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Festival organizers say if you didn’t receive a tracking number by this week, you should \u003ca href=\"https://support.frontgatetickets.com/hc/en-us/requests/new\">submit a request with Front Gate Tickets\u003c/a> as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"outsidelandsroadclosures\">\u003c/a>Getting to Outside Lands by car: Where are the road closures?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside Lands organizers (and KQED reporters) recommend ticket holders\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\"> \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> drive to the festival\u003c/a> — and when you read our information about road closures and the parking situation, you may understand why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Road closures for Outside Lands\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/547/Golden-Gate-Park-Road-Closures\">entrances closed on the north side of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>, according to the park’s official website: Transverse Drive at Crossover Drive, JFK Drive at Transverse Drive, 30th Avenue, 36th Avenue, 43rd Avenue (Chain of Lakes), 47th Avenue and The Great Highway at JFK Drive.[aside postID=arts_13956373 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2156725960-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the entrances closed on the south side of the park: Martin Luther King Jr. Drive at Crossover Drive, 25th Avenue, Sunset Boulevard at Irving Street, 41st Avenue (Chain of Lakes) and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive at Lincoln Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/assets/ol24_publicletter_map.pdf\"> map of the road closures near the park\u003c/a>. Roads will be closed from Thursday, Aug. 8 at 8 p.m. to Sunday, Aug. 13 at 11 p.m..\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999217\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-2024-Road-Closures-Golden-Gate-Park.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-2024-Road-Closures-Golden-Gate-Park.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-2024-Road-Closures-Golden-Gate-Park-800x375.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-2024-Road-Closures-Golden-Gate-Park-1020x478.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-2024-Road-Closures-Golden-Gate-Park-160x75.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-2024-Road-Closures-Golden-Gate-Park-1536x720.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing the various road closures around Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands 2024. \u003ccite>(SF Outside Lands)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you have any \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/311/\">questions about road closures or restrictions\u003c/a>, you can call 415-965-8001 or email community@sfoutsidelands.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where can I get picked up or dropped off at Outside Lands?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a good pickup or drop-off point — either for yourself or because you’re someone else’s ride — Outside Lands recommends \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">“several blocks north or south of the park”\u003c/a> — particularly advising that you try Geary Boulevard or Balboa Street to the north or Irving Street to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Outer Richmond (the north side of the park near the high school), you can get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024\">picked up or dropped off\u003c/a> at:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The north side of Irving, between 25th and 27th avenues,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The north side of Balboa, between 30th and 31st avenues,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The west side of 30th Avenue, between Balboa and Anza.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advice for using rideshares and taxis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">If you use rideshare apps like Lyft or Uber\u003c/a>, the official Outside Lands pickup and drop-off locations are Balboa & 30th Avenue or Irving Street between 25th and 27th avenues. Be aware that these apps will impose dynamic pricing for an event like Outside Lands, which will make even a short ride much more expensive than usual.[aside postID=arts_13962095 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MiLES.MAIN_-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024#TaxiStands\">using a taxi to get to or from Outside Lands\u003c/a> any time from Friday, Aug. 9 at 9 a.m. to Monday, Aug. 11 at 2 a.m., there are taxi stands:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Southside of Fulton Street between 28th and 29th avenues\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Southside of Fulton Street between 24th and 25th avenues\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Northside of Fulton Street between 33rd and 34th avenues\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Northside of Irving Street between 26th and 27th avenues\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there no-go areas for pickup and drop-off for Outside Lands?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFMTA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024\">these areas are strictly forbidden to pick someone up or drop someone off\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outer Sunset, south side of the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lincoln Way, between 25th and 41st avenues.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Outer Richmond, north side of the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fulton, between 26th and 37th avenues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th and 37th avenues, between Fulton and Cabrillo.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Park from Friday at 11 a.m. to Sunday at 11:59 p.m.:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>All streets in Golden Gate Park, including Crossover.