Harris can’t run for president as a prosecutor

Vice President Kamala Harris can’t run for president using her prosecutor image because she herself abandoned that image to be a Black Lives Matter darling.

Harris and her media allies are trying to paint her as a hard-nosed prosecutor who is therefore immune from attacks on just how pro-criminal the Democratic Party has become. To hear Harris tell it, she is a prosecutor at heart, and former President Donald Trump is a criminal. The choice couldn’t get any easier than that.

The problem with this, for starters, is that Harris’s record as a prosecutor is spotty. Her first instinct when a police officer was shot and killed shortly after she became San Francisco’s district attorney was to announce that the killer should not face the death penalty. Her idea of being tough on crime included threatening to jail parents of truant children (and boasting about it) and locking up people for marijuana (and then laughing about using marijuana herself).

Even putting aside debates about the quality of Harris’s prosecutorial record, the fact is that she ran from this prosecutor image as part of the Democratic Party’s embrace of Black Lives Matter. During the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis in 2020, Harris asked her supporters to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which was using that money to pay bail for rioters. The group also used that money to free a twice-convicted rapist, accused murderers, and people who later went on to commit murders.

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Whether Harris knew her decision would have those effects is not as relevant as why she did it. Harris boosted a bail fund organization in response to violent riots where rioters burned down, looted, and vandalized businesses. Harris’s impulse upon seeing violent riots was to take the side of the rioters and help get them out of jail as soon as possible. How, exactly, does that mesh with her image as a prosecutor?

Harris can’t run honestly or effectively as a prosecutor because she is one of the most inauthentic politicians on the national stage and falls into line with whatever the orthodoxy of her left-wing base is at the time. Harris shattered whatever remained of her tough prosecutor image in 2020, and she isn’t going to be able to revive it so easily for yet another presidential campaign.