Vivek Ramaswamy and CNN’s Kate Bolduan engage in vicious exchange on Trump, Harris policy flip-flops: ‘Is someone allowed to evolve?’

A CNN anchor got into a heated exchange about Donald Trump’s policies with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday.

Kate Bolduan and Ramaswamy engaged in an argument, sometimes with raised voices, as they compared the political agendas of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

The former GOP candidate, who has become a devoted surrogate for Trump’s campaign since dropping his own bid for the White House, attempted to clarify some of the former president’s positions, while Bolduan accused him of changing course.

Ramaswamy then criticized Kamala Harris’ record on policy change.

“To use Kamala Harris’ own words against her, which I think we should do, she ran for president with the idea of ​​a tax on unrealized capital gains, with the idea of ​​abolishing — her words — private health insurance, a ban on fracking, a ban on offshore drilling,” Ramaswamy said.

“These are the kinds of policies that are absolutely not mainstream for most Americans,” he continued. “And this is where I think the debate will be useful.”

He also urged the media to monitor Harris more closely and make her give more interviews.

Bolduan looked less than cheerful and then tried to make clear how Harris has changed her mind about policies she previously supported, such as banning private health insurance and fracking.

“Those are not her views,” Bolduan countered.

Ramaswamy criticized Kamala Harris for previously proposing a ban on private health insurance

The former GOP candidate is also a popular surrogate for the former president

‘Vivek, but about banning private health insurance, [Harris] said she doesn’t believe that, and she doesn’t believe that now,” the host argued.

“As far as banning fracking, she’s made it clear … that she no longer supports that.”

Referring to an earlier interview with CNN, the host recounted how the vice president explained her change of heart.

“I think the most important and meaningful aspect of my policy vision and decisions is that my values ​​have not changed,” Harris said last week.

In 2019, when Harris was first running for the White House, she told voters at a downtown rally, “There’s no question that I’m for a ban on fracking and that we need to start on day one with what we can do on public lands.”

During Wednesday’s interview, the two often talked over each other, trying to get their point across as the other started talking.

“When you evolve on an issue, when you evolve on a position — you can even call it flip-flopping on an issue — when that’s no longer allowed, when that should be the death knell for a campaign,” Bolduan added. “Donald Trump has problems there.”

Donald Trump said he had decided how he would vote in Florida’s upcoming referendum on the recently passed six-week abortion ban. “I think six weeks is a mistake,” he said. “And I’ll be saying that soon, but I want more than six weeks.”

The Trump campaign released a statement clarifying its position

She specifically cited Trump’s recent six-week U-turn on Florida’s abortion ban.

Trump said earlier in an interview with DailyMail.com: “I think it should be longer than six weeks.”

The next day, the former president indicated he would vote against Florida’s proposal to expand abortion care.

It appears the Trump campaign has released a statement about the initiative following the DailyMail.com report.

Ramaswamy then tried to explain the former president’s position, saying the referendum was framed in a “vague” manner.