Harris was elected to federal office in 2016 when California voters selected her to succeed retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer in the upper chamber. During her tenure in the Senate, she served on the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. Just before she was sworn in as vice president in January 2021...
She had become a prominent politician by the time shelaunched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nominationin January 2019, going with the slogan "Kamala Harris for the People". Democrats saw her as a promising candidate to overthrow Donald Trump's presidency in the 2020 election, but Ms...
she served as California’s Attorney General, advocating for criminal justice reform, particularly the “Open Justice” data effort to increase openness. Harris has been a strong supporter of healthcare reform in the United States Senate, co-sponsoring Medicare for All...
Harris reflected on the night in 2016 that she became the second Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. "In every one of my elections, part of our routine is we do a small friends-and-family dinner before we go to the campaign night celebration," she said. That night was also the...
In 2015, Harris launched a campaign for the US Senate, vying to replace longtime California Sen. Barbara Boxer. Both former President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Biden endorsed her campaign and she would later write in her memoir that election night in 2016 was “surreal” for many ...
When Kamala Harris appeared with Joe Biden on Wednesday as his running mate for the first time, she showed why he had chosen her.
She said Harris and Walz will address staffers after the vice president’s speech at Howard today. 13w ago / 1:49 PM EST Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin wins re-election in Wisconsin NBC News projection Democrat Tammy Baldwin wins re-election to the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, NBC News proje...
Name: Kamala Devi Harris Born: October 20, 1964, in Oakland, CA Known For: Vice President of the United States. Previously the Junior Senator from California; sat on Senate Budget, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Judiciary, and Intelligence committees. First female, Black, and South...
Harris, the junior senator from California and a member of the Senate's Judiciary Committee and Select Intelligence Committee, said thereport released following Special CounselRobert Mueller's investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election made it clear there was "good evidence...
Harris' early departure from the Senate has multiple precedents. Biden was the last sitting senator to be elected vice president. He resigned his Delaware post on Jan. 15, 2009, five days before he and Barack Obama were inaugurated. Obama, a senator at the time of his election, had ...