Kamala Harris does her big town hall. Howard Schultz preps his presidential run and Democrats talk up

Marxism. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show. Oh man, a lot of news coming your way.

And also, a lot of me blowing my nose because this cold just will not leave. We'll get to all

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in the Democratic Party. It's amazing to watch as members of the media label random members of

the Democratic coalition centrist. So they've been making the claim that Kamala Harris,

the senator from California, is the new centrist. She's a centrist voice as opposed to Elizabeth

Warren and Bernie Sanders. Now, the reason that they are saying that is because she had a history as a prosecutor. So that means that naturally, she is more

centrist than a lot of the other Democratic members of the coalition. The only problem is she

isn't. And she served as a prosecutor because she felt that would be a gateway to higher office.

But the reality is that Kamala Harris is every bit the radical of Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders or Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez or anybody else who you think is the face of the radical Democratic Party. Now, she's getting hit from the left today. And the reason she's being hit from the left is, again, because of that prosecutorial career. There's a clip going around of her speaking at

the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, a really nice group of folks. And it's a clip of her back

when she was Attorney General of the state of California talking about how she used to prosecute

the parents of kids who were truant. Here's what she said. She said, I believe a child going

without an education is tantamount to a crime. So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy. Well, that was a little controversial in San Francisco, and you can actually see her laughing in the tape. She says, frankly, my staff went bananas. They were very concerned at the time. We didn't know at the time whether I was going to have an opponent in my reelection race. This is a serious issue. I've got a little capital. I'm going to spend some of it. And this is what we did. We recognized as a prosecutor in law enforcement. I have a huge stick. The school system has a carrot. Let's work in tandem around our collective, objective, and goal, which is to get those kids in school. Well, the internet was going nuts over this last night, because the suggestion is that Kamala Harris was going after parents of kids who are truant. And really, what you require

is a social worker in these cases. You don't require a police officer. It's kind of fascinating to watch

as the left resonates to Kamala Harris despite her record in this particular area. It is also

important to note that when she says something should be

tantamount to a crime, you as attorney general do not get to decide what is and is not a crime.

You do not get to decide that everything you don't like is now enforceable by the police.

If you do, that makes you a centralized government control tyrant, and Kamala Harris does

have those tendencies. But all of that is being

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