The American people will have to reconsider the position of the Democratic Party on defending the police after sen. Kamala Harris has been added to the ticket as Joe Biden’s running mate, former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker said Thursday.
“It’s very interesting how it turns out that sen. Harris, sort of on the issue of law enforcement, has her finger in the wind,” Whitaker told Fox & Friends, referring to some conflicting positions of the former Democratic presidential candidate.
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Harris, who was officially announced as Biden’s running mate on Tuesday, has shifted her stance on multiple issues during her entire time in public life, beginning as a local prosecutor in the early 2000s.
Those positions are now back in the spotlight as the Trump campaign tries to brand them as “false” and the newly named Democratic ticket prepares to present a united and consistent message that goes into next week’s national convention .
Harris’ changes of heart rate issues like the government should abolish private health insurance, or recreational marijuana should be legalized and more. Such links have in the past invited criticism from both the left and the right – with Republicans marking themselves as radical and members of the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party accusing them of not being liberal enough.
Whitaker said Harris wrote a book that “suggested” that more of a police presence keeps people safe and protects their freedoms.
“Now in 2020, she praises, for example, when Los Angeles reprogrammed or cut the multi-million dollar police budget. “I think this is one of the things that the American people will have to take seriously,” Harris said.
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“At the moment we are seeing too much pandering to the radical left, to the violent extremists who are really torturing and plaguing many of our big cities. I would expect this ticket for the Democrats to take money from the police and make us less safe. ‘
