Harris has worked as a prosecutor before
The Case for a Prosecutor: When Do I Know Donald Trump’s Type? A Brief History of Sheaf Investigations Before She Was a Candidate
She was criticized for her work in cutting down on truancy, which made parents responsible for their children’s missed school. That history came back to haunt her 2019 campaign.
I was the Attorney General in California before I was elected as a senator and before I was vice president. On the day after Biden endorsed her to be his running mate, Harris told campaign staffers in Delaware that she was a courtroom prosecutor before that.
“It’s all about getting those conviction rates up, but at the same time thinking about what recidivism rates are and using data to manage reform and accountability,” said Chiu, now San Francisco City Attorney.
David Chiu, who was in Harris’ “kitchen cabinet” at the time, said that she rejected the idea that law enforcement officials had to be soft on crime. Instead, she wanted to be “smart” on crime, he said.
She will tell more conservative audiences that she is not soft on crime. “But her message to progressive audiences will be that her prosecutorial experiences give her unique expertise on the problems in the system, and how to fix them.”
The way in which some progressives and conservatives view our criminal legal system has been changed by the prosecution of Donald Trump. Many people on the left want to prosecute and hold Donald Trump accountable.
This time around, though, Butler said Harris’ history of being a prosecutor might be perceived by voters differently — because voters’ perceptions of public safety, criminal justice and Trump have changed.
When Harris ran for president, her campaign was centered on her career as a prosecutor. She would introduce herself in court by saying her slogan was for the people.
“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds — predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So, hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type,” Harris said, in a line that has become the centerpiece of her whirlwind campaign.
Harris Honeymoon: A Game for the Presumptive Vice-Presidential Resummation after a Biden Term
The campaign chair for the president appeared on television two days before Biden decided to step back from running for a second term.
But about 72 hours later, it was instead Vice President Harris making that same argument — and reviving a case she had made in 2019, when she ran in a crowded Democratic field seeking the nomination that year.
The first is the party unity she enjoys by virtue of being the presumptive nominee without having had to endure a bruising Democratic primary battle. I’ve described this as the equivalent of a video game cheat code that lets you skip past some difficult but tedious early levels on the way to directly fighting the big bad boss at the end of the game. Harris didn’t have to spend the last year getting pummeled by, or trying to pummel, Democratic presidential rivals, almost certainly including some of the very Democrats who are now under consideration to be her vice-presidential nominee. Ms. Harris is going to have to deal with issues like border security, crime and policing that are not currently part of the Democratic Party.
Tony Fabrizio, a top adviser to all of Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns, knows that you have differing opinions about him. He was the one who saw the path to a Trump victory over Clinton. It is wise to take polling memos with a grain of salt because they are usually leaked to drive a preferred narrative, but when Mr. Fabrizio puts one out I take it seriously.
After last week’s warning about a Harris Honeymoon, I knew it was time for the polls to show what the public thought the Trump campaign was seeing. The recent New York Times/Siena College poll shows that the race is a one point difference between Mr. Trump and Vice President Harris, a major shift from a prior Times/Siena poll showing him ahead of the President.
