Kamala Harris Wanted to Ban Plastic Straws in 2020

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Wendell Husebo

“I think we should” ban plastic straws, Vice President Kamala Harris said in 2020 during her presidential campaign, underscoring her record as the most far-left senator in 2019.

GovTrack’s scorecard ranked Harris as the most liberal senator in 2019, further left than socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

“Yeah, I am a radical,” Harris admitted during a public event in 2010 at Google.

During a CNN town hall, when asked, “Do you ban plastic straws?” Harris replied, “I think we should, yes”:

Harris has yet to flip-flop in 2024 about plastic straws being banned, although she appears to be back-peddling on many policies she previously championed, raising concerns about whether voters can trust the de facto Democrat nominee.

Harris no longer supports “a federal job guarantee,” an anonymous Harris campaign spokesperson told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday.

Citing anonymous campaign officials, the New York Times reported Monday that Harris now (1) supports fracking, (2) wants to increase funding for the border, (3) does not want to require people to sell their assault weapons back to the government, and (4) no longer supports “a single-payer health insurance program.”

Neither Harris nor campaign aides have yet to fully embrace the changed policy positions by delivering on-the-record, public statements, causing doubt as to what Harris’s true positions are.

A list of Harris’s radical policies includes:

  1. Endorsing “some form of reparation”
  2. Cosponsored legislation to protect illegal immigrants from deportation
  3. Backed Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All legislation
  4. Backed banning private health insurance
  5. Supported giving taxpayer-funded coverage to illegal immigrants
  6. Supported banning fracking
  7. Backed defunding the police
  8. Compared ICE to the KKK
  9. Wanted to ban plastic straws
  10. Defended banning offshore drilling
  11. Wanted to “undo” the Trump administration’s border security, taking 94 executive actions in their first 100 days to rescind nealy every Trump-era measure
  12. Supported decriminalizing illegal border crossings
  13. Said she wouldn’t “treat” illegal aliens as “criminals”
  14. Called for “starting [ICE] from scratch”
  15. Argued that temporarily closing the border violated federal law
  16. Raised money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a far-left organization that pays to bail out of jail violent criminals, including accused murderers and rapists.
  17. Supported Los Angeles’s cuts to their police department
  18. Called efforts to add more police to the streets “wrongheaded thinking”
  19. Championed the administration’s so-called “Bidenomics” as costs dramatically soared for American families
  20. Bragged about being a “leader” in the push to “get rid of the cash bail system in America.”

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Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.

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