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Kamala Harris’ Extreme Weather and Home Insurance Comment at the Debate Was Misleading

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15.09.2024

Alright, so all of us political masochists watched the presidential debate, and a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth is happening surrounding who “won” or who had the best performance, but I think it is undebatable that the moderators had a bias for Kamala Harris. They did not interrupt or attempt to fact-check her as they did Trump, and it’s not because Kamala didn’t lie or make inaccurate statements.

I’ll focus on one particular example: Kamala’s comments on extreme weather and home insurance.

During the debate, the moderators asked the now-standard Big Climate Change Question, asserting that young Americans are worried about it. Kamala seemed well prepared, if misinformed (or lying) when in her response she claimed that people who live in states who “experienced these extreme weather occurrences” are familiar and right to be concerned about climate change, especially with regards to home insurance costs, which are high in hurricane-prone places like Florida.

Let’s examine that claim briefly.

There is not a state in the union that doesn’t experience weather extremes. There........

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