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  • Kamala Harris raised 81 million dollars in small-dollar donations during the first 24 hours of her 2024 presidential campaign, the highest single-day total of any presidential candidate in history. The race that followed lasted only 107 days, the shortest general election campaign on record. She later gave her memoir that number as its title.

    By then, Harris had already been a San Francisco prosecutor, California's attorney general, a United States senator and the 49th vice president of the United States. Few American politicians have been questioned about their record from as many directions as she was.

    How does a child of two immigrant academics, raised across several cities and two countries, reach the second-highest office in the land? Why did a prosecutor who called herself progressive draw fire from reformers? And why did a vice president with an unmatched record in the Senate carry some of the lowest approval ratings of her era? The answers start with a childhood that moved almost as often as her later career.

  • Shyamala Gopalan Harris arrived in the United States from India in 1958 to study endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley. Over a research career of more than 40 years, her work on the progesterone receptor gene led to advances in breast cancer research.

    Donald Jasper Harris, an Afro-Jamaican, immigrated in 1961 and also enrolled at Berkeley, where he specialized in development economics. He later became the first Black scholar granted tenure in Stanford University's economics department. The two met in 1962 and married in 1963. Their daughter Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, on the 20th of October 1964.

    The family left Berkeley in 1966, around Kamala's second birthday. Her parents held teaching or research positions in a string of Midwestern college towns, among them Urbana, Illinois, where her sister Maya was born in 1966. Evanston, Illinois, and Madison, Wisconsin, followed. By 1970 the marriage had faltered, and Shyamala returned to Berkeley with both girls. The couple divorced when Kamala was seven.

    In the early 1970s, Kamala often traveled with her mother to Chennai, India, where they stayed with her maternal grandfather. There she learned to wear traditional Indian dress and picked up a few phrases of Tamil. After Donald took a position at Stanford in 1972, the sisters spent weekends at his house in Palo Alto and weekdays at their mother's home in Berkeley. Shyamala kept close friendships with African-American intellectuals and activists in Oakland and Berkeley.

    In 1976, Shyamala accepted a research post at the McGill University School of Medicine and moved her daughters to Montreal, Quebec. Kamala finished at Westmount High School on Montreal Island in 1981. She spent a year at Vanier College, then enrolled at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. There she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, one of the "Divine Nine" historically black sororities, and graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics.

    At the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, she led the school's chapter of the Black Law Students Association. She earned her Juris Doctor in 1989. Her first job offer came from a county courthouse across the bay.

  • One early description called her "an able prosecutor on the way up" during her stint as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, which began in 1990. In 1994, Willie Brown, the Speaker of the California Assembly, who was dating her at the time, appointed her to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. He later placed her on the California Medical Assistance Commission.

    In February 1998, San Francisco district attorney Terence Hallinan recruited her as an assistant district attorney. She became chief of the Career Criminal Division, supervising five other attorneys. Her caseload covered homicide, burglary, robbery and sexual assault, particularly three-strikes cases. In August 2000 she moved to City Hall to work for city attorney Louise Renne, running the Family and Children's Services Division on child abuse and neglect cases.

    In 2002, Harris ran against her former boss Hallinan, attacking his performance in what was called a forceful campaign. She won with 56 percent of the vote, becoming the first person of color elected district attorney of San Francisco. She ran unopposed for a second term in 2007.

    Within six months of taking office, she cleared 27 of 74 backlogged homicide cases. She pushed for higher bail in gun-related crimes. During her campaign she pledged never to seek the death penalty, and she kept that promise in the case of police officer Isaac Espinoza, shot and killed in 2004. She kept it again for Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member accused in 2009 of murdering a man and his two sons.

    The San Francisco Reentry Division, which she created in 2004, graduated 200 people over six years. Fewer than 10 percent of them returned to crime, compared with 53 percent of California's drug offenders who went back to prison within two years. She also opened a Hate Crimes Unit focused on LGBT children and teens in schools, and an environmental crimes unit in 2005.

    Her truancy campaign was more controversial. In 2008, calling chronic absence a matter of public safety, she issued citations against six parents whose children had missed at least 50 days of school. It was the first time San Francisco prosecuted adults over student truancy. Her office ultimately prosecuted seven parents in three years, and none were jailed. Habitual or chronic truants among elementary students fell from 2,856 in 2006 to 1,330 by April 2009.

