"Smart On Crime": How VP Harris's Record As Prosecutor Could Impact The 2024 Race
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🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Almost as soon as Vice President Kamala Harris jumped into the 2024 presidential race, she found a message to set her apart from former President Donald Trump: her record as a prosecutor. It’s a compelling narrative, especially given Trump’s status as a convicted felon. But when she ran for president in 2020, then-candidate Harris aligned herself with the recent wave of “progressive prosecutors” moving away from the tough-on-crime policies that helped create mass incarceration. And it’s a label Republicans are trying to use against her and other Democrats in this election. Jamiles Lartey, staff writer for the Marshall Project, talks about the backlash to the progressive prosecutor movement and how it’s shaping the 2024 election.
And in headlines: Former President Donald Trump told a group of supporters that if they elect him in November they “won’t have to vote anymore,” Israel launched counterstrikes deep into Lebanon, and millions of West Coast residents are under air quality warnings as firefighters battle California’s biggest wildfire of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, July 29th, I'm Trayvon |
| 0:03.7 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day. |
| 0:08.1 | The podcast that doesn't want another Avengers movie. |
| 0:11.2 | Listen, with less than a hundred days to go before the election, ain't nobody got time for |
| 0:16.5 | Robert Downey Jr. Okay? |
| 0:18.7 | Tony Stark, rest in peace. |
| 0:21.2 | spoiler alert. |
| 0:22.2 | If you haven't seen that movie, he does die. |
| 0:25.0 | On today's show, former President Trump urges conservative Christians to get out and vote |
| 0:36.2 | and promises if he wins that they won't have to do it again. |
| 0:40.4 | Plus, Canada's women's soccer coach gets suspended at the Paris Olympics for an alleged cheating scandal. |
| 0:46.0 | But first, almost as soon as Vice President Kamala Harris jumped into the 2024 presidential race, |
| 0:51.0 | she found a message to set her apart from former President Donald Trump, her record as a prosecutor. |
| 0:57.0 | Here she is at a campaign rally last Tuesday talking about serving as California Attorney General |
| 1:01.5 | and San Francisco District Attorney. |
| 1:04.0 | In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. |
| 1:11.0 | Predators who |
| 1:15.0 | fraudsters who ripped off consumers, |
| 1:20.0 | cheaters, cheaters, who broke the rules for their own game. |
| 1:27.0 | So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type. |
| 1:33.0 | The audience in that clip is just incredible. |
| 1:35.2 | You know it's a whole bunch of black aunties, okay? |
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