I don’t know if this will be a long list, or a short one. but I like both Ted Leiu and Adam Schiff, and I know both worked as prosecutors. I’m wondering if prosecutors have more of a take no shit attitude.
Kamala Harris did too. Doug Jones. John Kerry.
As a career it identifies them by definitive decisions with simple results: some bad people locked up. It shows they can argue a case convincingly.
Whether that transfers readily to political decisions is another matter: prosecutors aren’t much in the business of looking for compromises most parties feel reasonably OK about.
Amy Klobuchar was Hennepin County (Minneapolis etc.) Attorney.
Kirsten Gillibrand worked as a government lawyer under HUD Secretary Cuomo.
Jerry Brown served as California Attorney General.
Eric Swalwell worked as an Alameda County (CA) deputy district attorney.
Claire McCaskill was a prosecutor in Missouri before being elected to the Senate. Since she was defeated in 2018, it seems there’s an expiration date for that credential.
RI Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was both a federal prosecutor and the RI Attorney General.
Imagine if he ran and won? We’d have references everywhere to “The Whitehouse White House”.
It seems like a fairly common path to congress (for both parties) is to first serve as a state or federal prosecutor. Maybe it’s about making community connections. I don’t know. I guess it makes for a good campaign ad.
But, just skimming the Wikipedia entries for the 45 Democratic Senators:
Blumenthal - federal prosecutor (political)
Cortez Masto - Federal prosecutor
Harris - State prosecutor
Jones - federal prosecutor (both career and political)
Leahy - state prosecutor (elected)
Udall - federal prosecutor
Whitehouse - federal (political)
Also: Klobuchar was elected county attorney, which here would not be a “prosecutor” but their website is unclear.
So, it’s a decent list.
His campaign slogn could be: “He’s so good we don’t care that he’s from the smallest state in the union.,”