Ramaswamy sticks it to CNN host on Kamala's 'evolution': 'I don't blame voters,' I blame you

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy educated CNN host Kate Bolduan over Vice President Kamala Harris’s flip-flops.

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The two discussed the inexplicable changes to Harris’s platform, as she moves away from previous positions that are not popular with the majority of voters. While Bolduan characterized this as an “evolution,” Ramaswamy pointed out that she has not explained to voters why she has chosen to abandon those policies. This leads many to wonder if she’s pretending to embrace more moderate positions for the sake of the presidential race, rather than actually having shifted her perspective on matters.

“I don‘t blame the voters. They‘ve been served up a new version of Kamala Harris, where she is running to the center on economic and social policies. To use Kamala Harris’s own words against her, as I believe we should, she ran for president favoring a tax on unrealized capital gains, favoring an abolition — her words — to abolish private health insurance, a ban on fracking, bans on offshore drilling,” Ramaswamy said.

“These are the kinds of policies that absolutely are not mainstream for most Americans. And this is where I do think the debate will be useful,” he continued. “I do think that greater media scrutiny of Kamala Harris hopefully with more sit-down interviews than we‘ve had so far, will be helpful. Say what you will, you may or may not agree with Donald Trump. He and J.D. Vance have sat for tens of interviews as have other members of the campaign and surrogate team. The reality is we haven‘t seen the same from Kamala Harris.”

“I do expect that‘s going to change in the next couple of months, and I believe voters are going to be very well-informed heading into November,” the former candidate acknowledged.

“Vivek, but on the banning of health private health insurance, she has said she does not believe that and she does not believe that now, on banning fracking, she has made clear and she did in the interview with Dana Bash that she does not support that anymore. If evolving, or call it what you want, ‘flip-flopping’-” Bolduan said as the pair engaged in some crosstalk before Bolduan continued her questioning.

“If evolving on an issue is not allowed, if that should be the death knell to a campaign Donald Trump‘s got issues there,” the host smirked.

“So look, the reality is that [former President Donald] Trump’s been clear about his policy issues. With Kamala Harris, I want to be specific about this, actions speak louder than words. Let’s, you brought up some claims about Kamala Harris, I want to finish that discussion. She said she didn‘t favor a ban on fracking now, the reality is, she was one of the strongest proponents of that ban and so much so that when she was in California, she sued the Obama Administration over granting fracking permits,” Ramaswamy explained.

“She didn‘t just favor the abolition of private health insurance. She was a co-sponsor of the bill with Bernie Sanders as a U.S. Senator for Medicare, for all Americans the reality is, when you think about the Green New Deal, she was the chief proponent, not just as a co-sponsor of the legislation, but going further and saying she would end the filibuster in the Senate to ram that through. So the reality is she can say what she wants to say now, those are actions she has taken. Is someone allowed to evolve? Of course, they are, but she deserves to explain exactly why she‘s changed those positions. Exactly what her position is. If it‘s not a ban on fracking, what exactly is it?”

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