Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, sat down with CNN today for a wide-ranging, high-stakes interview, the first Harris has given since entering the presidential race last month. Will it change the race?
CNN will air the interview at 9 p.m. ET, but some details have already come out. Harris reportedly said she would name a Republican to her Cabinet if elected and insisted that, despite some shifting policy positions since her 2019 presidential run, her fundamental values remain the same.
“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” she told CNN’s Dana Bash, offering her work on climate policy and border security as examples.
“I have always believed – and I have worked on it – that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time,” she said. “We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. We have set goals for the United States of America, and by extension the globe, around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as an example. That value has not changed. My value around what we need to do to secure our border, that value has not changed. …”
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign jumped on Harris’s comments about her values, sending out a list of two dozen positions they attributed to Harris. “It's who Kamala Harris is — weak, failed, and dangerously liberal,” the Trump release said.
The Republican campaign, meanwhile, has its own headache to deal with as the U.S. Army rebuked it over an incident Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.
