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Kamala Harris says her values haven't changed since she last ran for president even if her positions on key issues have. The two most important examples picked out last night by CNN's Dana Bash in Harris's first sit-down interview since Biden quit the race were fracking and immigration. On the former, she said the climate crisis was real but that she now endorsed the $390 billion Inflation Reduction Act to tackle it, rather than banning fracking, which happens to be widespread in the must-win state of Pennsylvania. On the latter, she pivoted to her efforts to prosecute human traffickers as attorney general of California. On both, she said her priority was to forge consensus to "solve the problem". She was cogent and prepared – not something it has ever been possible to say about her opponent – and for now she continues to be rewarded in the polls. Two new surveys, by Reuters and the WSJ, showed her widening her lead over Trump in national vote share and personal approval. A furious argument between the US army and Team Trump over its apparent abuse of Arlington National Cemetery for a campaign commercial may have helped.
