Season 3 · Episode 3
Is It Time For Kamala Harris To Reckon With Her Right-Wing Past?
Will Sen. Harris’s record as a prosecutor hurt her presidential chances given the democratic base’s leftward shift on criminal justice and civil liberties?
Deconstructed · The Intercept
January 31, 201928m 41sExplicit
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Show Notes
Since getting elected to the senate, Kamala Harris has become one of the most progressive voices in the chamber, supporting Medicare for All and debt-free college. However, as California attorney general, Harris opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate shootings involving police officers, and threatened to imprison the parents of truant children. When questioned about her record at a CNN Town Hall this week, Sen. Harris evaded the questions and argued instead that her record has been “consistent.” Mehdi Hasan is joined by Jamilah King of Mother Jones and Lara Bazelon, a professor law at the University of San Francisco, to discuss Sen. Harris’s record and whether it will hurt her presidential chances.
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