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"parkingoutsidelands\">\u003c/a>Where can I find parking for Outside Lands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s get this out of the way: There is no “official” general parking for Outside Lands. (Jump straight to \u003ca href=\"#accessibilityoutsidelands\">more information on accessible parking below\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, if you’re choosing to try to park near Outside Lands, break-ins are common in San Francisco — so leave nothing visible in your vehicle, and if at all possible, leave your trunk exposed to show it’s empty. Never leave any electronics like laptops in your vehicle, even if you think they’re hidden. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">Read our full guide to reducing your chances of suffering a car break-in in San Francisco\u003c/a> (and if you’re unlucky enough to have your car broken into, our guide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">how to claim the costs of window repair and stolen items from your insurance\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else would you like to read a guide about?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Josh-Withers-scaled-e1635549076106.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd at a nighttime outdoor concert.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A packed crowd at the Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park in 2019, the last time the event was held before the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003ccite>(Josh Withers/Outside Lands)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I pay to use a resident’s parking spot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools near Golden Gate Park sell their parking during Outside Lands to fundraise money, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.argonnesf.org/outsidelandsparking.html\">Argonne Elementary School (which does not take reservations.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents around Golden Gate Park may also sell their parking spaces to festival visitors. You can find these on Reddit, Facebook or even by trolling through the Sunset District in person and seeing who has signed up. If you choose to go this route to find parking, stay extra vigilant for scams, and make sure you’re always sending money to the right person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about blocking a driveway, even if it’s mine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SFMTA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024\">the San Francisco Transportation Code allows residents to park in the street and block their own driveway\u003c/a> “provided the driveway does not serve more than two tenants.” Any multifamily units of three or more, SFMTA says, may not block their own driveway. Vehicles may also never be parked on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Outside Lands, the SFMTA will enforce blocked driveways “on a complaint basis only,” SFMTA says. Of course, that’s not giving you free rein to block a person’s driveway — they’ll almost certainly make that complaint and have you towed if they don’t recognize your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live near Golden Gate Park, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/311/\">check Outside Lands’ Neighborhood 311 advisory page for local residents\u003c/a> for any updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"outsidelandsbartmuni\">\u003c/a>How to get to Outside Lands using public transit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting to Outside Lands using SF Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/imce-images/2022/map_-_outside_lands_-_transportation_map.png\">SF Muni has a useful map of your options for transportation routes to Outside Lands (PNG)\u003c/a>, and the agency has its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/plan-your-next-golden-gate-park-trip-muni\"> guide on getting to Golden Gate Park on Muni.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024#MuniService\">Muni will provide extra service\u003c/a> on the N Judah and 5R Fulton Rapid. However, remember: The extra service on 5R will not serve the entire route. Each night of the festival, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-11-13-2023#MuniService\">there will be a Muni 5X Fulton Express service from Golden Gate Park to Civic Center BART Station\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-11-13-2023#MuniService\">Bookmark the SFMTA website\u003c/a> for a comprehensive list of extra stops provided by Muni for the weekend of Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024#MuniService\">Other public transit advisories\u003c/a>, as noted on SFMTA’s website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/7-haight-noriega\">7 Haight/Noriega\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/28-19th-avenue\"> 28 19th Avenue\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/29-sunset\">29 Sunset\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/44-oshaughnessy\">44 O’Shaughnessy\u003c/a> serve areas of Golden Gate Park and may be subject to crowds.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/38-geary\">38 Geary\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/38r-geary-rapid\">38R Geary Rapid routes\u003c/a>, which are four blocks north of the Fulton/30th entrance to Golden Gate Park, may also be considered as alternative options to and from the event.