“Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president. But I’m deeply concerned about this record.”

The speaker was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a long-shot presidential contender who had already made herself something of a pariah in Democratic politics. In a prior Democratic presidential debate a month earlier, Sen. Kamala Harris had broken out with a couple of viral moments — among other things heavily insinuating that former Vice President Joe Biden was a racist for working with segregationist senators to oppose busing. (This mau-mauing would ultimately pay off in ways that even she could not have possibly anticipated.)
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