Vice President Kamala Harris has embraced her prosecutorial past during the 2024 campaign and ripped her opponent as a convicted felon.first-ever run for a major office back in 2003, the future vice president was mired in controversy for inflating her prosecutorial record and separately ran afoul of campaign finance rules.
“Ms. Harris, why does your information, which is still published, say that you tried hundreds of serious felonies? I think that’s misleading. I think that’s disingenuous. I think that shows that you are incapable of leadership and you’re not to be trusted,” Fazio then asked.The future vice president declined to rebut Fazio’s central point about the inflated figure, but countered that she had shown “leadership” throughout her career as a prosecutor.
Ultimately, Fazio’s swipe at Harris failed to cripple her candidacy at the time. She went on to edge him out in the first round of voting and then went on to defeat incumbent District Attorney, Terence Hallinan.Hallinan had explained in that debate that Harris worked for his office for about “a year-and-a-half.”
Back in January of that year, Harris had signed a commitment to stay within a $211,000 spending limit, but her campaignnoted that