The History of a Prosecutor: She Leaning into the History of Trump’s Charged Crime, as Intended As Revisited
Some of her efforts were criticized, particularly her work to cut down on the occurrence of kids skipping school. That history came back to haunt her 2019 campaign.
“Before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I’ve mentioned, of California. And before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris said to campaign staffers in Wilmington, Del., on the day after Biden endorsed her to take his place at the top of the Democratic ticket.
“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 was part of Harris’ kitchen cabinet, and he said that she wasn’t a fan of the idea of law enforcement officials being soft on crime. She was interested in being smarter on crime, he said.
“Her message to more conservative audiences will be that her policies as district attorney and California state attorney general demonstrate that she’s not soft on crime,” Butler said. Her message to progressive audiences will be that her prosecutorial experiences give her insight into the issues in the system and how to fix them.
He said that the prosecution of Trump has changed the way that some progressives and conservatives think about our criminal legal system. “Now, a lot of people that are on the left are all-in on prosecuting, holding Donald Trump accountable.”
Voters perception of public safety, criminal justice and Trump have changed, and so is the history of Harris being a prosecutor.
When Harris first ran for president, she focused her campaign on her career as a prosecutor. Her slogan was “for the people,” which is how Harris would introduce herself in court.
predator who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheated and broke rules for their own gain were just a few of the perpetrators I took on in those roles. Harris said she was aware of Trump’s type in a line that has become the centerpiece of her campaign.
Source: Harris is leaning into her history as a prosecutor. It’s not the first time
A Video Game Game for Failing to Win: Reviving the Case of J O’Malley Dillon During the 2020 Presidential Election
Two days before President Biden announced he would step back from his push for a second term, his campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, appeared on television, insisting the president would stay in the race.
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. It was not necessary for Harris to attack her rivals for the presidency in the last year because they are now under consideration to be her vice-presidential nominee. While some of the out-of-the-mainstream views she espoused during her unsuccessful 2020 presidential run will no doubt follow her in this election, Ms. Harris benefits greatly from not yet having had to renavigate several issues that divide the Democratic Party these days, including border security, crime and policing, and the war in Gaza.
Tony Fabrizio is a top adviser to all of Donald Trump’s campaigns and knows his business. He saw a path to a Trump victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 that others didn’t. It is reasonable to take polling memos with a grain of salt, but I take them seriously when Mr. Fabrizio puts one out.
This is, to use the parlance of our time, a vibe shift. The Republicans felt a great deal of joy about the election coming out of their convention in Milwaukee. And, indeed, before the shake-up atop the Democratic ticket, most voters said that they thought Mr. Trump would win November, according to a July poll by Echelon Insights, where I am a founding partner. With around $200 million raised in a week, it would not be a surprise to see a different result if voters were asked that question again.