The junior Polisena earned a bachelor's degree from the Rhode Island College, where he studied criminal justice, and graduated from the Roger Williams University School of Law.
[4] He joined the administration of Democratic Party governor Dan McKee as deputy counsel in early 2021 and left the following year to focus on a campaign for mayor of Johnston.
[4] A columnist in the Boston Globe wrote that it was the younger Polisena who "helped move the ball on the Amazon project [to build a warehouse in the town] after his father admittedly lost his temper with state officials.
The Sun Rise's publisher later told the Boston Globe that Polisena Jr. had privately stated his intention to end the contract while expressing his disapproval of the newspaper's critical coverage of him.
Among other comments, he blamed the Democratic Party with losing touch with working class people, and accused the campaign of Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, of erring by "focusing on things like identity politics – from trans rights to calling Trump a racist – rather than more universal issues".