Kamala Harris' far-left record dismissed as 'accusations,' attacks from Trump and GOP: 'She's moderate'

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Vice President Harris' more liberal stances during her 2020 presidential campaign have been framed by members of the media as just accusations from the Republican Party and former President Trump, as she's poised to take President Biden's spot at the top of the Democratic ticket.

"I think the Republicans are trying to frame her as this deep leftist. She’s a former prosecutor. She’s not only a former prosecutor, she was the AG of the largest Department of Justice in the country, other than the real Department of Justice. Prosecutors are not really leftist," Sunny Hostin, a liberal co-host on "The View," said Friday. "They put people in jail for a living, okay? They’re pretty moderate. I know the vice president personally. She’s moderate."

While running for president in 2019, Harris declared there was "no question" she favored banning fracking. Harris also supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which helped bail Black Lives Matter rioters out of jail in 2020.

Hostin continued to defend Harris and said running as a "law and order candidate" in 2020 would not have been a good idea, insisting that she was leaning more into who she really is now.

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Other outlets framed Harris' previous positions as simply attacks coming from her opponents.

The New York Times reported on Monday that the GOP was