    Voters elected her attorney general of California in 2010. She took office on the 3rd of January 2011 as the first woman, African American and South Asian American in that job. Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi had endorsed her. She narrowly beat Republican Steve Cooley. In 2014 she won reelection over Ronald Gold with 58 percent.

    Donald Trump, her future opponent, made two contributions to that 2014 campaign totaling $6,000. In 2015 she gave the money to a nonprofit advocating for civil and human rights for Central Americans.

    As attorney general she secured major settlements against corporations including Quest Diagnostics, JPMorgan Chase and Corinthian Colleges, recovering billions for California consumers. Her Homeowner Bill of Rights targeted aggressive foreclosure practices and produced several nine-figure settlements with mortgage servicers. She worked with Apple, Google and Facebook so mobile apps would disclose how they shared data, and she created the Privacy Enforcement and Protection Unit. Settlements with Comcast and Houzz followed.

    On criminal justice she launched the Division of Recidivism Reduction and Re-Entry and the Back on Track LA program, which offered education and job training to nonviolent offenders. Yet she also defended the state's position in wrongful-conviction cases and her office's stance on prison labor. In 2014 she defended California's death penalty in court. A 2015 motion she filed sought to block gender-affirming care for a transgender inmate, after the Ninth Circuit had ruled that denying such treatment violated the 8th Amendment.

    On same-sex marriage, she opposed Proposition 8 and refused to defend it in federal court. After Hollingsworth v. Perry struck it down in 2013, she ordered the Los Angeles County Clerk's office to "start the marriages immediately". She personally officiated at the wedding of plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier at San Francisco City Hall.

    Critics called her tough on crime, while she described herself as a "progressive prosecutor". In a 2009 book she criticized liberals for what she called "biases against law enforcement".

  • On the 13th of January 2015, Barbara Boxer, a senator from California for more than 20 years, announced she would not run again in 2016. Harris declared her own candidacy the following week. At the state party convention on the 27th of February 2016, she won 78 percent of the Democratic vote. Governor Jerry Brown endorsed her three months later.

    In the 7th of June primary, held under California's new top-two format, she finished first with 40 percent. That set up a November contest against fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez. Barack Obama and Joe Biden endorsed Harris on the 19th of July. She won with more than 60 percent, carrying all but four counties. She became the second Black woman and first South Asian American in the Senate.

    On the 28th of January 2017, after Trump signed Executive Order 13769, she condemned what many called a "Muslim ban". She phoned White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly at home to gather information. That spring she opposed Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions for Trump's cabinet. In early March she called on Sessions to resign after reports that he had spoken twice with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. In April she voted against Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, then made her first foreign trip. It took her to California troops in Iraq and to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.

    In June 2017, her questioning of deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein over the firing of FBI director James Comey drew national attention. Senators John McCain and Richard Burr interrupted and asked her to be more respectful of the witness. A week later she questioned Sessions on the same subject, and he said it "makes me nervous". Commentators argued that Burr would not have singled out a male colleague that way.

    In January 2018 she joined the Senate Judiciary Committee after Al Franken resigned. She challenged Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over a comment favoring Norwegian immigrants. That May she pressed Nielsen heatedly on the family separation policy. After visiting a detention facility near San Diego in June, she became the first senator to demand Nielsen's resignation.

    In the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings that autumn, she asked him about a possible meeting regarding the Mueller Investigation with a member of the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres. Kavanaugh could not answer and repeatedly deflected. She also questioned the limited scope of the FBI investigation into allegations against him, and voted against confirmation. In October 2018 she was a target of the mail bombing attempts. In December the Senate passed her Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, which would have made lynching a federal hate crime. It died in the House.

    On the 1st of May 2019, she asked Attorney General William Barr whether he had reviewed the underlying evidence before deciding not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice. Barr admitted that neither he, Rosenstein, nor anyone in his office had done so. Harris later called for him to resign.

