(New York Post) In recent weeks, The Post has spoken to several swing-state voters who plan to cast ballots for Harris. The majority of them painted a vague picture of what the vice president stands for — “pro-choice” and “the environment.”
But the main reason they’re backing Harris is because she is not former President Donald Trump.
Immigration
“I would say I believe she is more moderate in terms of immigration. In the sense that she’s not like ‘Let’s let everyone in,’” Aaliyah Dittman, a 20-year-old college student from Clarion County, Pa., told The Post when asked about Harris’ position on the border and immigration.
“But I feel like she’s kind of similar to Biden,” added Dittman, a first-time voter excited about Harris. “And that’s the difficult thing. As she is still the vice president, she has to pull herself apart from the administration and say, ‘This is what I stand for’ and maybe she hasn’t done a great job doing that.”
Harris previously supported decriminalizing crossing the border illegally, opposed Trump’s wall and oversaw Biden-Harris administration policies that let in more than 8 million migrants. Now, she says she’s for the wall and wants to hire more Border Patrol agents.
Dittman also recalled that Harris, at the Democratic National Convention, “talked about the border deal that Trump had told Republicans to shut down, and that she would bring that back.”
A 28-year-old George Mason University librarian, who didn’t want to give her name, similarly couldn’t clearly define Harris’ stance on immigration and wasn’t hesitant to say the vice president flip-flopped on the issue.
“I think she’s staying true to herself. Honestly, I can’t give you a well-rounded answer, because I haven’t seen her flip-flop,” the employee at the Fairfax, Va., school said.
“I haven’t been that invested in the news, but from what I’ve seen, knowing about her beginnings as attorney general of California to where she is now as vice president to presidential candidate — she has always seemed to stay true to herself, even though she changes her mind,” she added. “I think she really sees [illegal immigration] more as an opportunity for growth and development as in keeping in tune of what most Americans want.”
Energy and the environment
Harris supporters who spoke to The Post appeared skeptical that the vice president would do much to address the environment and admitted they were unclear about where she stood on the issue.
“I don’t know that — environment isn’t really what I focus on,” Mckenna Anderson, a junior at the University of Michigan, told The Post.
“My major is gender, so I’m not that up to date on environment issues in general,” Anderson said. “I know that her and Biden did the Alaska oil pipeline, which is not as pro-environment, I guess. So I don’t know exactly where she stands, but from what little I do know, she’s not like great on environment.”
