Debate moderators requested Vice President Kamala Harris why a few of her coverage positions have modified since she final ran for president. Throughout her 2019 as a Democratic main candidate, Harris mentioned she’d assist a ban on fracking, a controversial approach that entails extracting fuel and oil from rock formations.

“My values haven’t modified,” Harris mentioned.

Talking throughout the Sept. 10 debate with former President Donald Trump, held in swing state Pennsylvania, she mentioned was the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Discount Act, which opened new leases for fracking.

“My place is that we’ve obtained to put money into various sources of vitality so we scale back our reliance on international oil,” she mentioned. “We’ve got had the biggest improve in home oil manufacturing in historical past due to an strategy that acknowledges that we can’t over depend on international oil.”

Harris and Trump met for his or her first and probably solely debate, hosted by ABC in Philadelphia. Harris changed President Joe Biden because the Democratic presidential nominee this summer time after Biden gave a troubling debate efficiency in June, growing requires him to drop out of the race.

Based on the most recent PBS Information/NPR/Marist ballot, greater than two-thirds of People say they may watch all or many of the debate. Whereas many citizens have already made up their minds, 14 p.c of People say the controversy can have an important influence on which candidate they select.