    Before Trump's impeachment trial opened on the 16th of January 2020, she asked Judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham to halt judicial nominations during the trial, and he agreed. She voted to convict on both charges. She also wrote bills with Republicans, including bail reform with Rand Paul, election security with James Lankford and workplace harassment with Lisa Murkowski. Her Senate career ended on the 18th of January 2021, two days before she took a different oath.

  • Harris announced her presidential candidacy on the 21st of January 2019, after saying in June 2018 she was "not ruling it out". A memoir announced the following month had hinted at ambition. In the first 24 hours she tied the record Bernie Sanders set in 2016 for donations raised the day after an announcement. Police estimated that more than 20,000 people attended her launch event in Oakland on the 27th of January.

    In the first debate in June 2019, she scolded Joe Biden for "hurtful" remarks about working with senators who had opposed integration and mandatory school busing in the 1970s. Her poll numbers rose by between six and nine points. The August debate went differently. Biden and Representative Tulsi Gabbard confronted her over her record as attorney general. The San Jose Mercury News judged some charges accurate, such as blocking DNA testing of a death row inmate, while others did not hold up. Her numbers slid to the low single digits.

    On the 3rd of December 2019, she withdrew, citing a shortage of funds. In March 2020 she endorsed Biden.

    The idea of a Biden-Harris ticket predated all that. In May 2019, senior members of the Congressional Black Caucus endorsed it. After Biden's landslide win in the South Carolina primary in late February 2020, House whip Jim Clyburn said "African American women needed to be rewarded for their loyalty". In March, Biden committed to choosing a woman. On the 17th of April, Harris said she "would be honored" to serve.

    The murder of George Floyd in late May renewed calls for a Black running mate, and the law enforcement credentials of Harris and Val Demings drew notice. On the 26th of June, CNN reported that people close to the search counted Harris among four top contenders, with Elizabeth Warren, Demings and Keisha Lance Bottoms.

    Biden announced his choice on the 11th of August 2020. Harris became the first Indian American on a major-party ticket and the third woman, after Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin. She was also the first resident of the Western United States on the Democratic national ticket. The Biden-Harris ticket defeated Trump and Mike Pence that November.

  • At 11:40 a.m. on the 20th of January 2021, Justice Sonia Sotomayor swore Harris in. Her first act was to swear in three new senators: Alex Padilla, her successor from California, and Georgia's Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

    Those swearings-in set up a Senate divided 50-50. Harris cast her first two tie-breaking votes on the 5th of February. Her votes were needed to pass the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, since no Senate Republican supported it. On the 20th of July, her seventh tie-breaker in six months broke Mike Pence's first-year record. She finished that year with 13, passing John Adams, who cast 12 in 1790.

    On the 5th of December 2023, her 32nd vote overtook John C. Calhoun, who cast 31 in nearly eight years. She left office with 33, including a decisive vote on the Inflation Reduction Act.

    On the 19th of November 2021, she served as acting president from 10:10 to 11:35 a.m. while Biden underwent a colonoscopy. She was the first woman, and the third person overall, to hold the powers of the presidency in that way.

    On the 24th of March 2021, Biden assigned her to work with Mexico and the Northern Triangle nations of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The goal was to stem irregular migration and address its root causes. The result was the Root Causes Strategy. News organizations often called her "border czar", but she rejected the title and never held it. Critics later used it anyway, including in a July 2024 House resolution.

    Her first international trip as vice president, in June 2021, took her to Guatemala and Mexico. At a press conference with Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei, she told potential migrants: "Do not come. Do not come." Her work produced task forces on corruption and human trafficking, the Partnership for Central America, a women's empowerment program called in Her Hands, and investment funds for housing and businesses.

    In April 2021, she said she was the last person in the room before Biden decided to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Biden insisted she attend every core decision-making meeting. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, she was sent to Germany and Poland to rally support for arming Ukraine and imposing sanctions. In November 2021 and again a year later she met French president Emmanuel Macron, with the second meeting producing a space cooperation agreement. In April 2023, she joined South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to pledge a stronger space alliance.

    On Gaza, she pledged in November 2023 that the administration would place no conditions on aid to Israel. By March 2024 her tone had shifted. She called for an immediate ceasefire of at least six weeks, saying it would "get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in".

