Then-Senator Kamala Harris’ 2019 pledges to support ACLU’s radical leftist goals have surfaced and the 2024 Harris campaign is refusing to say whether the Democrat presidential candidate’s policy promises have changed.
On Monday, the day before Harris’ debate with Republican candidate Donald Trump, CNN.com reported that an ACLU survey Sen. Harris answered during her failed bid for president in 2019 “spotlights her past support for left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners”:
“In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris filled out as a candidate for president in 2020, she also expressed support for decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use, and for sweeping reductions to Immigration and Custom Enforcement operations, including drastic cuts in ICE funding and an open-ended pledge to ‘end’ immigration detention.”
Curiously, the ACLU says it has no interest in sending Candidate Harris a new survey to find out if her policies have changed – and the Harris campaign has refused to answer questions from CNN about whether she still plans to keep the promises she made to the ACLU in 2019 or explain what her current positions are.
Instead of asking for her position on issues, all 15 questions in the 2019 survey asked Harris if she, as president, would take action to achieve ACLU’s policy goals on various issues.
Ten of the 15 questions asked Harris to “pledge” or “commit” to achieving ACLU’s goals, while the others asked if she would take action to achieve them.
Harris did not answer “No” to any of the 15 ACLU questions seeking her support.
Harris refused to answer “Yes” or “No” to eight of the 15 questions, but fundamentally expressed support for ACLU’s goals in her written responses.
Most of the yes-or-no questions she declined to answer were regarding law enforcement and asked her to commit to reaching specific targets.
For example, one question asked Harris if she would “commit to reduce the size of the immigration detention system by at least 75%.” She did not answer the yes-or-no question, but promised in her written response to reduce detention by 50%.
The 15 survey questions asked Harris if, and how, she would help ACLU:
- Reduce incarceration and clemency.
- Decriminalize all drug possession for personal use (federal law).
- Restrict use of deadly force by police officers.
- Provide a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
- Reduce immigration detention.
- Pursue the right to vote for all incarcerated individuals.
- Support D.C. statehood.
- Support the BE HEARD Act.
- Protect political boycotts, including BDS.
- Expand health care access.
- Restrict access to warrants for information from organizations, such as Facebook and Google.
It really is impossible to overstate how bad this CNN segment is for Kamala Harris.
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) September 10, 2024
It’s her whole pitiful “campaign” in one clip.pic.twitter.com/ytsn4ahZWC