‘No Concern About Flip-Flopping?’ CNN’s Dana Bash Presses Senate Democrat About Harris Pivots on Border, Defund the Police

CNN’s Dana Bash pressed Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) about Vice President Kamala Harris “flip-flopping” on some key issues Sunday after the lawmaker said she had no concern it would turn off voters.

On Sate of the Union, the host welcomed the senator aboard to discuss Harris’s upstart campaign and the state of the race. Bash noted Harris had drastically shifted her positions on issues from police funding to border security to fracking.

“In the 2020 primary, the vice president praised the defund the police movement, and now she says she doesn’t support defunding the police,” Bash said. “She called for decriminalizing crossing the border illegally.” Bash continued:

Now she supports President Biden’s policies for clamping down at the border. She supported Medicare for all at one point, eliminating private insurance and her campaign says she doesn’t support that now. She’s reversed herself on a fracking ban. What do you think that voters should think when she’s reversed herself on several issues just in the last four years?

Butler defended Harris’s change of opinion and attributed it to the behavior of someone responding to evolving situations.

“I think that voters should think that she’s a human being who learns new things every single day and has the ability to take the time and effort to hear the concerns of all people,” she said.

The senator added that Harris would in her estimation unite the country but otherwise did not address Bash’s question.

“I think that [the voters] should absolutely believe that she is a leader who cares about people and who’s going to put them first as she has done her entire career,” the California Democrat said.

Bash replied, “So, no concern about flip-flopping?”

Butler said she had “no concern” about flip-flopping and that Harris had “been consistent in her values.”

Watch above via CNN.

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