  • The first presidential debate on the 27th of June 2024 renewed scrutiny of Biden's age and health, which had been a concern throughout his term. Biden had announced his reelection bid in April 2023 with Harris expected to stay on the ticket. On the 21st of July 2024, he suspended his campaign and immediately endorsed her. Jimmy Carter, the Clintons, the Obamas and the Congressional Black Caucus quickly followed. She became the first nominee who skipped the primaries since Hubert Humphrey in 1968.

    By the 5th of August she had secured the nomination through a virtual roll call of delegates. The next day she named Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate. She accepted the nomination on the 22nd of August, the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention.

    ABC News hosted her debate with Trump in Philadelphia on the 10th of September. Trump tried to portray her as a "radical liberal", while her sharpest attacks focused on abortion rights. Analysts at CNN, Politico, The New York Times and USA Today declared her the winner, and some called it the best debate of her career. Taylor Swift endorsed her afterward. Even so, polls stayed close, and she struggled to show voters she represented change.

    On the 30th of October she gave a half-hour closing argument at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. Her remarks about tax-funded gender-affirming surgery for transgender prisoners became a target. Trump's campaign spent millions on an advertisement saying, "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you." It was the most expensive ad of his campaign.

    She lost to Trump on the 5th of November 2024 and conceded the next day in a speech at her alma mater, Howard University. The Electoral College vote was 312-226. In the popular vote she trailed 48.3 percent to 49.8 percent, making her the first Democratic nominee since John Kerry in 2004 to lose it. Defeats in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were considered key, along with Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina. All 50 states and D.C. shifted rightward from 2020, part of a global backlash against incumbent parties after the 2021-2023 inflation surge. On the 6th of January 2025, she presided over the certification of Trump and JD Vance as winners.

    She left office on the 20th of January 2025, succeeded by Vance as the 50th vice president. She and her husband moved to Los Angeles and helped distribute food to victims of the Palisades Fire. On the 18th of February, she signed with Creative Artists Agency to focus on speaking and publishing. Four days later she received the chairman's prize at the 56th NAACP Image Awards.

    The Trump administration then took several steps against her. On the 21st of March 2025, Trump revoked her security clearance. Normally her Secret Service protection would have expired on the 21st of July 2025, but Biden had signed a directive extending it by a year. On the 28th of August, Trump signed a memorandum canceling it as of the 1st of September.

    On the 30th of April she criticized the administration's handling of the economy and social issues at an Emerge America gala. The next week, Vogue reported her surprise Met Gala appearance, dressed in half white and black. In July she announced she would not run for governor of California. On the 23rd of September 2025 she published her memoir and began an international tour. On the BBC program Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she said she could "possibly" run in 2028. She also wondered whether her silence about urging Biden not to run was an act of "grace or recklessness". For the 2026 midterms, she has campaigned for candidates including Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico in Texas.

  • A RealClear Politics polling average put Harris's favorable rating at a record-low 34.8 percent in August 2022. For most of her tenure she had one of the lowest approval ratings of any vice president. Her numbers rose rapidly once she became the presumptive nominee in July 2024, climbing 13 percent among Democrats, and by the 9th of September she held a net favorable rating.

    High staff turnover shadowed her vice presidency. Her chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, press secretary, deputy press secretary, communications director and chief speechwriter all departed. Critics alleged dysfunction and demoralization. Axios reported that some departures reflected exhaustion from a demanding transition, along with financial and personal considerations.

    In 2024, a 2023 clip from a White House event went viral. In it, Harris asks, "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." After her campaign launched, that and other remarks spread widely as memes.

    Support had its own online culture. The hashtag #KHive formed before and during her 2020 run to back her and defend her from racist and sexist attacks. According to the Daily Dot, Joy Reid first used the term in an August 2017 tweet. Her often boisterous laughter has been called one of her most defining and most dissected traits. She says she got it from her mother.

    Abortion rights were central to her presidential campaign. As of 2020, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund gave her a 100 percent rating, and the National Right to Life Committee gave her 0 percent. EMILY's List called her "our most powerful advocate and messenger" on reproductive rights.

