CNN Digs Into Kamala’s 2019 Policy Positions: ‘To The Left Of Bernie Sanders’

In a 2019 questionnaire that she filled out for the American  Civil Liberties Union when she was running for president, Vice-President Kamala Harris espoused hard-left positions such as decreasing funding for ICE, ending detention for illegal immigrants, funding gender transition surgeries for illegal immigrants and federal prisoners, and even decriminalization of hard drugs.

CNN’s investigative reporter Andrew Kaczynski revealed his findings on the questionnaire, which can be read here, speaking to CNN host Erin Burnett.

“This was a questionnaire that she filled out for the ACLU, and this questionnaire is really an interesting snap shot in time of that 2019 Democratic primary,” Kaczynski  stated. “Kamala Harris was trying to get to the left of Bernie Sanders. She was trying to get to the left of Elizabeth Warren and you really see that in a lot of these answers.”

“She said on immigration, she made this open ended pledge the end immigrant detention,” he continued. “She also supported it for federal prisoners. … she also pledged to slash immigration detention by 50 percent, close all family and private facilities and decreased funding for ICE, and then end ICE detainers with local law enforcement.”

In the form, Harris states that gender-transition “treatment is a medical necessity” and that she “will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment,” the form shows.

“Let’s take a look at her answer her on drugs,” Kaczynski suggested. “She got asked about this question from the ACLU was since drug use is better addressed as a public health issue through treatment and other programming, will you support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use? And Harris answers, yes.”

“Now, what would that mean? Will it mean the federal — all drug possession that’s not just marijuana, which she alluded to in her answer to this question, but it also would mean fentanyl, crack, you know, cocaine,” he explained.

Asked for a response, an unnamed Harris campaign adviser said, according to Kaczynski, “The vice president’s positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden/Harris administration.”

“They declined to CNN to elaborate on what those positions were,” he told Burnett. “Where does she stand on this all, all this questioner today, we don’t know and they won’t say.”

The ACLU told CNN it does not plan to ask Harris to fill out a new questionnaire for the 2024 election.

RFK Jr. Forced To Remain On Ballot In Key Battleground State

Michigan‘s Supreme Court, which has a majority of Democrat-nominated justices, ruled on Monday that Robert Kennedy Jr. must appear on the battleground state’s ballot despite his efforts to get removed after ending his presidential campaign.

Kennedy, who endorsed former President Donald Trump after dropping out of the 2024 race last month, “has not shown an entitlement to this extraordinary relief, and we reverse” an appeals-level decision from last week, a majority order said.

The reversal could have significant consequences in a state where Trump won against Hillary Clinton by roughly 10,000 votes in the 2016 election and President Joe Biden prevailed against Trump by about 150,000 votes in the 2020 contest.

“This plainly has nothing to do with ballot or election integrity,” said Kennedy’s attorney Aaron Siri, according to the AP. “The aim is precisely the opposite — to have unwitting Michigan voters throw away their votes on a withdrawn candidate.”

Michigan’s secretary of state, a Democrat named Jocelyn Benson, refused to take Kennedy off the ballot, prompting a lawsuit. The Natural Law Party had nominated Kennedy and Benson’s office insisted minor party candidates “cannot withdraw.”

In a statement hailing the Michigan Supreme Court’s decision, a spokesperson for Benson declared, “Clerks can now move forward with the ballot printing process to ensure absentee ballots will be delivered to voters by the federal deadlines.”

The order to keep Kennedy on the Michigan ballot earned a stern rebuke from two Republican-nominated justices on the high court, David Viviano and Brian Zahra, who warned the ruling “will do nothing to rebuild” the public’s trust in elections.

“The ballots printed as a result of the Court’s decision will have the potential to confuse the voters, distort their choices, and pervert the true popular will and affect the outcome of the election,” the pair wrote in their dissenting opinion.

Kennedy, who labored to get on the ballot in all 50 states as an independent candidate, is now trying to undo his success in various places that could prove to be pivotal in Trump’s election face-off against Vice President Kamala Harris.

The AP reported North Carolina’s high court, which has a majority of justices who are registered as Republicans, gave Kennedy a victory on Monday by ruling ballots for the presidential election must be reprinted without his name on them.