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/\">plan your Muni trip on 511.org\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/\">check Muni’s arrival information on Next Bus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using the official Outside Lands shuttle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hop a ride on the \u003ca href=\"https://outsidelands.frontgatetickets.com/event/4am8dj5mr25vspoj\">Outside Lands’ shuttle, which departs from the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium\u003c/a> to the south entrance of Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park. Civic Center BART station is next to the Bill Graham Auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://outsidelands.frontgatetickets.com/event/4am8dj5mr25vspoj\">These “coach-style buses” are pre-paid and cost $29.50\u003c/a> for a one-day pass (with a service fee.) As of Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://outsidelands.frontgatetickets.com/event/4am8dj5mr25vspoj\">only the highest tier of three-day ticket is available for $44.50\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service will begin running each day at 11 a.m. and run “continuously all day with limited coverage” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., with the last shuttle to the festival leaving Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at 8 p.m. As for getting back, return shuttles run until one hour after the music ends each night, festival organizers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Lands officials strongly recommend taking BART to Civic Center to pick up the official shuttle, but if you do drive, paid parking is available in the Civic Center Parking Garage adjacent to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for a fee (entrance at McAllister Street between Polk Street and Larkin Street.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting to Outside Lands on BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearest BART station to Golden Gate Park is Civic Center. From there, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/plan-your-next-golden-gate-park-trip-muni\">travel onward to Outside Lands using SF Muni\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">use the official paid Outside Lands shuttle,\u003c/a> which departs from the nearby Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni-1020x441.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni-1536x664.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing SF Muni routes around Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands 2024. \u003ccite>(SFMTA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">BART service will run until “around midnight” on all three days\u003c/a>, the Outside Lands official guidance says. Parking at BART stations with BART-run parking lots is free after 3 p.m. on Friday and free all day on Saturday and Sunday (except for the Milpitas and Berryessa/North San Jose stations, which still charge on weekends).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/planner\">use the BART Trip Planner to hash out the details.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting to Outside Lands by bike\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can park your bikes at the festival, with parking available at the eastern and southern parts of the festival site. \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/assets/ol24_show_bike_map.pdf\">See a map of bike route closures and detours for Outside Lands.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/bikes/bay-wheels\">Bay Wheels, run by rideshare app Lyft\u003c/a>, is available at the festival on JFK Drive, just east of Transverse Drive, to park your bike or get a bike home. \u003ca href=\"https://account.baywheels.com/map\">Use this website to find Bay Wheels near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make a plan for getting home each night (and know your last transit option)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">Music ends at 10 p.m. on all days.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Ginsburg, general manager of San Francisco Parks and Recreation, told KQED in 2023 that exit routes are “very well marked and the strategies for both entering and leaving the festival are pretty well established at this point and we’ll have tons of security and there’s a lot of lightning in the area to keep people safe as they exit the festival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/planner\">BART’s Trip Planner\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/muni-transit\">SFMTA’s Trip Planner\u003c/a> to check what time the last service of the day is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re hoping to get a rideshare like Uber or Lyft home from Outside Lands, remember \u003ca href=\"#outsidelandsroadclosures\">those recommended pickup locations around Golden Gate Park \u003c/a>— and that dynamic surge pricing for these services will almost certainly mean that ordering an Uber or Lyft home will be pretty pricey. (If you’re determined, you may wish to consider pre-organizing a crew to share the ride and split the cost.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"wristbandoutsidelands\">\u003c/a>Can I take off my wristband or leave Outside Lands to reenter?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, keep your wristband on your wrist if you’re attending multiple days of Outside Lands. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/news/know-before-you-go/\">It’s waterproof, so you can shower with it.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketholders all get a wristband — and festival organizers want you to “treat it like cash.” In other words, the festival won’t replace your wristband if it gets lost or stolen. Do not cut it or twist your wristband because it can fray, and the festival will not replace it in those cases, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-day reentry is not allowed. But if you \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to leave the festival, festival organizers ask that you speak with a supervising staff member at an exit before leaving to work out the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"accessibilityoutsidelands\">\u003c/a>What to know about accessibility at Outside Lands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/accessibility/\">There is a designated ADA Entrance at 36th Avenue & JFK\u003c/a>. This is where the Access Center is, and you can request a golf cart inside or get a collar for your service animal. Accessible pickup and drop-off is at 36th and Fulton. If you are taking a rideshare, let your driver know to tell the parking staff that you need access to the ADA parking, which is also at the 36th and Fulton entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is limited ADA parking available, and it is first come, first served. You can access this parking by entering 36th Avenue and Fulton and talking to the gate agents. It is worth noting that some of the ADA parking is on roads with uneven terrain, with a walk to the ADA gate. Notify the parking staff so they can request a shuttle for you to the gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a lot of demand for shuttles, so Outside Lands is limiting “capacity to our disabled patrons plus one companion. Because of the ‘limited number’ of shuttles, Outside Lands organizers advise disabled festival goers to “please expect a wait, and plan your requests accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Lands provides elevated platforms at the following stages: Sutro, Twin Peaks and Lands End stages. \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/accessibility/\">There are “banquet style” folding chairs available at all of the platforms.