Vice President Kamala Harris has been running for president for just over a week, and most of that time has been spent attacking former President Donald Trump while media does the real heavy lifting: putting distance between Harris and policy positions she embraced either as a part of President Joe Biden’s administration or during her 2020 presidential campaign.
On Sunday, the policy in question was fracking — which Harris promised she would ban during her presidential campaign — and the outlet was Politico.
“Harris campaign pledges she won’t ban fracking after Trump accusation,” the headline read, and the text parroted the Harris campaign’s claim that the Trump campaign had made a false accusation even though Harris herself had done exactly what they said she had. Politico later dropped “after Trump accusation” from the headline.
“Vice President Kamala Harris’…
