Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday criticized former President Trump for “flip-flopping” on the difficulty of abortion, after the GOP presidential candidate equally attacked his opponent, Vice President Harris, for altering her place on fracking.
“Let’s examine a scenario the place somebody modified their place 4 years in the past,” Schiff stated on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to Harris, “to Donald Trump, who’s modified his place 4 occasions on abortion within the final 48 hours.”
“That, to me, is a way more important query, significantly as, once you’re speaking about abortion, and also you’re speaking a couple of proper and freedom of the American individuals, to be so pandering, wishy-washy, flip-flopping, you realize, so disrespectful of the rights and freedoms of thousands and thousands of American girls and do all that in a single day,” Schiff continued.
“That is the distinction right here. And what’s extra, Dana, that is a values problem,” he added, addressing anchor Dana Bash. “That is a values problem, when on one thing like the proper to an abortion, you flip-flop each quarter-hour, that exhibits basically, he has no values.”
Trump has come below scrutiny in current days for showing to alter his place on a Florida abortion poll measure, which might assure the proper to abortion “earlier than viability,” about 24 weeks right into a being pregnant.
Trump signaled he opposed the measure in a Thursday interview with NBC Information, saying, “I’m going to be voting that we want greater than six weeks.”
His marketing campaign, nonetheless, appeared to stroll again these remarks, saying Trump was not truly stating how he would vote on the measure however “merely reiterated that he believes six weeks is simply too quick.”
A day later, nonetheless, Trump went on Fox Information and stated he would vote in favor of the poll initiative, apparently after going through conservative backlash to the sooner interview.
However Harris’s coverage evolution has additionally made headlines in current days, significantly after CNN’s Dana Bash pressed her on the change in her place on a fracking ban in her first sit-down interview of her marketing campaign on Thursday.
Schiff, who’s working for Senate in California, defended the previous California senator towards criticism about her evolving place on a fracking ban, saying Harris’s values have been constant, echoing her rationalization from the Thursday night time interview.
“I favor banning fracking, and I strongly imagine that the pathway to attacking local weather change is to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels,” Schiff stated when requested whether or not he is disenchanted that Harris now opposes a ban on fracking.
“However look, I am not the vp of the USA, and I do assume that if you find yourself representing the entire nation, you may have a unique perspective,” he continued. “Because the vp identified, her values, although, have remained constant.”
Harris pledged to not ban fracking if elected president, however he stated in her Thursday interview that her “values haven’t modified.” She pointed to her function in passing the Inflation Discount Act, which she stated has contributed to a growth in renewable power jobs.
“That tells me, from my expertise as vp, we will do it with out banning fracking,” Harris stated within the interview. “What I’ve seen is that we will develop and we will enhance a thriving clear power financial system with out banning fracking.”
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung shot again towards Schiff’s remarks in his interview, attacking Schiff’s character and utilizing a nickname coined by the previous president.
“Shifty Schiff has no proper to speak about morals, contemplating he is one of the crucial despicable and disgusting elected officers in Congress. He is aware of Comrade Kamala is the flip flopper as a result of she’s the one who has truly lied about her positions from fracking to the border and to the Afghanistan debacle,” Cheung stated, with out proof, in a press release.
“That is simply extra disgusting gaslighting from a disgusting one who has no decency and lacks the character to really be president,” he continued. “Disgrace!”
Trump for years has taken purpose at Schiff, who was the lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeachment trial and who additionally served on the Jan. 6 choose committee.
