With the 2024 election fast approaching, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has made her background as a criminal prosecutor a central talking point for her campaign, but the vice president has a history of supporting law enforcement only when it’s politically expedient.
Harris’ stance on crime seems to swing from doggedly going after criminals to helping bail out rioters and railing against the police whenever the political winds shift. Now, Harris’ sudden ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket has her promoting a tough-on-crime image again.
In her first campaign appearance since President Joe Biden dropped out, Harris boasted to her supporters she had taken on “predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules. So hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type.”
“Before I was elected vice president, before I was elected United States senator, I was elected attorney general,” she said. “Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds.”
Leftists are starting to embrace the title “Kamala the Cop,” a designation the Harris campaign might have been quick to dismiss — or even denounce — less than four years ago.
Between 2004 and 2011, Harris served as San Francisco’s District Attorney. She then became California’s Attorney General until 2017.
“As a career prosecutor, I have always known one central truth: the public and law enforcement need each other to keep our communities safe,” Harris said in 2015.
Though she
