Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday accused former President Donald Trump of “flip-flopping” on the abortion issue about two months after the election, as Republicans continue to attack Vice President Kamala Harris for her policy reversals.
In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union,” Schiff was asked to explain what he thinks about Harris changing his stance on the method of extracting natural gas, also known as fracking.
As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris said he supported banning fracking, but has since reversed his stance and said he would not ban it if he won in November.
Schiff defended Harris, saying the vice president has demonstrated his commitment to fighting climate change, including working to pass the Inflation Reduction Act.
Schiff added that while he still supports a fracking ban, “I’m not the vice president of the United States.”
“And I think when you represent the whole country, you have a different perspective,” he said.
Schiff then turned to Trump, saying that while Harris changed his position on fracking four years ago, Trump “changed his position four times on abortion in the last 48 hours.”
“That’s a much more important issue to me, especially when you’re talking about abortion and you’re talking about the right and freedom of Americans to be so pandering, wishy-washy, flippant and disrespect the rights and freedoms of millions of American women, and do all of this in one day,” Schiff said. “Here it is. contrast.”
Schiff added that Trump’s evolving stance on abortion shows he has “no values.”
On Thursday, Trump suggested he would vote in favor of Florida’s November amendment that would change the state constitution to allow abortion up to the fetus’s viability, which is usually about 24 weeks. Since May, the state has banned medical procedures for more than six weeks, with a few exceptions.
However, Trump’s campaign almost immediately retracted his words, saying the candidate had not yet revealed how he planned to vote on the issue. Then on Friday, the GOP presidential nominee announced he would vote against the measure, claiming, without merit, that laws in Democratic-led states allow infanticide.
“Some states, like Minnesota and other states, have the ability to execute a baby after birth, and all of that is unacceptable,” Trump said. “So I’m voting no for that reason.”
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung attacked Schiff for his criticism of the former president, calling the California Democrat “one of the most despicable and obnoxious elected officials in Congress” in a statement shared with The Hill.
“This is just more disgusting gaslighting from a disgusting person who has no decency and no character to be president,” Cheung said.
While Trump has continued to develop his views on a range of issues, from abortion to whether the popular social media site TikTok should be banned in the US, Republicans have attacked Harris for his change of heart, claiming he is “dangerously liberal”. “candidate.
