President Biden’s selfless decision to drop out of the presidential race has paved the way for Kamala Harris to move forward. She quickly seized the opportunity and within 48 hours, had secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination, raised millions and ripped into Donald Trump.

The vice president went after the former president with prosecutorial zeal in a speech at her national campaign headquarters. She told supporters, “I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type.”

The presidential race should be a clear and compelling contrast between a seasoned prosecutor and a convicted felon. Harris served as the Alameda County (Oakland and suburbs) district attorney and California attorney general before she was elected to the U.S. Senate. That experience has served her well. Her comment about Trump demonstrates that her instinct is to go straight for the jugular. Exactly, the quality necessary to defeat the former failed president.

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