This week, a House subcommittee held a high-profile hearing interrogating the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google about their growing market power. But as more congressional Democrats scrutinize corporate America’s monopolistic business practices, their party may end up giving the vice presidential nomination to a lawmaker who previously expressed misgivings about antitrust enforcement when it comes to Silicon Valley.

California senator Kamala Harris’s meteoric rise from San Francisco district attorney to Democratic presidential contender occurred in the span of just over a decade and today, insiders believe she tops Joe Biden’s short list for vice president.

During the 2020 election, Harris’s record on criminal justice proved too steep a hurdle during her party’s presidential primary just a few short months ago. She was dogged by criticism that as California attorney general, she had been soft on white-collar crime like mortgage fraud while pursuing low-level offenses like truancy with zeal. Questions also arose about her refusal to act on her staff’s memo that identified what it called “widespread misconduct” at a financial firm run by Steve Mnuchin, who donated to her Senate campaign.