Hey everyone.

Welcome.

Welcome to talking feds. I'm Harry Littman and we are live from Austin Texas where we are

taping a special podcast in front of a live crowd at the always robust and happening Texas Tribune

Festival. Okay so to set this up a little as a clever guy, well actually it was me,

wrote, but still, the presidential campaign is shaping up

to be a tale of two prosecutors, both named Kamala Harris.

So in her still young campaign, Harris has led with that persona,

and more specifically, the character of a tough on crime

prosecutor, a phrase that speaker after speaker

used at the DNC conference, if any of you were watching that.

At the same time, the Trump campaign, which I think it's fair to say has been

less than sure-footed or trying to find its best approach to talking about

Arkansas has tried to go after and I think will try to go after

who persecutorial record and experience both Trump and J.D. Vance have portrayed

her as weak on crime and as a champion of supposedly out of the mainstream

proposals like abolition of cash, bail, and the like.

And you know, these charges can prove sticky as we all learned if not before in the

Willie Horton era with Leatwater and so the rhetorical battle over Harris's identity as a prosecutor figures to shape the

campaign's trajectory, maybe even the election's outcome.

So does her record present vulnerabilities that the

Trump campaign can exploit? How can she best blunt or answer those attacks? And

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