JD Vance Claims Kamala Harris Is Running A 'Copycat Campaign' That Mimics Trump's Positions On Key Policy Issues

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Wednesday claimed that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris is running a “copycat campaign” that mimics former President Donald Trump’s positions on key policy issues.

Vance made the remarks during a campaign event in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he delivered speeches on the American trucking industry, energy policy and the economy, Fox News reported. Slamming the federal government’s electric vehicle mandates, Trump’s running mate alleged that Harris wants to “raise the price of diesel, raise the price of gasoline and have every trucker in this country drive an electric vehicle.”

US Vice President Harris previously led the Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan in December 2021, which aimed to ensure 50% of car sales were electric vehicles by 2030. The Biden-Harris administration also finaliased a regulation in 2024 requiring half of all new car and truck sales to be electric.

However, Ammar Moussa, the Harris campaign’s rapid response director, stated on Tuesday that the vice president “does not support an electric vehicle mandate.” “If you look at her campaign, the past week and half, she pretends that she agrees with Donald J. Trump on every issue. She is running a copycat campaign,” Vance told the attendees, according to Fox.

Vance claimed that Harris has changed her stance on several key issues, such as fracking, an automatic weapons buyback program, border wall construction and Medicare for all. “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 in Pennsylvania.

The senator added that a Trump-Vance administration would “stop ridiculous job-killing regulations like the EV mandate.” A Harris campaign spokesperson highlighted policy differences between the two campaigns, stating that Harris supports abortion rights, cutting middle-class taxes, and bringing Americans together, unlike Trump and Vance. Vance’s event in Pennsylvania was his latest battleground state stop, following a visit to rural voters in Big Rapids, Michigan, the previous day.