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 delegate so that train has left. the 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 soundbites

than the few seconds you usually get, you 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 $1 billion campaign contribution. Oh. Oh. During the foreclosure crisis, I took on the big Wall Street banks and won 20 billion dollars for California families.

Holding those banks accountable for fraud.

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