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Kamala Harris
Harris, formally dressed up and made up, smiles for her portrait.
Official portrait, 2021
49th Vice President of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 20, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byMike Pence
United States Senator
from California
In office
January 3, 2017 – January 18, 2021
Preceded byBarbara Boxer
Succeeded byAlex Padilla
32nd Attorney General of California
In office
January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2017
GovernorJerry Brown
Preceded byJerry Brown
Succeeded byXavier Becerra
27th District Attorney of San Francisco
In office
January 8, 2004 – January 3, 2011
Preceded byTerence Hallinan
Succeeded byGeorge Gascón
Personal details
Born
Kamala Devi Harris[a]

(1964-10-20) October 20, 1964 (age 60)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
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(m. 2014)​
ChildrenCole Emhoff (stepson)
Ella Emhoff (stepdaughter)
Parent(s)Donald J. Harris (father)
Shyamala Gopalan (mother)
RelativesHarris family
ResidenceNumber One Observatory Circle
Education
SignatureCursive signature in ink
WebsiteCampaign website
Harris's voice
Harris speaks on the Americans with Disabilities Act
Recorded July 26, 2021
This article is part of
a series about
Kamala Harris
Personal
27th District Attorney of San Francisco
32nd Attorney General of California
U.S. Senator from California
49th Vice President of the United States
Incumbent
Vice presidential campaigns
Presidential campaigns

Kamala Devi Harris[b][a] (/ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi/ ⓘ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee;[2] born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president.[3][4] A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021, and earlier as the attorney general of California. Harris is the Democratic Party's nominee in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.[5][6]

Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She began her law career in the office of the district attorney (DA) of Alameda County, before being recruited to the San Francisco DA's Office and later the city attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected DA of San Francisco. She was elected attorney general of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris served as the junior U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021; she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second Black woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the U.S. Senate.[7][8][9]

As a senator, Harris advocated for stricter gun control laws, the DREAM Act, federal legalization of cannabis, and healthcare and taxation reforms.[10][11] She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.[12]

Harris sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, but withdrew from the race before the primaries. Biden selected her to be his running mate, and their ticket went on to defeat the incumbent president and vice president, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, in the 2020 election. Harris and Biden were inaugurated on January 20, 2021. Presiding over an evenly split Senate upon entering office, Harris played a crucial role as president of the Senate with her power to cast tie-breaking votes, helping pass bills such as the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 stimulus package and the Inflation Reduction Act. After Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election, Harris launched her own presidential campaign with Biden's endorsement.[13]

Early life and career

Main article: Early life and career of Kamala Harris

Early life and education

Kamala Devi Harris[a] was born in Oakland, California,[14] on October 20, 1964.[15] Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan was a biologist who moved to the United States from India as a 19-year-old graduate student in 1958, and whose work on the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast cancer research.[16] Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris,[17] is a Stanford University professor of economics (emeritus) who arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961.[18]

Harris's childhood home on Bancroft Way in Berkeley

In 1966, the Harris family began moving around various locations in the Midwest, with both parents working at multiple universities in succession over a brief period.[19][20][21] Kamala, along with her mother and sister, moved back to California in 1970.[22][23][20] African-American intellectuals and rights advocates constituted Harris's formative surroundings.[24] Harris's parents divorced when she was seven. When she was twelve, Harris and her sister moved with their mother to Montreal, Quebec.[25][26] Harris graduated from Westmount High School[c] in 1981.[28]

Harris attended Vanier College in Montreal in 1981–1982,[29] and then attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C.[30][31] She graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics.[32] Harris then attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law,[33] where she served as president of its chapter of the Black Law Students Association.[34] She graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1989.[35]

Early career

In 1990, Harris was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California, where she was described as "an able prosecutor on the way up".[36] In 1994, Speaker of the California Assembly Willie Brown, who was then dating Harris, appointed her to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and later to the California Medical Assistance Commission.[36] In February 1998, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan recruited Harris as an assistant district attorney.[37] There she became the chief of the Career Criminal Division, supervising five other attorneys, where she prosecuted homicide, burglary, robbery, and sexual assault cases – particularly three-strikes cases. In August 2000, Harris took a job at San Francisco City Hall, working for city attorney Louise Renne.[38] Harris ran the Family and Children's Services Division representing child abuse and neglect cases. Renne endorsed Harris during her D.A. campaign.[39]

