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Criminal justice advocacy groups are asking Vice President Kamala Harris to check herself when calling former President Trump a criminal.
More than 160 justice reform groups sent out an open letter urging her not to call former President Trump a "criminal" and a "felon.”
The letter says, "First, we believe you have been and will be a criminal justice reform leader. [But] also, words like ‘criminal’ and ‘felon’ paint with a broad brush that stains more than 70 million Americans with criminal records, including the 1 in 3 Black men who have felony convictions."
The former San Francisco district attorney and California state attorney general has repeatedly cast herself as an aggressive prosecutor who knows Trump's "type" after his recent felony conviction in New York City.