Vice President Harris has moved to the political center throughout her years-long career in Washington, a dynamic that has come into sharp focus as she seeks to attract moderate voters and keep former President Trump from winning a second term in the White House.

Harris has been in public service for decades, jumping from San Francisco district attorney, to California attorney general, to U.S. senator, to 2020 presidential contender, to vice president under Joe Biden. In the course of that span, she’s shifted policy positions on a number of issues, largely to reflect the different constituencies she’s represented at different stations of her career.

The Harris campaign has defended that evolution, saying her current views have been fashioned most significantly by her most recent role as President Biden’s No. 2.

“The Vice President's positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden-Harris Administration,” a Harris campaign adviser told The Hill.

Yet Republicans have pounced on the reshaping of her policy platform, pointing to progressive positions she’s taken in the past as evidence that she’s too liberal to lead a country that’s split roughly 50/50 between the parties. They’re hoping to highlight certain pieces of her record in states and districts where they might alienate moderate voters.

“Kamala owns the Biden record from the past four years, plus she has all these statements from her 2020 run for president,” a House GOP strategist said this week. “There is a congressional district in America [where] voters will absolutely hate one of those policy positions.”

Questions surrounding Harris’s current policy positions are sure to surface Thursday night when the Democratic nominee and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), participate in a televised interview with CNN — her first extensive engagement with the press since she rose to the top of the ticket.

Here are five issues where Harris has shifted her position throughout her time in Washington.

Fracking

Fracking — the process of injecting a high-pressure blend of water and chemicals into the ground to extract hard-to-reach oil and natural gas — is anathema to environmentalists. And as Harris sought the presidential nomination in 2020 she made crystal clear that she would side with liberals in support of eliminating the controversial practice.

“There’s no question I’m in favor of banning........

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