It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. So you've probably heard that Vice

President Kamala Harris has already gotten the public endorsement of a majority of the

approximately 4,700 Democratic

Convention Delegates, so that train has left the station, and she will be the nominee. Before President

Biden ended his campaign, and this all happened, one of the things people had been projecting

in the event that Harris became the nominee was that she would contrast her

background as a prosecutor to Donald Trump's increasingly long rap sheet as a criminal or

evil-doer as found by civil courts. And in her first campaign speech yesterday, the vice president

wasted no time in pursuing that path. Now, since we have the luxury of time on this show compared to the newscasts,

we can play longer sound bites than the few seconds you usually get.

We sometimes take that opportunity.

So here is a minute and a half of Vice President Harris speaking yesterday

and citing that contrast with a list of specifics.

As a young prosecutor when I was in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office in California,

I specialized in cases involving sexual abuse. Donald Trump was found liable by a jury for committing

sexual abuse.

As Attorney General of California, I took on one of our country's largest for-profit

colleges and put it out of business.

Donald Trump ran a for-profit college, Trump University, that was forced to pay $25 million to the students it

scammed. As district attorney, to go after polluters, I created one of the first environmental

justice units in our nation. Donald Trump stood in Marlago and told big oil lobbyists he would

do their bidding for a one billion dollar campaign contribution.

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