Vice President Kamala Harris has spent her career championing progressive legislation, from the Green New Deal to Medicare for all. Now, she’s backtracking on some of that support as she tries to rally voters behind her as the Democratic nominee since President Joe Biden dropped out last month.
Here are six policies she’s walked back support for.
Support for a mandatory buyback program
A campaign official told Fox News that Harris is no longer supporting a mandatory buy-back program for AR-15s and similar guns. While running for president in 2019, she said, “We have to have a buy-back program and I support a mandatory buy-back program,” at a forum in Las Vegas
Trump has already capitalized off her previous comments, telling supporters at a Georgia rally, “She supports mandatory gun confiscation … Would anybody mind if they came into your house and took away your gun? … She’s for taking away al …