Opi- - I don't think she was pandering, other than to make it clear that she had not been in favor of banning fracking since 2020 when she joined the Biden ticket... and she offered this explanation with a Pittsburgh news station:


"I will not ban fracking. I did not as vice president. In fact, I cast the tie-breaking vote to open up more fracking leases," Harris said. "And my perspective on this is grounded in a number of things, including that we don't have to ban fracking to do the work that we can do to also invest in a clean energy economy.

Good enough for me.