In a rare interview with the media, Vice President Kamala Harris insisted that there had been no significant shift in her positions.

In her first interview with CNN as a presidential candidate for 2024, Ms. Harris said: “I believe the most significant and important aspect of my policies and decisions is that my values haven’t changed.”

Ms. Harris was accused of flip-flopping over a dozen major issues in her bid to win moderate voters from battleground states. She gave the most detailed explanation about how she changed her views on illegal migration.

Ms. Harris, who said a few short years ago that illegal border crossings should be decriminalized now says she will prosecute.

She said, “I am the only candidate in this race to have served as Attorney General of a bordering state and enforced our laws. I will enforce our laws if elected president.” “I acknowledge the problem.”

Ms. Harris (59) answered the questions taped in a downtown Savannah restaurant without major gaffes, and Gov. Tim Walz (60) was by her side.

She tried to grab attention by saying she would choose a Republican to be in her Cabinet, if she won the election. However, she didn’t specify who it would be.

“It’s important that people with different perspectives and experiences are at the table to make some of the most critical decisions,” said Ms. Harris. “I believe it would be in the best interest of the American people to have a Republican member of my Cabinet.”

The interviewer Dana Bash was unable to get a detailed response from Ms. Harris about why she suddenly supports legislation to resume construction of a southern border wall. She also failed to ask why she does not support ending private health insurance, despite pledging “Medicare for All” or why she has reneged on her promise to ban fracking in federal land after she pledged to do so when she ran for President in 2019.

Ms. Harris explained that she had changed her approach to key issues after spending four years as vice president, traveling around the country.

“I think it’s important to reach a consensus and to have a shared understanding about how we can solve problems,” said Ms. Harris.

As soon as the interview started, Ms. Harris attacked her opponent, Donald Trump, former president, age 78, with whom she is tied in most polls.

She spoke about her campaign as if President Biden and not Mr. Trump had been in office for 3 1/2 years.

Ms Harris stated that the former president had a real agenda, and created an environment which aimed to diminish the strength and character of Americans. “It’s really dividing our country, and I believe people are ready for a new chapter.”

She also praised Biden’s policies, which helped the nation recover after COVID-19. And high inflation. But she said that she would do even more to help middle-class families by creating an opportunity economy. This includes a $25,000 credit for first time homebuyers.

She replied, “We needed to recover our economy.”

She then shifted to the law that Mr. Biden signed that caps the cost of insulin and other prescription medications for Medicare recipients. She also cited the extension of the Child Tax Credit by the Obama administration and the funding policies that create manufacturing jobs and improve the nation’s supply chains.

She called Biden’s agenda “good work.”

When asked about the pledge she made to ban fracking in federal lands, which she strongly supported while running for the Democratic nomination in 2019, Ms. Harris said that she had abandoned this position by 2020 and wouldn’t ban it if she were elected president.

She said that she supports the so-called Climate Crisis.

“It is important to me that we are serious about what we need to do in order to avoid what I believe is a climate crisis,” said Ms. Harris, referring specifically the green energy expenditures in the Inflation Reduction Act, signed by Mr. Biden.

She said, “What I’ve seen is that without banning fracking we can continue to grow and increase a clean energy economy.”

Ms. Harris has said that she will sign a border measure which provides funding to resume construction of the wall. However, most Republicans believe the measure is too weak to stop illegal immigration.

Mr. Walz, who was a former teacher and served for 24 years in the Army National Guard evaded direct questions about claims that he had served in a conflict zone. In fact, he retired from the Army just before his unit went to Afghanistan.

He did not explain why he claimed that he and wife had used IVF when they actually used another fertility treatment which does not require creating an embryo in the lab.

He avoided answering directly a question regarding the attempt by his 2006 campaign staff to hide details about his 1995 DUI arrest.

“I think that people know me.” “They know this record,” said Walz who was elected as governor for the first time in 2018. They know that I have taught thousands of students. I have been there and I will not apologize for my passionate speeches, whether they are about guns in schools, or reproductive rights. “The contrast between what we are running against and what we’re fighting could not be more clear.”

At a Michigan rally, Mr. Trump criticised the interview, saying that Ms. Harris “didn’t seem like a strong leader to me.”

His campaign capitalized on Ms. Harris’ claim that her values hadn’t changed. It listed 24 liberal ideas Ms. Harris had supported.

These policies include abolishing ICE and allowing minors without parental consent to change gender, ending cash bails, offering amnesty to unvetted illegals, eliminating private health care, banning straws, and banning gas powered vehicles.

In a press release, the campaign stated that “Kamala Harris is weak, failed and dangerously left-wing.”