<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Kamala Harris has unveiled a few centrist-leaning policies, abandoned some past positions and left much else vague as she gears up for a critical US presidential debate with Donald Trump.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Democratic vice president unveiled a list of policies on her website on the eve of the clash, with Republicans accusing her of "flip-flopping" on key issues.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is where the White House hopeful stands in five key areas:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">- 'Opportunity economy' -</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harris has stressed her commitment to the United States' middle class, citing her own background of being raised by a single mother in California, and said she wants to create an "opportunity economy."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of her most concrete policies so far is a child tax credit of $6,000 for families of newborn children. She has also promised tax cuts for 100 million Americans while raising taxes on the richest, and to bring down housing prices.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tax is one of the few policy areas where she has broken with President Joe Biden. In a nod to moderate voters, she wants a 28 percent tax on capital gains, less than the 39.6 percent proposed by Biden.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harris has also promised to end taxes on tips paid to service industry workers -- weeks after Trump announced a similar policy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She has said she will take on "price gouging" by corporations to tackle high prices -- one of her main weak spots against Republican Trump -- but her plans on that front remain vague.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">- Environmental flip-flops -</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harris has not set out a detailed environmental policy except on one key area: fracking.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She has vowed not to ban the practice, which uses high-pressure water to extract oil and gas -- despite previously saying that she was opposed to it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In her first and only on-screen interview since becoming the Democratic candidate, she told CNN that her "values have not changed" even if her position had.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harris has, according to the Axios news site, also backtracked on her opposition to plastic straws.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As vice president, she has strongly backed Biden's green energy transition under the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">- Border 'consequences' -</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Illegal migration over the US-Mexican border is one of the most sensitive issues in the campaign.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harris said in her CNN interview there would be "consequences" for people crossing illegally.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She supported Biden's bid to toughen migration policy and has backed investing in the border "wall" that Trump called for -- despite her criticizing it in the past.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Biden's proposals, however, have never made it through a divided Congress, with Republicans blocking them to cause Democrats political damage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">- Firm on abortion -</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harris's position on abortion, another key election issue, is not in doubt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She has repeatedly criticized Trump for bragging that he enabled the US Supreme Court to overturn the federal right to terminate pregnancies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harris has said that if elected she would push to enshrine protections for abortion in US law.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">- Gaza quagmire -</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harris has been more vocal than Biden on the issue of civilians killed by Israel in the war in Gaza, leading to speculation that she might take a tougher line with the US ally.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But during her CNN interview she said she would not halt arms deliveries to Israel, despite calls among Democrats and Arab American voters to do so, and pledged to help Israel defend itself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>