8 months ago
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Ohio Senator
JD Vance
accused Vice President
Kamala Harris
of running a "
copycat campaign
" during a
campaign event
in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. Vance's remarks targeted Harris’s recent policy shifts, including her stance on
electric vehicle mandates
.
At the event, Vance criticized Harris’s approach to energy policy, specifically electric vehicle mandates.
"She wants to raise the price of diesel, raise the price of gasoline and have every trucker in this country drive an electric vehicle," Vance claimed.
Harris led the Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan in December 2021, aiming for 50% of car sales to be electric by 2030, reported Fox News. The Biden-Harris administration's 2024 environmental regulations also require half of all new car and truck sales to be electric.
Ammar Moussa, Harris’s campaign rapid response director, countered Vance's claims in a fact-check email, stating that the vice president "does not support an electric vehicle mandate," despite her past promotion of increased EV sales.
Vance also criticized Harris for allegedly altering her positions on other significant issues, including fracking, an automatic weapons buyback program, border wall construction, and Medicare for all. "If you look at her campaign, the past week and a half, she pretends that she agrees with Donald J. Trump on every issue. She is running a copycat campaign," Vance said.
Vance further argued that Harris's policies would negatively impact American truckers. "We have a vice president, Kamala Harris, who wants to be president, who thinks that our truckers, we ought to put them out of business, and that our truckers should all learn computer code," he stated. "If you force all these great truckers to buy electric trucks instead of the trucks they're currently using, you're going to make this inflation crisis way worse than it currently is."
In response, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign emphasized the differences between the two campaigns. "Unlike Donald Trump and JD Vance, Vice President Harris supports abortion rights instead of ripping them away, cutting middle-class taxes instead of raising them by nearly $4,000, and bringing Americans together instead of dividing them," the spokesperson said. "Most importantly, she opposes Donald Trump and JD Vance's dangerous Project 2025 agenda."
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