Kamala Harris on Thursday addressed her policy changes over the years to CNN's Dana Bash in Harris' first sitdown interview as the Democratic nominee for president.
"I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is, my values have not changed," Harris said, when Bash asked about how voters should view her policy shifts.
"You mentioned the Green New Deal," the vice president continued. "I have always believed — and I have worked on it — that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time."
"We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act," the Democratic nominee said. "We have set goals for the United States of America and, by extension, the globe around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as an example. That value has not changed."
Harris noted that similarly her values on border security have "not changed."
"I spent two terms as the attorney general of California prosecuting transnational criminal organizations, violations of American laws regarding the passage — illegal passage — of guns, drugs, and human beings across our border," Harris said.