Harris with California representative Nancy Pelosi in 2004

In 2002, Harris ran for District Attorney of San Francisco,[40] running a "forceful" campaign[41][42] and differentiating herself from Hallinan by attacking his performance.[43] Harris won the election with 56 percent of the vote, becoming the first person of color elected as district attorney of San Francisco.[44] She ran unopposed for a second term in November 2007.[45]

Within the first six months of taking office, Harris cleared 27 of 74 backlogged homicide cases.[46] Harris also pushed for higher bail for criminal defendants involved in gun-related crimes, arguing that historically low bail encouraged outsiders to commit crimes in San Francisco. SFPD officers credited Harris with tightening the loopholes defendants had used in the past.[47] During her campaign, Harris pledged never to seek the death penalty,[48] and kept to this in cases of a San Francisco Police Department officer, Isaac Espinoza, who was shot and killed in 2004;[49][50] and of Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member who was accused of murdering a man and his two sons in 2009.[51][52]

Harris created a Hate Crimes Unit, focusing on hate crimes against LGBT children and teens in schools,[53] and supported A.B. 1160, the Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act.[54] As District Attorney, Harris created an environmental crimes unit in 2005.[55] Harris expressed support for San Francisco's sanctuary city policy of not inquiring about immigration status in the process of a criminal investigation.[56] In 2004, Harris created the San Francisco Reentry Division.[57] Over six years, the 200 people graduated from the program had a recidivism rate of less than ten percent, compared to the 53 percent of California's drug offenders who returned to prison within two years of release.[58][59][60]

In 2006, as part of an initiative to reduce the city's skyrocketing homicide rate, Harris led a city-wide effort to combat truancy for at-risk elementary school youth in San Francisco.[61] Declaring chronic truancy a matter of public safety and pointing out that the majority of prison inmates and homicide victims are dropouts or habitual truants,[62] Harris in 2008 issued citations against six parents whose children missed at least fifty days of school, the first time San Francisco prosecuted adults for student truancy.[63] Harris's office ultiamtely prosecuted seven parents in three years, with none jailed.[64] By April 2009, 1,330 elementary school students were habitual or chronic truants, down 23 percent from 1,730 in 2008, and down from 2,517 in 2007 and from 2,856 in 2006.[64]

Attorney General of California (2011–2017)

Main article: Kamala Harris's tenure as Attorney General of California
Harris's official Attorney General portrait
Harris speaking at a Democratic rally at the University of Southern California in October 2010

In the 2010 general election, she faced Republican Los Angeles County district attorney Steve Cooley.[65][66] Harris was sworn in on January 3, 2011; she was the first woman, the first African American, and the first South Asian American to hold the office of Attorney General in the state's history.[67] Harris announced her intention to run for re-election in February 2014.[68] On November 4, 2014, Harris was re-elected against Republican Ronald Gold, winning 57.5 percent of the vote to 42.5 percent.[69]

In 2011, Harris obtained two of the largest recoveries in the history of California's False Claims Act over excess state Medi-Cal and federal Medicare payments.[70][71] In 2012, Harris leveraged California's economic clout to obtain better terms in the National Mortgage Settlement against the nation's five largest mortgage servicers.[72] Harris worked with Assembly speaker John Pérez and Senate president pro tem Darrell Steinberg in 2013 to introduce the Homeowner Bill of Rights, considered one of the strongest protections nationwide against aggressive foreclosure tactics.[73] In 2013, Harris declined to authorize a civil complaint against OneWest Bank, owned by an investment group headed by Steven Mnuchin (then a private citizen);[74] Harris was later criticized for accepting a donation from Mnuchin.[75] In 2015, Harris obtained a $1.2 billion judgment against for-profit Corinthian Colleges for false advertising and deceptive marketing targeting vulnerable, low-income students and misrepresenting job placement rates to students, investors, and accreditation agencies.[76]

Harris opposed California's ban on affirmative action[77] and filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas (2016), asking that the Court "reaffirm its decision that public colleges and universities may consider race as one factor in admissions decisions."[78][79]

In February 2012, Harris announced an agreement with Apple, Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Research in Motion, and Facebook to mandate that apps sold in their stores display prominent privacy policies informing users of what private information they were sharing, and with whom.[80][81] In 2015, Harris secured two settlements with Comcast totaling $59 million over allegations that it posted online the names, phone numbers and addresses of tens of thousands of customers, and discarded paper records without first omitting or redacting private customer information.[82]

