Sen. Kamala Harris made history as Joe Biden's running mate in his 2020 presidential bid. Here's a look back at her career, and her historic nomination.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., made history when it was confirmed that she would be former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate in his 2020 presidential bid. The announcement Tuesday makes her the first Black woman and the first Asian-American person on a major party's presidential ticket.Harris was born in Oakland, California, to Shyamala Gopalan, a breast-cancer scientist who immigrated from India, and Donald Harris, a professor of economics who immigrated from Jamaica.
In 2010, Harris became California's first female attorney general and was reelected by a wide margin in 2014. As district attorney, Harris strongly indicted truancy, stating that “a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime” in anHarris also received heat for fighting to release fewer prisoners, even after the Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its prison population by 33,000 in 2011, according toHarris also instituted a number of progressive reforms as district attorney.
In the Senate, she serves on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on the Budget, and the Committee on the Judiciary.
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