MAGA Rages That Kamala Harris Is A Threat To Plastic Straws

As it became clear on Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris is the front-runner to replace President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, pro-Donald Trump conservatives went on TV to fiercely condemn her position on sipping devices.

“I mean, heck, she wants to get rid of plastic straws, for goodness sake,” Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump’s campaign, told NBC.“Whereas Joe Biden was renting some of the territory on the more extreme left, Kamala Harris owns it.”

In a lengthy monologue on Sunday, Fox News host Sean Hannity said Harris would “be the single most radical major party candidate to run for election.” He went on to condemn her environmental record, including her previous support for ending the oil and gas drilling practice known as fracking and, of course, reining in the use of plastic straws.

“She wants to ban plastic straws,” Hannity grumbled. “I love my plastic straw. I hate those paper straws. Anyway.”

That the GOP response to Biden dropping out of the 2024 race immediately centered on culture-war grievances wasn’t lost on Democratic pollster and strategist Matt McDermott.

“Republicans are completely lost right now,” McDermott wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “They’re seriously going for the plastic straw attack! Republicans are literally flailing for a message against Kamala Harris.”

It is true that Harris voiced support for banning plastic straws. During a CNN town hall in September 2019, she said “we do need to ban the plastic” but acknowledged that current paper straws are “flimsy” and difficult to drink out of.

“Innovation is a process,” she added. “Let’s encourage innovation.”

A few months before Harris’ comments, then-President Trump was also asked