Episode 1197
Kamala Harris
Wed, 2020-Aug-12 07:52 UTC
Length - 3:42
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With 3,709,497 views on Tuesday, 11 August 2020 our article of the day is Kamala Harris.
Kamala Devi Harris ( KAH-mə-lə; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from California since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Harris is the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee for the 2020 election, running alongside former vice president Joe Biden. She is the first African American and the first Asian American to be chosen as the running mate of a major party's presidential candidate. Born in Oakland, California, Harris is a graduate of Howard University and University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Harris began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected the 27th district attorney of San Francisco, serving until 2011. Harris was narrowly elected Attorney General of California in 2010, and was re-elected in 2014. Harris faced criticism from reformers for tough-on-crime policies she pursued while she was California's attorney general.
In November 2016, she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to succeed outgoing senator Barbara Boxer, becoming California's third female senator, the second African-American woman and the first South Asian–American to serve in the United States Senate. As a senator, she has supported healthcare reform, federal descheduling of cannabis, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, and progressive tax reform. She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including U. S. attorneys general Jeff Sessions and William Barr, and Associate Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Harris ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 election, briefly becoming a frontrunner before ending her campaign on December 3, 2019, citing a lack of funds to continue. She was announced as Joe Biden's running mate for the 2020 United States presidential election on August 11, 2020, becoming the third female U. S. vice presidential nominee of a major party, after Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin.
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For the full current version of the article, see Kamala Harris on Wikipedia.
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