    In 2013, a mutual friend set her up on a blind date with Doug Emhoff, an entertainment lawyer who became partner-in-charge of Venable LLP's Los Angeles office. They married on the 22nd of August 2014 in Santa Barbara, California. She is stepmother to Cole and Ella, Emhoff's children from his earlier marriage to film producer Kerstin Emhoff. As of August 2024, the couple's net worth was estimated at $8 million.

    Harris is a Baptist and belongs to the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco. She is also a member of The Links, an invitation-only service organization of prominent Black American women, and she owns a gun.

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Who is Kamala Harris?

Kamala Harris is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under Joe Biden. She was also California's attorney general and a United States senator, and she was the Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

How many tie-breaking votes did Harris cast as vice president?

She cast 33 tie-breaking votes in the Senate, more than any other vice president. Her 32nd vote on the 5th of December 2023 passed the previous record of 31 held by John C. Calhoun.

Why did Harris become the Democratic nominee in 2024?

On the 21st of July 2024, Joe Biden suspended his reelection campaign and immediately endorsed her. She secured the nomination through a virtual roll call of delegates by the 5th of August and chose Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate.

Did Harris ever hold the title of border czar?

No. News organizations often used the phrase, but Harris rejected it and never held that title. Biden assigned her to work with Mexico and the Northern Triangle nations on the root causes of migration, and she had no authority over the border itself.

What has Harris done since leaving office?

She moved to Los Angeles, signed with Creative Artists Agency, and published a memoir on the 23rd of September 2025. She announced she would not run for California governor, said she could possibly run in 2028, and has campaigned for candidates in the 2026 midterms.

