Kamala Harris spent her presidential campaign trying to prove to her party she was a bona fide, enthusiastic liberal – not the “top cop” the former prosecutor called herself during her time as California’s attorney general.
Democrats nominated Joe Biden instead. Now that she’s the party’s vice presidential candidate, Republicans are working to redefine her again – as a mean-spirited radical leftist eager to grow the government while shrinking police forces.
Harris has been prominent in the national spotlight now for only about eight weeks. In a CNN poll in June, 2019, 36% of voters had never heard of her or had no opinion.
In the eight weeks since she’s been on the Democratic ticket, Trump has called Harris “vicious” and “extraordinarily nasty.” Republican Party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Harris “applauds defunding of the police.” Harris wants to put “bureaucrats in charge of the nation’s health care system,” said GOP national spokeswoman Liz Harrington.
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