Vice President Harris is leaning into her time as a prosecutor and her law enforcement background in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
Harris has sought to appeal to undecided voters in key swing states by touting her prosecutorial chops. Last week, in an interview on CBS’s "60 Minutes," Harris discussed being a gun owner, revealing she's had one for “quite some time.”
And during a lengthy discussion with shock jock Howard Stern, the vice president divulged, “I have put a lot of people in jail.”
From the official start of her campaign in July, the Harris campaign framed the race as the prosecutor versus the “convicted felon,” former President Trump.
As Harris begins to make her closing arguments, she is spending more and more time highlighting the law enforcement parts of her background, particularly as she seeks to peel off some GOP voters from Trump in a tight race.
Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau said it’s an effective strategy to “counter what some voters assume she is.”
“Republicans have created this narrative of a wild-eyed crazy liberal from California,” Mollineau said. “This is her filling in pieces of her bio and presenting who........