In November 2013, Harris launched the California Department of Justice's Division of Recidivism Reduction and Re-Entry.[83] Harris's record on wrongful conviction cases as attorney general has engendered criticism from academics and activists.[84] After the 2011 United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Plata declared California's prisons so overcrowded they inflicted cruel and unusual punishment, Harris fought federal supervision, explaining "I have a client, and I don't get to choose my client."[85] In September 2014, Harris's office argued unsuccessfully in a court filing against the early release of prisoners, citing the need for inmate firefighting labor.[86]

After being elected, Harris declared her office would not defend Prop 8, a state constitutional amendment providing that only marriages "between a man and a woman" are valid,[87] and in February 2013 she filed an amicus curiae brief arguing Prop 8 was unconstitutional.[88] Harris later justified her decision to not defend the law by saying "It would be inappropriate for a state on the verge of bankruptcy to use all those resources to defend a law found to be unconstitutional."[89] In 2014, Attorney General Kamala Harris co-sponsored legislation to ban the gay and trans panic defense in court,[90] which passed.[91] Harris appealed a federal ruling in favor of an imprisoned transgender woman's request for gender-affirming surgery to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,[92] arguing that psychotherapy[93] and feminizing hormone therapy were sufficient medical treatment,[94] although she said she ultimately pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to change their policy.[95] In 2019, Harris stated that she took "full responsibility" for briefs her office filed in this case and others involving access to gender-affirming surgery for trans inmates.[96]

Harris visiting Peterson Middle School (Santa Clara Unified School District) in 2010

In 2011, Harris urged criminal penalties for parents of truant children, allowing the court to defer judgment if the parent agreed to a mediation period to get their child back in school. Critics charged that local prosecutors implementing her directives were overzealous in their enforcement and Harris's policy adversely affected families.[97]

Harris prioritized environmental protection as attorney general, first securing a $44 million settlement to resolve all damages and costs associated with the Cosco Busan oil spill.[98] In the aftermath of the 2015 Refugio oil spill, Harris toured the coastline and directed her office's resources and attorneys to investigate possible criminal violations.[99] From 2015 to 2016, Harris secured multiple multi-million-dollar settlements with fuel service companies Chevron, BP, ARCO, Phillips 66, and ConocoPhillips to resolve allegations they failed to properly monitor the hazardous materials in their underground gasoline storage tanks.[100][101][102] In summer 2016, automaker Volkswagen AG agreed to pay up to $14.7 billion to settle a raft of claims related to so-called Defeat Devices used to cheat emissions standards on its diesel cars.[103]

From left to right: LAPD chief Charlie Beck, Harris, and civil rights lawyer Constance L. Rice celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In 2012, Harris announced that the California Department of Justice had improved its DNA testing capabilities, clearing California's DNA backlog for the first time.[104] In 2015, Harris conducted a 90-day review of implicit bias in policing and police use of deadly force. In April 2015, Harris introduced the first of its kind "Principled Policing: Procedural Justice and Implicit Bias" training, to help law enforcement officers overcome barriers to neutral policing and rebuild trust between law enforcement and the community.[105] The same year, Harris's California Department of Justice became the first statewide agency in the country to require all its police officers to wear body cameras.[106] In 2016, Harris announced a patterns and practices investigation into purported civil rights violations and use of excessive force by the two largest law enforcement agencies in Kern County, California.[107]

In 2016, Harris's office seized videos and other information from the apartment of an antiabortion activist who had made secret recordings and then accused Planned Parenthood doctors of illegally selling fetal tissue.[108][109]

In 2011, Harris created the eCrime Unit within the California Department of Justice, a 20-attorney unit targeting technology crimes.[110] In 2015, several purveyors of so-called revenge porn sites based in California were arrested, charged with felonies, and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.[111][112] In 2016, Harris announced the arrest of Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer on felony charges of pimping a minor, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping, alleging that 99 percent of Backpage's revenue was directly attributable to prostitution-related ads, many of which involved victims of sex trafficking, including children under the age of 18.[113]

AG Harris announces the arrest of 101 gang members in Los Banos, California.

