Vance questions Harris in Pennsylvania for running a 'copycat campaign' and accuses her of mirroring Trump on everything

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance questioned Kamala Harris for mimicking Donald Trump's campaign during a stop where he talked with truckers in western Pennsylvania.

According to Senator Vance, in recent weeks, Harris spent the past few weeks shifting her position on key election issues to mimic Trump's positions, including an electric vehicle mandate.

In particular, Vance claimed Harris supports a mandate "to raise the price of diesel, raise the price of gasoline, and have every trucker in this country drive an electric vehicle."

The comments from Trump's running mate came during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, where the senator addressed issues such as the U.S. trucking industry, energy policy, and the economy.

"If you look at her campaign, the past week and a half, she pretends that she agrees with Donald J. Trump on every issue. She is running a copycat campaign," Vance told attendees, noting that Harris is trying to change her position on electric cars.

Previously, Vice President Harris led the December 2021 Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan, an effort that sought to ensure that 50% of car sales would be electric vehicles by 2030.

Coupled with that effort, Fox News Digital noted that the Biden-Harris Administration "finalized one of its latest environmental regulations in 2024 to require half of all new car and truck sales to be electric."

This position could subtract from Harris' popularity in swing states like Michigan or Pennsylvania, where blue-collar workers represent a significant portion of the electorate and could define the color of their state in a potentially close election.

As a result, in recent days, the Harris campaign has made an effort to disassociate the Democratic candidate from policies that could discourage this demographic.

Ammar Moussa, director of rapid response for the Harris campaign, said Tuesday in a "fact check" that Vice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate despite her noted support for maximizing sales of such cars.

According to Fox News, Harris' team in recent weeks also claimed that the vice president "had changed her stance on several other key issues such as fracking, an automatic weapons buyback program, border wall construction and Medicare for all."

Meanwhile, Vance promised truckers that an eventual Trump administration would work hard to protect their jobs by stopping "ridiculous job-killing regulations like the EV mandate."

"We have a vice president, Kamala Harris, who wants to be president, who thinks that our truckers, we ought to put them out of business and that our truckers should all learn computer code," Vance said. "If you force all these great truckers to buy electric trucks instead of the trucks they're currently using, you're going to make this inflation crisis way worse than it currently is."

"We do not have an economy unless American truckers can do what they do so well," he sentenced.