Alyssa Farah Griffin Offers Receipts After Sunny Hostin Declares Kamala Harris Is ‘Moderate’ Against Far-Left Attacks

Sunny Hostin dismissed any criticisms that Vice President Kamala Harris is a “leftist,” declaring the former prosecutor is a “moderate” in a debate on The View .

Hostin pushed back on critics who are describing Harris as far left and claimed that “prosecutors are not really leftist.”

“I think the Republicans are trying to frame her as this deep leftist…she’s a former prosecutor. She’s not only a former prosecutor, she was the [attorney general] of the largest Department of Justice in the country, other than the real Department of Justice. Prosecutors are not really leftist,” Hostin, an attorney, said. “They put people in jail for a living, okay? They’re pretty moderate… I know the vice president personally. She’s moderate.”

Alyssa Farah Griffin , a former communications official in former President Donald Trump’s administration, agreed that Harris is selling a “centrist” Democratic message with her current presidential campaign, but cited her rhetoric in 2020 ahead of joining President Joe Biden’s campaign as what most critics have an issue with.

“One example was this is the moment of George Floyd , the country’s torn apart, and she put out a statement saying she wanted to bail out people who were protesting in the streets. So people took that a certain way, they felt like she was running to resonate in that primary unlike someone like Biden would,” Griffin said.

Griffin is referring to Harris tweeting out support for the controversial Minnesota Freedom Fund in 2020. The organization was working on bailing out people arrested during Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd dying in police custody.

Harris’s rhetoric around the Defund the Police movement, which spiked in popularity following Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, has also come under question. In a June 2020 radio interview that resurfaced this week, Harris can be heard praising the Defund the Police movement. It was only months later she joined Biden’s campaign and the pair denounced the movement.

“I think the point is that in 2020 she ran, in a moment, where she ran to the left,” Griffin said.

Hostin dismissed any rhetoric from Harris in 2020, chalking it up to just smart politics because running as a “law and order candidate” in 2020 would have been a “bad move.”

“She’s leaning into who she really is. If you really want to talk about it, after George Floyd people were angry about law enforcement. People were upset with prosecutors. They were upset with police officers. They were upset with policing in this country. So to run as a law and order candidate in 2020 would have been a bad move,” Hostin said.

The View co-host declared that Harris’s current campaign actually reflects “who she really is” while the 2020 campaign did not.

“What she’s doing now is who she really is and I think that’s why it’s resonating,” she said.

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