Fact-checking Kamala Harris’s first campaign interview

BBC Verify looks into claims the vice-president made on CNN about fracking, child poverty and green jobs.

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BBC Verify has looked into claims she made in the CNN interview about fracking, the Biden administration’s record on child tax poverty and investment in clean-energy jobs.

CLAIM: In Thursday’s interview, Ms Harris said she would not ban fracking and maintained that she has “not changed that position”.

VERDICT: This needs context and could be misleading as Ms Harris has changed her public position on fracking. In 2019, she said she was “in favour of banning fracking.”

The following year, in the 2020 vice presidential debate when she was on the Biden ticket, Ms Harris said “Joe Biden will not end fracking” and: “I will repeat, and the American people know, that Joe Biden will not ban fracking.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy78g4vg3po

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