kamala Harris thought she had all the momentum in the race.
But her missteps are starting to become a bad problem.
And Kamala Harris made one wrong move that will cost her dearly with voters.
Kamala Harris feels the heat for fracking flip-flop
Vice President Kamala Harris was one of the leaders of the green energy movement when she served in the Senate.
She was one of the sponsors of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal.
During her 2020 Presidential campaign, she made one promise that is haunting her.
REALITY CHECK: Kamala Harris is literally on video saying that there was “no question” that she would ban fracking.
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/duVNEpv7vh
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 30, 2024
“There is no question that I am in favor of banning fracking,” Kamala told a climate activist at a 2019 CNN town hall.
She started singing a different tune after she became the Democrat Presidential nominee in July.
Her campaign released an anonymous statement claiming she no longer supports banning fracking.
Pennsylvania is the biggest swing state in the country this year, and whoever wins it has the inside track on winning the election.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has become a major issue in Pennsylvania after it powered a natural gas boom in the state.
Fracking has created more than 100,000 good-paying jobs in the state and generates more than $40 billion annually in economic activity.
Kamala has struggled to explain her flip-flop on fracking during her limited unscripted public appearances.
Voters aren’t buying Kamala’s sudden change of heart
Stingray Pressure Pumping service supervisor Scott Ivey has worked all around Pennsylvania in the natural gas industry.
He told the New York Post that the natural gas industry is critical to the state’s economy.
“It’s a tremendous surge of money,” Ivey said. “You think about when I stay at a hotel. Three-quarters of people that are staying at the hotel at that time are working in the oil and gas industry. Sometimes it’s almost impossible to book hotels because they’re so full up.”
Gladiator Energy saleswoman Sarah Phillips said that fracking has revitalized Canonsburg in the state’s southwestern corner.
“It was desolate just a decade ago,” Phillips recalled. “And now it’s this huge, thriving area with restaurants, hotels, bowling alleys — like anything that you can possibly think of.”
Pennsylvania workers in the gas industry are skeptical about Kamala’s political conversion on fracking.
“I don’t believe anything Kamala Harris says,” Ivey said. “I don’t want to get too political, but I believe she’ll regulate it so hard that it’ll be impossible to frack once she gets in.”
Ivey has worked in the industry during three Presidential administrations and saw a shift against energy during the Biden-Harris administration.
“Biden won, all the jobs have seemed to slow down,” Ivey explained. “They’ve all moved in a green direction, like electric fleets and whatnot, which only certain people have.”
Phillips explained that construction on a key natural gas pipeline in Pennsylvania was slowed for years by lawsuits from environmental activist groups allied with the Biden-Harris administration.
“And that was due to kickback from the Biden and Harris administration,” Phillips said. “We had federal leasing bans. We had [liquified-natural-gas] prohibitions, power-plant shutdowns, EV mandates.”
Kamala Harris’ years of support for banning fracking could come back to haunt her on Election Day in Pennsylvania.
