Harris is branding herself as a "progressive prosecutor" poised to take on Trump.
Sen. Harris has risen to second place in a series of recent polls, most notably in her home state of California.
"People like Kamala Harris need to be held accountable for their record, not for something that she said or did 50 years ago".
In a visceral takedown, Gabbard charged Harris "put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana". Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks during the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit on July 31, 2019.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Remarkably, one of the more electrifying moments of the evening involved Hawaii Congreswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a Caucasian who is a self-professed Hindu -American, ambushing Harris, whose mother was a South Indian Tamilian, over her record as California's attorney general and how it had negatively impacted black and brown people across the country.
"When I was in the position on having to decide whether or not to seek a death penalty on cases I prosecuted I made a very hard decision that was not popular-to not seek the death penalty.and I am proud of those decisions", she asserted.
After Harris' defense of her tenure as "significantly reforming the criminal justice system" in her state, making it a "national model", Gabbard continued the tongue lashing.
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"This is the work I've done". For instance, she asked Cooper, why does Gabbard refuse to call Syrian President Bashar al-Assad what he is - a war criminal?
"The Republicans like her, and I think she's a real Trojan horse here because when you look at her record, in particular, she's apologized for it but she was very anti-LGBTQ community", co-host Sunny Hostin said Thursday on The View.
Biden's staff and surrogates told reporters after the debate that the vice president's record and remarks were being mischaracterized, and that Biden would continue to push back if those attacks continued.
Defending her actions as attorney general, Harris said, "My entire career I have been opposed, personally opposed to the death penalty and that has never changed". And one of the first things she did is she said, "Bring me those files, and we're going to make sure that all of these charges are dismissed against these workers". But Biden took his shots at Harris' health care plan - a "Medicare for All" plan that allows some private insurance participation - saying it would force some workers to give up health insurance plans they like and may have made concessions in union negotiations to get.
"Mr. Vice President, you're dipping into the Kool-Aid and you don't even know the flavor", Booker said. "Join us to ensure she makes the donation requirement for the September debate". "That is why we created initiatives that were about re-entering former offenders and getting them counselling", she said. No, no, I hear you.
Booker acknowledged that he "inherited a police force with massive problems" but pointed his finger back at Biden for his support then for the crime bill.
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