During her term as attorney general, Harris's office oversaw major investigations and prosecutions targeting transnational criminal organizations for their involvement in violent crime, fraud schemes, drug trafficking, and smuggling.[114] In summer 2012, Harris signed an accord with the Attorney General of Mexico, Marisela Morales, to improve coordination of law enforcement resources targeting transnational gangs engaging in the sale and trafficking of human beings across the San Ysidro border crossing.[115]

Harris at Howard University in 2017

On May 15, 2015, Harris received a Doctor of Laws from the University of Southern California.[116][117] On May 13, 2017, she received a Doctor of Humane Letters from Howard University,[118][119] where she gave a commencement address.[120]

U.S. Senate (2017–2021)

Election

Main article: 2016 United States Senate election in California
Senate campaign logo, 2016
Harris's official Senate portrait

After more than 20 years as a U.S. Senator from California, Senator Barbara Boxer announced on January 13, 2015, that she would not run for reelection in 2016.[121] Harris announced her candidacy for the Senate seat the following week.[121] Harris was a top contender from the beginning of her campaign.[122]

The 2016 California Senate election used California's new top-two primary format where the top two candidates in the primary would advance to the general election regardless of party.[122] On February 27, 2016, Harris won 78% of the California Democratic Party vote at the party convention, allowing Harris's campaign to receive financial support from the party.[123] Three months later, Governor Jerry Brown endorsed her.[124] In the June 7 primary, Harris came in first with 40% of the vote and won with pluralities in most counties.[125] Harris faced representative and fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez in the general election.[126] It was the first time a Republican did not appear in a general election for the Senate since California began directly electing senators in 1914.[126]

On July 19, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Harris.[127] In the November 2016 election, Harris defeated Sanchez, capturing over 60% of the vote, carrying all but four counties.[128] Following her victory, she promised to protect immigrants from the policies of President-elect Donald Trump and announced her intention to remain Attorney General through the end of 2016.[129][130]

Tenure and political positions

See also: Political positions of Kamala Harris

2017

Meeting with DREAMers in December 2017

On January 28, after Trump signed Executive Order 13769, barring citizens from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for ninety days, she condemned the order and was one of many to describe it as a "Muslim ban".[131] She called White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly at home to gather information and push back against the executive order.[132]

In February, Harris spoke in opposition to Trump's cabinet picks Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education[133] and Jeff Sessions for United States Attorney General.[134] In early March, she called on Sessions to resign, after it was reported that Sessions, who had previously stated he "did not have communications with the Russians", spoke twice with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.[135]

Harris was sworn into the Senate by the vice president, Joe Biden, on January 3, 2017.

In April, Harris voted against the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.[136] Later that month, Harris took her first foreign trip to the Middle East, visiting California troops stationed in Iraq and the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, the largest camp for Syrian refugees.[137]

In June, Harris garnered media attention for her questioning of Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, over the role he played in the May 2017 firing of James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[138] The prosecutorial nature of her questioning caused Senator John McCain, an ex officio member of the Intelligence Committee, and Senator Richard Burr, the committee chairman, to interrupt her and request that she be more respectful of the witness. A week later, she questioned Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, on the same topic.[139] Sessions said her questioning "makes me nervous".[140] Burr's singling out of Harris sparked suggestions in the news media that his behavior was sexist, with commentators arguing that Burr would not treat a male Senate colleague in a similar manner.[141]

In December, Harris called for the resignation of Senator Al Franken, asserting on Twitter, "Sexual harassment and misconduct should not be allowed by anyone and should not occur anywhere."[142]

2018

In January, Harris was appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee after the resignation of Al Franken.[143] Later that month, Harris questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for favoring Norwegian immigrants over others and for claiming to be unaware that Norway is a predominantly white country.[144][145]

In May, Harris heatedly questioned Secretary Nielsen about the Trump administration family separation policy, under which children were separated from their families when the parents were taken into custody for illegally entering the U.S.[146] In June, after visiting one of the detention facilities near the border in San Diego,[147] Harris became the first senator to demand Nielsen's resignation.[148]

Harris (center) at the 2018 commemorations of Bloody Sunday in Selma, where she was invited to speak by John Lewis (right)[149]

In the September and October Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Harris questioned Brett Kavanaugh about a meeting he may have had regarding the Mueller Investigation with a member of Kasowitz Benson Torres, the law firm founded by the President's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz. Kavanaugh was unable to answer and repeatedly deflected.[150] Harris also participated in questioning the FBI director's limited scope of the investigation on Kavanaugh regarding allegations of sexual assault.[151] She voted against his confirmation.

