Clyburn Claims Republicans Are Lying About VP Harris Supporting Defunding the Police, Fracking Ban on Tape

SANCHEZ: “You’ve said that you want to see a love fest at the convention, the party rallying around Vice President Harris. Is there any doubt at all in your mind that she is going to be the nominee? Do you have any indication that there might be resistance at the convention?”
Clyburn: “Absolutely None, whatsoever. Thank you very much for having me. The fact of the matter is Democrats have coalesced around this nominee in a way that I have not seen since maybe Barack Obama. We believe in her. We believe in Joe Biden. She was a partner with him in laying out a record that she can run on and a record that all of us can defend as Democrats, a record which I think is a launching pad for what will be a successful campaign for the presidency.”
SANCHEZ: “Speaking of that record, sir, the Trump team is using some of Harris’s previous remarks about banning fracking, about demilitarizing the police, promoting Medicare for all to convince voters that she is a radical leftist. How do you think she should respond?”
Clyburn: “With her record. She has a record as a prosecutor in California prosecuting people who broke the law. She has a record as a district attorney for — I’m sorry — for the attorney general for the entire state of California, a state that is three times what some of the biggest states of the other 49 states. And she has a record as vice president of these United States. So irrespective of what the MAGA Republicans may say, all she has to do is bring attention to her record. That’s what speaks. The problem we’ve got here in politics today, people just lie and lie and lie. And we are tending to accept that as normal. That is not normal for these United States of America. When I was growing up here in South Carolina, that was one of the worst things you could do is just to tell lies. But Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans just lie, lie and lie. And we tend to accept it. Her record is very clear for anybody who wishes to take a look at it. So we can’t trust them to do it. We Democrats will have all attention to this record day in and day out for the next 100 some odd days to make sure that the American people get a good look at her record and not have to listen to the foolishness coming from the other side.”
SANCHEZ: “To be fair, the things that I pointed out in terms of Medicare for all and demilitarizing the police are things she said early on in the 2020 campaign.”