Vice President Mike Pence accused his Democratic rival of wanting to ban fracking, forcing Sen. Kamala Harris to distance Joe Biden’s climate plan from pressure from progressive Democrats to restrict natural gas.

“They want to abolish fossil fuels and ban fracking, which would cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs all across the heartland,” Pence said during Wednesday’s vice presidential debate.

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