The Democratic congresswoman criticized the 'bad' practice—used to extract shale gas—after last night's vice presidential debate.
The New York Representative and co-chair of the Biden campaign's climate change task force tweeted that the practice, which is used to extract shale gas, was"bad".
Her comments came shortly after Wednesday night's vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City, during which Senator Harris dismissed the Trump campaign's claim that Democratic presidential nominee"First of all, I will repeat, and the American people know, that Joe Biden will not ban fracking," Harris told the mask-wearing audience at the debate."That is a fact."The California senator later doubled down on the point.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses the Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020. The congresswoman has hit out at fracking as Joe Biden's campaign has distanced him from a ban on the practice.Reacting to the remarks in the wake of the debate, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted:"Fracking is bad, actually." At the time of writing, the congresswoman's post has been liked more than half a million times and shared 75,000 times.
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