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  2. 355 Things You Need to Know About Kamala HarrisCatherin Kim et al. — August 11, 2020
  3. 6BookThe Truths We Hold: An American JourneyKamala Harris — Penguin Publishing Group — 2019
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  17. 37NewsKamala Harris celebrates unopposed bid for district attorneyHeather Knight — November 7, 2007
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  28. 58NewsKamala Harris Re-Elected As California Attorney GeneralMollie Reilly — November 5, 2014
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  30. 63NewsKamala Harris' foreclosure deal a win for stateBarbara Parker et al. — March 5, 2012
  31. 67Gov. Brown signs Homeowner Bill of RightsABC 7 News — July 12, 2012
  32. 68NewsAtty. Gen. Kamala Harris, tech giants agree on mobile app privacyJessica Guynn et al. — February 22, 2012
  33. 69NewsCalifornia beefing up privacy-protection enforcementMills Elinor — CNET — July 19, 2012
  34. 73NewsSheriff, AG Harris Unveil Program to Curb RecidivismAlex Veiga — March 11, 2015
  35. 76NewsServing Time And Fighting California WildfiresLakshmi Singh — NPR — November 18, 2018
  36. 79NewsKamala Harris Vows to Abandon Prop 8Matt Baume — NBC News — December 2, 2010
  37. 80Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Files U.S. Supreme Court Brief in Support of Marriage EqualityOffice of the California Attorney General — February 27, 2013
  38. 84NewsKamala Harris receives California Democratic Party endorsementChristopher Cadelago — February 27, 2016
  39. 86United States Senator (primary results)California Secretary of State — July 2016
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  43. 95MagazineHere's Where Kamala Harris Stands on Gun ControlChelsey Sanchez — January 20, 2021
  44. 97Kamala Harris' record on marijuana legalizationHolmes Lybrand — February 12, 2019
  45. 99NewsKamala Harris enters 2020 Presidential RaceMatt Viser — January 21, 2019
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  47. 107NewsHarris Reminded to Be Respectful During Intel HearingMary Clare Jalonick — June 7, 2017
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  49. 117NewsTester wants more border personnelPatrick Reilly — January 19, 2018
  50. 126NewsKamala Harris Calls for Federally Mandated BusingJohn McCormack — July 1, 2019
  51. 127NewsHarris says busing should be considered, not mandatedAlexandra Jaffe et al. — July 3, 2019
  52. 131NewsSenate Dems call on DOJ watchdog to investigate BarrMarianne Levine — April 30, 2019
  53. 134NewsBarr defiant amid furor over his handling of Mueller reportLaura Jarrett — CNN — May 2, 2019
  54. 141Press releaseHarris and Blumenthal Demand Special Counsel to Investigate Failure to Preserve Evidence Within DHS and ICEU.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California — November 1, 2019
  55. 144NewsSenate Judiciary Pauses Nominations for Impeachment Trial (1)Madison Adler — January 15, 2020
  56. 147Rand Paul and Kamala Harris Team Up to Reform Bail PracticesDawchelle Hamilton — NBC News — September 10, 2017
  57. 150NewsThank you, California.Kamala Harris — January 18, 2021
  58. 151NewsNewsom taps California election chief Padilla for US SenateKathleen Ronayne — December 22, 2020
  59. 154MembersCongressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
  60. 155MembershipCongressional Black Caucus
  61. 157Sen. Kamala Harris not ruling out 2020 White House runKasie Hunt — NBC News — June 24, 2018
  62. 159NewsKamala Harris to run for president in 2020Maeve Reston — CNN — January 21, 2019
  63. 163NewsKamala Harris Makes the Case That Joe Biden Should Pass That Torch to HerMatt Flegenheimer et al. — June 27, 2019
  64. 167NewsHow Kamala Harris's Campaign UnraveledJonathan Martin et al. — November 19, 2019
  65. 168NewsWhat Happened to the Kamala Harris Campaign?Perry Bacon Jr. — October 8, 2019
  66. 175I am suspending my campaign todayKamala Harris — December 3, 2019
  67. 176NewsSen. Kamala D. Harris endorses Joe Biden for presidentCleve R. Jr. Wootson — March 8, 2020
  68. 178Clyburn calls for Democrats to 'shut this primary down' if Biden has big nightJane C. Timm et al. — NBC News — March 10, 2020
  69. 180NewsKamala Harris 'would be honored' to be Joe Biden's running mateJoe Garofoli et al. — April 17, 2020
  70. 181NewsMinneapolis unrest shakes up VP shortlistMarc Caputo et al. — May 31, 2020
  71. 182NewsKamala Harris, Front-runner (Again)David Leonhardt — June 12, 2020
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  73. 198NewsPence became ultimate tie-breaker in 2017Alicia Cohn — December 31, 2017
  74. 201Vice President Harris breaks record for casting the most tie-breaking votesMegan Lebowitz et al. — NBC News — December 5, 2023
  75. 202NewsBiden to have routine colonoscopy, transfer power to HarrisZeke Miller — November 19, 2021
  76. 207NewsBiden tasks Harris with 'stemming the migration' on southern borderLauren Egan et al. — NBC News — March 24, 2021
  77. 208NewsHarris to lead administration's efforts to stem migration at borderTim Perry et al. — CBS News — March 24, 2021