Harris was a target of the October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts.[152]

In December, the Senate passed the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act (S. 3178), sponsored by Harris.[153] The bill, which died in the House, would have made lynching a federal hate crime.[154]

2019

Harris at the 2019 San Francisco Pride parade

Harris supported busing for desegregation of public schools, saying that "the schools of America are as segregated, if not more segregated, today than when I was in elementary school."[155] She viewed busing as an option to be considered by school districts, rather than the responsibility of the federal government.[156]

Harris was an early co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, a plan to transition the country towards generating 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030.[157]

In March 2019, after Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, Harris called for U.S. Attorney General William Barr to testify before Congress in the interests of transparency.[158] Two days later, Barr released a four-page "summary" of the redacted Mueller Report, which was criticized as a deliberate mischaracterization of its conclusions.[159] Later that month, Harris was one of twelve Democratic senators to sign a letter led by Mazie Hirono questioning Barr's decision to offer "his own conclusion that the President's conduct did not amount to obstruction of justice" and called for an investigation into whether Barr's summary of the Mueller Report and his statements at a news conference were misleading.[160]

On May 1, 2019, Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[161] During the hearing, Barr remained defiant about the misrepresentations in the four-page summary he had released ahead of the full report.[162] When asked by Harris if he had reviewed the underlying evidence before deciding not to charge the President with obstruction of justice, Barr admitted that neither he, Rod Rosenstein, nor anyone in his office reviewed the evidence supporting the report before making the charging decision.[163] Harris later called for Barr to resign, and accused him of refusing to answer her questions because he could open himself up to perjury, and stating his responses disqualified him from serving as U.S. attorney general.[164][165] Two days later, Harris demanded again that the Department of Justice inspector general Michael E. Horowitz investigate whether Attorney General Barr acceded to pressure from the White House to investigate Trump's political enemies.[166]

On May 5, 2019, Harris said "voter suppression" prevented Democrats Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum from winning the 2018 gubernatorial elections in Georgia and Florida; Abrams lost by 55,000 votes and Gillum lost by 32,000 votes. According to election law expert Richard L. Hasen, "I have seen no good evidence that the suppressive effects of strict voting and registration laws affected the outcome of the governor's races in Georgia and Florida."[167]

In July, Harris teamed with Kirsten Gillibrand to urge the Trump administration to investigate the persecution of Uyghurs in China by the Chinese Communist Party; in this question she was joined by colleague Marco Rubio.[168]

In November, Harris called for an investigation into the death of Roxsana Hernández, a transgender woman and immigrant who died in ICE custody.[169][170]

In December, Harris led a group of Democratic senators and civil rights organizations in demanding the removal of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller after emails published by the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed frequent promotion of white nationalist literature to Breitbart website editors.[171]

2020

Harris with Congressional Black Caucus women

Before the opening of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on January 16, 2020, Harris delivered remarks on the floor of the Senate, stating her views on the integrity of the American justice system and the principle that nobody, including an incumbent president, is above the law. Harris later asked Senate Judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham to halt all judicial nominations during the impeachment trial, to which Graham acquiesced.[172][173] Harris voted to convict the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.[174]

Harris has worked on bipartisan bills with Republican co-sponsors, including a bail reform bill with Senator Rand Paul,[175] an election security bill with Senator James Lankford,[176] and a workplace harassment bill with Senator Lisa Murkowski.[177]

2021

Following her election as Vice President of the United States, Harris resigned from her seat on January 18, 2021,[178] prior to taking office on January 20, 2021, and was replaced by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla.[179]

Committee assignments

While in the Senate, Harris was a member of the following committees:[180]

Caucus memberships

2020 presidential election (2019–2020)

Presidential campaign

Main article: Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign
Harris formally announced her run for the Democratic nomination for president on January 27, 2019.

