The vice president leaned into her past as a prosecutor in attacking Trump in the 2020 primary. Will she do the same now?
in her first presidential bid in 2020 — a message that attracted little support in the Democratic primary as Harris, short on money, ended her campaign before the first votes were cast.
“This is someone who can clearly and forcefully articulate the case against Trump,” said Jim Margolis, a senior adviser to Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign. “That’s the prosecutor in her. And she’s someone who in a debate can move with the conversation and strike back hard — no notecards, just brainpower.
“He’s tearing us apart — she’ll bring us together,” the ad concludes, noting that Harris is “in every possible way the anti-Trump.” “Her ability to unpack an argument and understand both sides of an argument and then reconstruct it in a way that the average person can understand is an incredible skill set to have,” said Ashley Etienne, who served as communications director to Harris in the vice president’s office. “That was the benefit of her being a former prosecutor and how that translated to the job of vice president.”Appearing on CBS’s “Face The Nation” this month, Sen.
Harris allies say that her image as prosecutor should be viewed broadly, and that they expect Harris to forcefully make the case on issues including reproductive rights — an area where Biden, an Irish Catholic, was more reticent — and an unchecked Supreme Court stocked with three Trump appointees.“She’s certainly doing that regarding reproductive rights,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono .
At the time, Trump described Harris’s questioning of Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing as “nasty,” saying she did “a horrible thing.”“I got such a big kick out of watching Bill Barr squirm,” said Hirono, who served on the Judiciary Committee with Harris. “She’s very persistent. You can see the prosecutor in her. She’s very smart, she’s funny, she’s caring, she’s witty.”
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