Before George Soros and progressive Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars across the country to elect district attorneys, their anti-law enforcement agenda started in California.
In 2003, a young, power-hungry assistant district attorney named Kamala Harris primaried her boss and was elected Oakland County district attorney. Just four months into office, as a new DA she would reduce charges of a gang member who shot and killed a police officer. Time and time again, Harris showed a soft-on-crime approach.
California has long held a brand of politics apart from the rest of the country, a place where people accept it as a tradeoff for sunshine, movie stardom, or fortunes in Silicon Valley.
Yet over the past two decades, this dangerous and radical strain of progressivism has been exported across the country.
In New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and even here in North Carolina, radical district attorneys thumb their noses at enforcing the law and instead make excuses for those who willingly commit criminal acts.
One such district attorney, Durham’s Satana Deberry, took on an incumbent Democrat while promising to waive unpaid fines, declining to prosecute drug felonies and ending cash bail policies. She won — and made good on her pro-criminal campaign promises.
The dangerous movement that started with Kamala Harris has gone national. At what point will voters say prioritize public safety, not criminals?
In Charlotte, the state’s largest city, the homicide rate is at its highest level in 21 years. The first six months of 2024 have seen 61 people murdered in the Queen City. This also includes the brutal killing of four police officers in the city in April.
Our cities are unsafe with far-left, radical liberal policies directly attributed to Harris.
As a U.S. senator, Harris went even further, proudly proclaiming that illegal immigration was not a crime.
This is why her work as “Border Czar” has produced a crisis of unprecedented proportions at the Southern border. Harris’ willingness to turn a blind eye to terrorists, and drug and human trafficking sends a dangerously unsettling message — America welcomes criminal behavior.
The past four years have seen a callous administration, led at the top by Kamala Harris, refusing to take responsibility for the hundreds of crimes committed by migrants. Mothers raped and murdered. Shooting sprees. Not even knowing how many individuals on the terror watch list have crossed the open border.
The central question now is whether North Carolina, and the nation, will stand up to those who champion soft-on-crime, pro-criminal policies.
Even CNN has reported Harris voiced support for “defund the police” in June 2020, shortly before joining Joe Biden as the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee.
Harris said they “rightly” called out the amount of money spent on police departments going even a step further, saying that more police did not equate to more public safety.
In her own words, she said, “We need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities.” She then accused cities of “militarizing police” but “defunding public schools.”
She went on to tell one group that as California’s AG, she significantly reformed their criminal justice system and became a national model.
“I’m proud of that work,” she said.
That confirms hers is a record — and an origin story — she and Democrats cannot run from.
Kamala Harris cannot be elected president. She is the origin story of radical, out-of-touch, dangerously liberal policies. Nothing less than the safety and security of our country is at stake in November.
Jason Simmons is chairman of the North Carolina GOP.