Fox News Pol­i­tics: It’s Who You Know

Wel­come to Fox News’ Pol­i­tics newslet­ter with the lat­est polit­i­cal news from Wash­ing­ton, D.C. and updates from the 2024 cam­paign trail. What’s happening…-Report reveals 100 migrants on ter­ror watch­list released under Biden…-Harris hours away from VP announcement…-Trump shares call with Zucker­berg after assas­si­na­tion attempt…Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris is plac­ing her expe­ri­ence as a “top cop” front and cen­ter as she looks to “pros­e­cute” her GOP oppo­nent and press her case for why she should win the pres­i­den­cy in Novem­ber – but the legal career she’s lean­ing on is “devoid” of achieve­ment, crit­ics say, and she owes much of her suc­cess to networking.Her near­ly three-decade rise up the ranks has includ­ed numer­ous bumps along the way – includ­ing fail­ing her bar exam on the first try in 1989.Civil rights attor­ney Leo Ter­rell, who passed the Cal­i­for­nia bar the same year on his first try, described Har­ris as a “polit­i­cal oppor­tunist” who was in “the right posi­tion, the right place” at the right time. By mak­ing cal­cu­lat­ed moves, she was able to leap from dis­trict attor­ney to attor­ney gen­er­al to sen­a­tor to vice pres­i­dent – and per­haps beyond.“Networking,” Ter­rell said, is what cat­a­pult­ed Har­ris’ career. “Let’s face it, she got to her posi­tion not on aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment. She got to her posi­tion as San Fran­cis­co dis­trict attor­ney, Cal­i­for­nia attor­ney gen­er­al, U.S. sen­a­tor and vice pres­i­dent, because of networking.”…Read more‘HAPPENS EVERY YEAR’: Close to 60K arrests at bor­der …