Kamala Harris in 2024 CNN Town Hall
On Abortion:
Many pro-life people didn't intend it would happen like this
I find that many people I've met who are pro-life have said to me, I didn't intend that this would happen. I didn't intend that women who are suffering a miscarriage would develop sepsis as has happened many times. I didn't intend that women would die.
I didn't intend that there would now be restrictions on access to in vitro fertilization. This is probably one of the most fundamental freedoms that we as Americans could imagine which is the freedom to make decisions about your own body.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Oct 23, 2024
On Budget & Economy:
A new approach: national ban on price gouging
One of my aspects of doing what we need to do to bring down the cost of living for working people and the middle class in America is to address the issue of grocery prices. And part of my plan is to create a new approach, that is the first time that we
will have a national ban on price gouging, which is companies taking advantage of the desperation and need of the American consumer and jacking up prices without any consequence or accountability.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Oct 23, 2024
On Crime:
Serious consequences for crimes linked to antisemitism
We have seen a rise in anti-Semitism. It is something that we have to be honest about and we have to deal with. Part of what we've got to do is talk with people so that they understand what are the tropes, what are the roots of what we are seeing,
so that we can actually have people be more understanding. We need to have laws in place that make those who would commit crimes on behalf of anti-Semitism and hate that they pay a serious consequence.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Oct 23, 2024
On Foreign Policy:
Bring the hostages home; bring relief to the Palestinians
Far too many innocent Palestinian civilians have been killed. It's unconscionable. And we are now at a place where with Sinwar's death, I do believe we have an opportunity to end this war, bring the hostages home, bring relief to the
Palestinian people, and work toward a two-state solution where Israel and the Palestinians in equal measure have security, where the Palestinian people have dignity, self-determination, and the safety that they so rightly deserve.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Oct 23, 2024
On Health Care:
Let Medicare cover the cost of home health care for seniors
And so I bring, too, my priorities and will, as president, a new approach and a new idea, frankly, about what we need to do to deal with the sandwich generation, which is what we call those folks who are literally in the middle. You shouldn't have to
quit your job in order to do the work that is necessary to take care of your children and your parent because it's overwhelming to try to do it all. And so my plan is to have and allow Medicare to cover the cost of home health care for our seniors.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Oct 23, 2024
On Principles & Values:
I believe that your faith is a verb: you live your faith
Q: I read that one of the first phone calls you made after President Biden announced that he was dropping out was to your pastor. And I'm wondering if you could say what that conversation was like.HARRIS: My pastor, Reverend Dr. Amos C. Brown of
Third Baptist Church. It was an extraordinary day that Sunday when the president called me, and I instinctively understood the gravity of the moment. I just called him--I needed that spiritual kind of connection, I needed that advice, I needed a prayer.
Q: Do you pray every day?
HARRIS: I do pray every day, sometimes twice a day. We grew up [attending] a little neighborhood church in Oakland, 23rd Avenue Church of God. And I was raised to believe in a loving God, to believe that your faith is a
verb, you know? You live your faith and that the way that one should do that is your life's work should be to think about how you can serve in a way that is uplifting other people. And that guides a lot of how I think about my work and what is important.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Oct 23, 2024
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