(RepublicanNews.org) – Having secured the official endorsement of a majority of Democratic delegates shortly before the party’s National Convention is due to take place, Vice President Kamala Harris looks set to become the new Democratic presidential nominee. She received a huge boost in campaign donations following Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race, and according to a recent poll, has won over the majority of her party’s voters.
While Harris has been quick to publicly celebrate this recent wave of success and support, her career path has been an arguably rocky one. Speaking to a crowd after Biden’s withdrawal, she was keen to position herself as a crusader for justice by drawing on her experience as a prosecutor and as California’s Attorney General. She contrasted her apparent fight against crime to her Republican rival Donald Trump’s own experiences as a defendant in a series of recent court cases.
Despite her image of herself as a champion of the law, her time as California’s Attorney General was tainted by accusations that her office defended convictions won by prosecutors who had withheld evidence, used false confessions, and even committed perjury. Several judges criticized her office, with one federal appeals judge saying that Harris needed to be made to understand “the gravity of the situation” in 2015 when she came under heavy pressure to tackle such misconduct.
Harris has also been accused of bowing to donor pressure and prioritizing her career over justice. President of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Schweizer, says that Harris dropped a number of sexual abuse cases that would have involved the church and several other important institutions. Investigative journalist Schweizer says that in 2003 when Harris replaced Terence Hallinan as San Fransisco’s District Attorney, she dropped the abuse cases that Hallinan had been working on. This left San Fransisco as the only city amongst the 50 largest in the U.S. not to prosecute a single case relating to the church abuse scandal of the time.
She has also been lambasted for her actions, or lack thereof, during her tenure as vice president. After Pres. Biden rolled back several measures enacted by the Trump administration designed to prevent illegal immigration, he assigned Harris the task of dealing with the southern border. It took several months before she visited the U.S.-Mexico border, by which time the U.S. had seen an influx of tens of thousands of illegal migrants. The U.S. has continued to experience record levels of illegal migration throughout the Biden-Harris presidency.
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