Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is not only running against an ever-growing field of fellow Democrats for the 2020 presidential election, but also against what may prove to be a couple of far more formidable opponents: her own records as the district attorney of San Francisco and later the attorney general of California.

What’s problematic for Harris is that the people who have the most problems with her records are the very progressives she seeks to secure as her base.

Just days before Harris’ campaign kickoff in January, The New York Times ran an opinion piece denouncing her claims that she was a progressive prosecutor. The subheading on the piece reads: “The senator was often on the wrong side of history when she served as California’s attorney general.”