Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team said Tuesday it’s a “lie” that she supports electric vehicle mandates, but her record on the issue suggests the opposite.
The Harris campaign blasted out an email ahead of Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s Tuesday visit to Michigan, with campaign communications official Ammar Moussa writing that Vance would “undoubtedly lie” about things like the notion that “Harris wants to force every American to own an electric vehicle.” However, Harris backed EV mandates while serving in the U.S. Senate, and presided over the Biden administration’s massive spending and regulatory push to effectively force more EVs on the roads.
“Vice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate,” Moussa wrote in the email. “Donald Trump railed against the Inflation Reduction Act while the Biden-Harris administration oversaw the creation of tens of thousands of new, clean energy jobs in Michigan and provided ground-breaking subsidies and tax credits for electric vehicles.”
Then-Sen. Harris was a co-sponsor of the Zero Emissions Vehicles Act in 2019, a bill that initially proposed to require 100% of new car sales to be EVs or otherwise be emissions-free by 2040. Harris later campaigned, during her failed 2020 presidential bid, on having all new car sales be zero-emissions models by 2035.
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