Harris had been considered a top contender and potential frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.[184] In June 2018, she was quoted as "not ruling it out".[185] In July 2018, it was announced that she would publish a memoir, a sign of a possible run.[186] On January 21, 2019, Harris officially announced her candidacy for president of the United States in the 2020 presidential election.[187] In the first 24 hours after her candidacy announcement, she tied a record set by Bernie Sanders in 2016 for the most donations raised in the day following an announcement.[188][189] More than 20,000 people attended her formal campaign launch event in her hometown of Oakland, California, on January 27, according to a police estimate.[190]

During the first Democratic presidential debate in June 2019, Harris scolded former vice president Joe Biden for "hurtful" remarks he made, speaking fondly of senators who opposed integration efforts in the 1970s and working with them to oppose mandatory school bussing.[191] Harris's support rose by between six and nine points in polls following that debate.[192] In the second debate in August, Harris was confronted by Biden and Representative Tulsi Gabbard over her record as attorney general.[193] The San Jose Mercury News assessed that some of Gabbard's and Biden's accusations were on point, such as blocking the DNA testing of a death row inmate, while others did not stand up to scrutiny. In the immediate aftermath of the debate, Harris fell in the polls.[194][195] Over the next few months her poll numbers fell to the low single digits.[196][197] Harris faced criticism from reformers for tough-on-crime policies she pursued while she was California's attorney general.[198] In 2014, she defended California's death penalty in court.[199]

Prior to and during her presidential campaign an online informal organization using the hashtag #KHive formed to support her candidacy and defend her from racist and sexist attacks.[200][201][202] According to the Daily Dot, Joy Reid first used the term in an August 2017 tweet saying "@DrJasonJohnson @ZerlinaMaxwell and I had a meeting and decided it's called the K-Hive."[203]

On December 3, 2019, Harris withdrew from seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination, citing a shortage of funds.[204] In March 2020, Harris endorsed Joe Biden for president.[205]

Vice presidential campaign

Main articles: Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign and 2020 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
Campaign logo for the Biden–Harris ticket

In May 2019, senior members of the Congressional Black Caucus endorsed the idea of a Biden–Harris ticket.[206] In late February 2020, Biden won a landslide victory in the 2020 South Carolina Democratic primary with the endorsement of House whip Jim Clyburn, with more victories on Super Tuesday. In early March, Clyburn suggested Biden choose a black woman as a running mate, commenting that "African American women needed to be rewarded for their loyalty".[207] In March, Biden committed to choosing a woman for his running mate.[208]

On April 17, 2020, Harris responded to media speculation and said she "would be honored" to be Biden's running mate.[209] In late May, in relation to the murder of George Floyd and ensuing protests and demonstrations, Biden faced renewed calls to select a black woman to be his running mate, highlighting the law enforcement credentials of Harris and Val Demings.[210]

On June 12, The New York Times reported that Harris was emerging as the frontrunner to be Biden's running mate, as she was the only African American woman with the political experience typical of vice presidents.[211] On June 26, CNN reported that more than a dozen people close to the Biden search process considered Harris one of Biden's top four contenders, along with Elizabeth Warren, Val Demings, and Keisha Lance Bottoms.[212]

On August 11, 2020, Biden announced he had chosen Harris, who appealed to a younger generation.[213] She was the first African American, the first Indian American, and the third woman after Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin to be picked as the vice-presidential nominee for a major party ticket.[214] Harris is also the first resident of the Western United States to appear on the Democratic Party's national ticket.[215]

Harris became the vice president–elect following the Biden-Harris ticket's victory in the 2020 presidential election.[216] After the major networks called the election for Biden and Harris, Harris was recorded calling Biden, saying, "We did it! We did it, Joe. You're going to be the next President of the United States." The video became one of the ten most-liked tweets of 2020.[217] Biden and Harris were jointly named Time Person of the Year for 2020.[218]

Vice presidency (2021–present)

See also: Presidency of Joe Biden

Following the election of Joe Biden as U.S. president in the 2020 election, Harris assumed office as vice president of the United States on January 20, 2021.[219] She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.[220][221] She is also the second person of color to hold the post, preceded by Charles Curtis, a Native American and member of the Kaw Nation, who served under Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933.[222] Harris is the third person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach one of the highest offices in the executive branch, after Curtis and former president Barack Obama.

Inauguration

See also: Inauguration of Joe Biden

Harris was sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2021, on two Bibles held by her husband, one belonging to Regina Shelton, a person important to her and her sister Maya Harris, and another belonging to former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor administered the oath of office to Harris at 11:40 a.m., with 20 minutes remaining in the term of preceding vice president Mike Pence. Sotomayor became the first woman to administer an inaugural oath twice after she administered Biden's at his 2013 swearing-in. Harris recited the following:

I, Kamala Devi Harris, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. [So help me God.]

