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 @ISIDEWITHNewsDaily DiscussionDemocratic PartyHarrisLiberalVice PresidentDeath PenaltyVice President HarrisCapital punishment•••2yrs ago

Kamala Harris won't say whether she supports death penalty

For two decades, Vice President Harris has opposed the death penalty. Now her campaign is declining to say whether she'd fight to end it as president.

Harris and her team have dodged questions about what she believes on several policy fronts as she's changed some of the liberal positions she's held.

In a shift, the Democratic Party changed its official platform this summer to remove opposition to the death penalty, which a small majority of Americans support.

The party's platforms in 2016 and 2020 had called for ending capital punishment.

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 @8G7V7HZDemocrat from Iowa  commented…2yrs2Y

She’s not dodging. She just doesn’t want to talk to the press.

 @JealousP4rtisanRepublican from California  disagreed…2yrs2Y

She's dodging. She doesn't want to talk to anyone.

 @ZealousSheepIndependentfrom Illinois  disagreed…2yrs2Y

She has dodged the entire media. The only questions she has taken have been scripted and from very friendly journalists that support her.

 @82TBBVYDemocrat from Alabama  commented…2yrs2Y

This is a scorched earth battle for the future of democracy. Ask her about the death penalty the day after she is sworn in.

 @99H5Y6SSocialist from Alabama  disagreed…2yrs2Y

Journalists are supposed to question powerful people, not focus on whether they can get elected or not.

 @DovesJayLibertarian from Illinois  commented…2yrs2Y

Biden ran into this exact problem. He campaigned on ending the federal death penalty, and then when he got into office, he realized that Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooter, was about to be tried for capital crimes. So, in that situation, should he drop the charges against Bowers? Would that be popular?

 @LapwingChrisDemocrat from Minnesota  disagreed…2yrs2Y

I’m not Biden, and I understand the political ramifications of a move like that, but I support commuting all death sentences to life in prison w/out parole. I don’t believe a developed nation like the US should sanction death as a punishment, it hasn’t been a deterrent to crime.

 @5D9DQ99Democratfrom Virginia  commented…2yrs2Y

Republicans WANT YOU to live virtuously and force your 12 year old to give birth but when it comes to saving a person on death row all of a sudden their virtue goes straight out the window.

 @9V3WQBR from Minnesota  commented…2yrs2Y

Correct, she's remaining vague on an issue in an effort to not alienate voters. This is a purely political move to further hedge her chances of winning the 2024 presidential election.

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