Prosecutor vs. convicted felon: How Democrats believe Harris' background changes the election

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50% : The other two cases remain in limbo following a Supreme Court ruling in July that Trump has immunity for some of his conduct as president.
42% : Harris' prosecutorial skills, Democrats believe, will give her another big advantage in a head-to-head contest with Trump.
32% : Last year, a jury in a civil case found Trump liable for sexually assaulting magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996 and awarded her $5 million.
29% : Trump also has pleaded not guilty to multiple felony counts in three other cases involving his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents after he left office.
27% : If anything, Harris, 59, could enable Democrats to turn the age issue against the Republicans and Trump, who is 78 and now the oldest presidential nominee in history.
27% : Trump is unlikely to go to trial on any of the remaining cases before the November election.
23% : Inside KamalaHQ: How Harris quickly began plotting campaign after Biden's shocking exitIn the presidential campaign, Harris' background prosecuting sexual predators will allow Democrats to draw a sharp contrast with Trump, who boasted in a television interview in 2005 that he liked to grab women by their genitalia.
21% : "She has the prosecutorial chops to make mincemeat of the mendacious malefactor Trump," said Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn.Harris foreshadowed the line of attack she's preparing against Trump during a meeting with her campaign staff in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday.
19% : Trump, who served four years as president until he was defeated by Biden in 2020, became the first former president to be convicted of a crime when a New York jury found him guilty in May of 34 felony counts involving hush money payments to a former porn star with whom he allegedly had an extramarital affair.
19% : In a separate case, a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages earlier this year after concluding that Trump defamed her by claiming she lied about a sexual encounter with him at a Manhattan department store.Harris' experience as a prosecutor and Trump's felony conviction also will give the Democrats an opening to counter the GOP argument that it is the party of law and order, Wright said.
17% : The race to become the most powerful leader in the world is now coming down to this:Democrats, who worried that questions about Biden's advanced age and mental acuity would cause him to lose to Trump, sense that if Harris becomes their nominee, they have a chance to shift the focus back to Trump and his complicated tangle of legal problems.
11% : "Her experiences as an attorney general, as a prosecutor, both lend strong credence to making the case against Trump that he is just too criminal, too corrupt, and doesn't share the values we need in a president," said Wright, a veteran political strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton's and Al Gore's presidential campaigns.

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