Her first act as vice president was swearing in her replacement Alex Padilla and Georgia senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who were elected in the 2021 Georgia runoff elections.[223]

Tenure

Harris arriving in Guatemala during her first foreign trip as vice president, June 2021

Upon taking office on January 20, 2021, the 117th Congress's Senate was divided 50–50 between Republicans and Democrats;[224] this meant that Harris had to be frequently called upon to exercise her power to cast tie-breaking votes as president of the Senate. Harris cast her first two tie-breaking votes on February 5, 2021. In February and March, Harris's tie-breaking votes were crucial in passing the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 stimulus package proposed by Biden, since no Republicans in the Senate voted for the package.[225][226] On July 20, 2021, Harris broke Mike Pence's record for tie-breaking votes in the first year of a vice presidency[227] when she cast the seventh tie-breaking vote in her first six months[228] and cast 13 tie-breaking votes during her first year in office, the most tie-breaking votes in a single year in U.S. history, surpassing John Adams who cast 12 votes in 1790.[228][229] On December 5, 2023, Harris broke the record for the most tie-breaking votes cast by a vice president casting her 32nd vote, exceeding John C. Calhoun, who cast 31 votes during his nearly eight years as vice president, in less than half the time.[230][231] On November 19, 2021, Harris served as acting president from 10:10 to 11:35 am EST, while President Biden underwent a colonoscopy.[232] She became the first woman, and the third person overall, to assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency under Section 3 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.[233][234]

As early as December 2021, Harris was identified as playing a pivotal role in the Biden Administration, owing to her tiebreaking vote in the evenly divided Senate as well as her being the presumed frontrunner in 2024 if Biden was not to seek reelection.[235]

Immigration

Harris and German chancellor Angela Merkel, July 2021

On March 24, 2021, Biden assigned Harris to work with Mexico and Northern Triangle nations to stem irregular migration to the U.S.-Mexico border and address the "root causes" of migration.[236][237] Multiple news organizations at the time described Harris as a "border czar",[238][239][240] though Harris rejected the title and never actually held it.[241][242][243][244][245] Republicans and other critics began using the term "border czar" to tie Harris to the Mexico–United States border crisis, including in a July 2024 House resolution, despite her role having no authority over the border itself.[246][247][248][249][250]

Harris conducted her first international trip as vice president in June 2021, visiting Guatemala and Mexico in an attempt to address the root causes of an increase in migration from Central America to the United States.[251] During her visit, in a joint press conference with Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei, Harris issued an appeal to potential migrants, stating "I want to be clear to folks in the region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come."[252] Her work in Central America led to creation of task forces on corruption and human trafficking; a women's empowerment program, and an investment fund for housing and businesses.[253]

Foreign policy

Harris and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, June 2023

Harris met with French president Emmanuel Macron in November 2021 to strengthen ties after the contentious cancellation of a submarine program.[254] A subsequent meeting was held in November 2022 during Macron's visit to the U.S., resulting in an agreement to strengthen U.S.–France space cooperation across civil, commercial, and national security sectors.[255]

In April 2021, Harris indicated that she was the last person in the room before Biden decided to remove all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, commenting that the president has "an extraordinary amount of courage" and "make(s) decisions based on what he truly believes ... is the right thing to do."[256] National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that Biden "insists she be in every core decision-making meeting. She weighs in during those meetings, often providing unique perspectives."[253]

Harris assumed a "key diplomatic role" within the Biden Administration, particularly following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, after which she was dispatched to Germany and Poland to rally support for arming Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia.[257]

Harris meeting Yoon Suk Yeol in Goddard Space Flight Center, in 2023

In April 2023, Harris visited Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and agreed to work to strengthen the space alliance between the United States and South Korea. "We renew our commitment to strengthen our cooperation in the next frontier of our expanding alliance, and of course that is space," Harris said at a joint news conference with Yoon.[258]

Harris with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 25, 2024

In November 2023, Harris pledged that the Biden administration would place no conditions on U.S. aid to Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza.[259] In March 2024, Harris criticized Israel's actions during the Israel–Hamas war, saying, "Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks...This will get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in."[260]