  78. 211NewsTranscriptsEd Lavandera — CNN — June 25, 2021
  79. 214MagazineKamala Harris Wasn't the 'Border Czar'. Here's What She DidVera Bergengruen — July 23, 2024
  80. 216Harris border confusion haunts her new campaignStef W. Kight — July 24, 2024
  81. 217'Border czar'? GOP talking point distorts VP Harrris' roleMaria Ramirez Uribe — July 24, 2024
  82. 218NewsWhy Republicans Keep Calling Kamala Harris the 'Border Czar'Jazmine Ulloa et al. — July 18, 2024
  83. 219NewsHarris takes first steps onto world stage, into migration spotlightLauren Egan — NBC News — June 7, 2021
  84. 220NewsHarris' blunt message in Guatemala: 'Do not come' to U.S.Sabrina Rodriguez — June 7, 2021
  85. 227NewsFresh woe for Kamala Harris as another adviser quitsHugh Tomlinson — March 17, 2022
  86. 234NewsBarack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris for presidentEbony Davis — CNN — July 26, 2024
  87. 239NewsHarris Has Enough Delegates to Clinch Nomination for PresidentGregory Korte et al. — Bloomberg News — July 22, 2024
  88. 240Harris picks Walz for vice presidentAmie Parnes et al. — August 6, 2024
  89. 241News12 highlights from the 2024 Democratic National ConventionCaitlin Yilek — CBS News — August 23, 2024
  90. 243Trump is wrong. Harris is not a communist.Amy Sherman — September 4, 2024
  91. 247Harris Dominates as Trump Gets Defensive: 6 Takeaways From the DebateShane Goldmacher et al. — September 11, 2024
  92. 249NewsTrump says he won't debate Harris again before electionMarianne LeVine et al. — September 12, 2024
  93. 252Fact check: Kamala Harris's speech at the White House EllipseLouis Jacobson et al. — October 30, 2024
  94. 254Why anti-transgender political ads are dominating the airwaves this electionLaura Barrón-López et al. — November 2, 2024
  95. 258NewsDemocrats join 2024's graveyard of incumbentsJohn Burn-Murdoch — November 7, 2024
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  98. 261NewsWhat the 'year of democracy' taught us, in 6 chartsJohn Burn-Murdoch — December 29, 2024
  99. 266Harris heading home to Los Angeles to help fire victimsChristopher Cadelago — January 20, 2025
  100. 267Kamala Harris Signs With CAA to Plan Next ChapterErik Hayden — February 18, 2025
  101. 269NewsTrump revokes security clearance for Harris, Clinton, and criticsJaroslav Lukiv et al. — BBC — March 22, 2025
  102. 277NewsKamala Harris says she may run for president againNaftali Bendavid — October 25, 2025
  103. 278NewsKamala Harris 'concerned' she did not ask Biden to quit raceLaura Kuenssberg — October 26, 2025
  104. 282NewsKamala Harris's immigration policies, explainedMaria Sacchetti et al. — September 10, 2024
  105. 284NewsKamala Harris Will Shift on Gaza Only if We Make HerY. L. Al-Sheikh et al. — July 26, 2024
  106. 286NewsHarris breaks from 'Bidenomics' in North CarolinaMyah Ward et al. — August 16, 2024
  107. 290MagazineAbortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala HarrisEmily Mullin — July 23, 2024
  108. 294NewsEmily's List backs Kamala Harris' Senate bidSeema Mehta — March 19, 2015
  109. 297Press releaseHarris, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Ban Use of Gay and Trans Panic DefenseSenator Kamala Harris — July 16, 2018
  110. 298NewsDemocratic 2020 hopefuls tout LGBTQ plans at town hallJulia Manchester — October 10, 2019
  111. 303NewsSenate Passes Bipartisan Criminal Justice BillNicholas Fandos — December 18, 2018
  112. 313NewsSecond family becomes first to affix a mezuzah on executive home'Jasmine Wright — CNN — November 20, 2021
  113. 314Douglas C. EmhoffVenable LLP
  114. 315NewsKamala Harris married in Santa Barbara ceremonyDavid Siders — August 25, 2014
  115. 316Sen. Kamala Harris on Being 'Momala'Kamala Harris — May 10, 2019
  116. 317Here's How Much Kamala Harris is WorthKyle Khan-Mullins — May 26, 2024
  117. 318MagazineWhat We Know About Kamala Harris' Net WorthSimmone Shah — July 23, 2024
  118. 325NewsKamala Harris, gun owner, talks firearms at debateChris Megerian — September 10, 2024
  119. 326Yes, Kamala Harris Owns a HandgunKellen Browning — The New York Times
  120. 328News'Not a healthy environment': Kamala Harris' office rife with dissentChristopher Cadelago et al. — December 4, 2021
  121. 329NewsBurnout, money, fear drive turnover in Harris's officeAlexi McCammond et al. — December 3, 2021
  122. 330NewsWhat's going on with Kamala's poll numbers?Katelyn Fossett — November 12, 2021
  123. 336NewsThe Triumphant Comeback of the Kamala Harris MemeAmanda Hess — July 23, 2024
  124. 338NewsCoconuts, 'brat summer' and that laugh: The memeing of Kamala HarrisNeenma Ebeledike et al. — July 24, 2024
  125. 340NewsWhat's in Kamala Harris's laugh?Maura Judkis et al. — July 31, 2024
  126. 341NewsKamala Harris defends 'cackle' derided by her rivalsKeiran Southern — April 30, 2024
  127. 342BookFriends from the Beginning: The Berkeley Village That Raised Kamala and MeStacey L. Johnson-Batiste — Twelve Books — 2021
  128. 343BookKamala's WayDan Morain — Simon & Schuster — 2021

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