Zoom News : Oct 23, 2020, 03:20 PM
New York: Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden falsely claimed he’s never opposed fracking during Thursday night’s final presidential debate.“I never said I oppose fracking,” Biden said.resident Donald Trump, however, pushed him on the issue, saying that Biden “said it on tape.”Despite Trump’s correct announcement, Biden continued to qualify his statements on fracking after moderator Kristen Welker asked the former vice president to clarify.“I do rule out banning fracking because we need other industries to get ultimately to complete zero omissions by 2025,” he said.Trump, however, continued to point out Biden’s fracking flip-flop.“Excuse me — he was against fracking. He said it,” Trump pointed out. “I will show it to you tomorrow. Until he got the nomination, went to Pennsylvania. But you know what, Pennsylvania, he will be against it very soon because his party is against it.”“Fracking on federal land I said. No fracking on federal land,” Biden continued, but his efforts to scrub his previous statements were made in vain.Despite Biden and his vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s insistence that Biden never said he opposed fracking, Biden has repeatedly condemned fracking and the fossil fuels industry.“We would work it out. We would make sure it’s eliminated,” Biden said about coal and fracking from the Democratic presidential debate stage just a few months ago.“We are going to get rid of fossil fuels,” he also promised from the podium at a New Hampshire rally.