Speeches and speaking engagements

In May 2021, Harris became the first female commencement speaker at the United States Naval Academy.[261] In May 2023, she became the first woman to give a commencement address for West Point.[262]

Public image

Main article: Public image of Kamala Harris

Harris' term in office has seen high staff turnovers that included the departures of her chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, press secretary, deputy press secretary, communications director, and chief speechwriter.[263] Critics allege that the high rate of resignations reflects "dysfunction" and demoralization.[257] Axios reported that at least some of the turnover was due to exhaustion from a demanding transition into the new administration, as well as financial and personal considerations.[264] During her tenure, Harris has had one of the lowest approval ratings of any vice president.[265][266][267] According to a RealClear Politics polling average, as of April 2024, 39% of registered voters had a favorable opinion of Harris and 55% had an unfavorable opinion.[268][269]

Harris quips, "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" during a speech on May 10, 2023.

In 2024, a video clip from 2023 went viral of Harris saying "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you" at a White House event.[270] Since the launch of her 2024 presidential campaign, that and other Harris remarks have been widely shared as memes, resulting in press coverage of her public image.[271][272]

Harris's boisterous laughter[d] has been described as her one of her "most defining and most dissected personal traits".[276] Harris says she got her laugh from her mother.[277]

2024 presidential campaign

Main article: Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign

On July 21, 2024, incumbent president and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden suspended his campaign for re-election in 2024 with Harris and endorsed her as the Democratic presidential nominee.[278] Harris also received endorsements from Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus, and many others.[279][280][281] In the first 24 hours of Harris's candidacy, the presidential campaign raised $81 million in small-dollar donations, the highest single-day total of any presidential candidate in history.[282] If elected, Harris would become the first female and first Asian-American president of the United States, and the second African-American president after Barack Obama. By August 5, 2024, Harris had officially secured the nomination via a virtual roll call of delegates.[5]

Political positions

Main article: Political positions of Kamala Harris

Personal life

See also: Family of Kamala Harris
Vice president Harris and her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, in 2024

In the 1990s, Harris dated then-Speaker of the California Assembly Willie Brown.[36] In 2001, Harris had a brief dating relationship with talk show host Montel Williams.[283]

Harris met her future husband, attorney Doug Emhoff, through a mutual friend who set up Harris and Emhoff on a blind date in 2013.[284] Emhoff, who was born in a Jewish family, was an entertainment lawyer who became partner-in-charge at Venable LLP's Los Angeles office.[285][284][286] Harris and Emhoff were married on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California.[287] Harris is stepmother to Emhoff's two children, Cole and Ella, from his previous marriage to the film producer Kerstin Emhoff.[288] As of August 2019, Harris and her husband had an estimated net worth of $6 million.[289]

Harris is a Baptist, holding membership of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, a congregation of the American Baptist Churches USA.[290][291][292][293] She is a member of The Links, an invitation-only social and service organization of prominent Black American women.[294][295]

Harris's sister, Maya, is a lawyer and MSNBC political analyst; her brother-in-law, Tony West, is general counsel of Uber and a former United States Department of Justice senior official.[296] Her niece, Meena, is the founder of the Phenomenal Women Action Campaign and former head of strategy and leadership at Uber.[297]

Publications

Harris has written two nonfiction books and one children's book.

  • Harris, Kamala; O'C. Hamilton, Joan (2009). Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-6528-9.
  • Harris, Kamala (January 8, 2019). The Truths We Hold: An American Journey. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-1-9848-8622-4.
  • Harris, Kamala (January 8, 2019). Superheroes Are Everywhere. London: Penguin Young Readers Group. ISBN 978-1-9848-3749-3.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Harris was originally named Kamala Iyer Harris by her parents, who two weeks later filed an affidavit by which her middle name was changed to Devi.[1]
  2. ^ Kamala is a Sanskrit word meaning lotus. Kamala is used as a feminine given name in Indian culture. Devi (/ˈdeɪvi/; Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for 'goddess';
  3. ^ Harris has said she struggled with understanding her French immersion, so her mother sent her to an English-speaking school for high school. This would no longer have been possible the next year, when Quebec passed a law requiring all immigrants who did not previously have English schooling in Quebec to enroll their children in French-speaking schools.[27]
  4. ^ In terms of its type, it is often described as a cackle or a guffaw.[273][274][275] An example of it can be seen in the "coconut tree" video exhibited on the right of this section.

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