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ADA restrooms are next to all of the accessible viewing platforms. Restrooms at Outside Lands also have accessible options at the ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival organizers recommend that you email \u003ca href=\"mailto:access@sfoutsidelands.com\">access@sfoutsidelands.com\u003c/a> ahead of time with any accessibility questions or requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I need to bring a jacket to Outside Lands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s August. Yes, it’s Golden Gate Park. Yes, you still need to bring a jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can keep an eye on \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.7771&lon=-122.4196\">the National Weather Service’s forecast for San Francisco\u003c/a> as the festival draws closer. Right now, the forecast in the City calls for “mostly sunny” weather this weekend, with highs near 69 on Friday, 70 on Saturday and 68 on Sunday. But Golden Gate Park is near the ocean, and it gets \u003cem>cold\u003c/em> even when other parts of San Francisco are toasty. Forgetting layers for a day in the park is a classic mistake to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, another outfit suggestion from experienced KQED reporters: Comfortable shoes you don’t mind getting dirty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-earplugs-for-concerts/\">buying earplugs that allow for sounds to get through for around $30\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"banneditemsoutsidelands\">\u003c/a>What can I bring to Outside Lands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/news/know-before-you-go/\">Some items you can bring to Outside Lands\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clear backpacks and bags.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Non-clear small bags, fanny packs and purses up to 6” x 8” x 3”.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Empty dedicated hydration packs with a capacity under 2.5L/150 inches and just one pocket (standard-size backpacks with hydration bladders will not be allowed into the festival.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/sustainability/refillable-water-program/\">Ticketholders are encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle\u003c/a> and refill it at one of the water stations around the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://secure.mobilecharginglockers.com/affiliate/website/event/outside-lands-locker-rental-2024\">reserve a locker\u003c/a> on the festival grounds in advance, but be sure to do so as soon as possible, as these reservations can sell out quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957311\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration showing the bag policy at Outside Lands \u003ccite>(sfoutsidelands.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some items you \u003cem>can’t\u003c/em> bring to Outside Lands\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Glow-sticks, laser pointers (however glow bracelets and necklaces are allowed).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Weapons, fireworks (including pocket knives).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pets (apart from service dogs).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Glass or cans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video or audio recording equipment (including drones, GoPros and selfie sticks).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Professional still camera equipment with “a detachable lens longer than 2 inches, tripods, big zooms or commercial use rigs.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skateboards, scooters or bikes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Strollers, wagons or carts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hammocks, umbrellas, picnic baskets, coolers, liquids (excluding personal-sized hand sanitizers).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chairs with legs or tents.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">See the full list of items allowed or prohibited at Outside Lands.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"food-outside-lands\">\u003c/a>Can I bring my own food into Outside Lands, and what food is available there?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">The Outside Lands FAQ and venue information\u003c/a> states that bringing your own alcohol into the festival is prohibited, but does not explicitly ban bringing your own food. Just remember: the \u003ca href=\"#banneditemsoutsidelands\">Outside Lands bag policy prohibits common kinds of non-clear backpacks.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/food-and-drink/taste-of-the-bay-area/\">see the Outside Lands food vendor list ahead of time (DOCX)\u003c/a>, with vegan options marked, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/experiences/\">the drinks list (including alcoholic and non-alcoholic options)(DOCX\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ozi9fn7wdoreb0e74k1dj/OL23-Drink-Release_7-28-Update.docx?rlkey=5hfb8rfe22zxi8mjp1qg8wdvs&dl=0\">)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as KQED Arts reported back in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10139926/how-to-survive-outside-lands-a-veterans-guide\">another option apparently favored by some locals is to “bury bottles of liquor in Golden Gate Park a week before the festival\u003c/a> and dig it up later after you’ve slid past security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Any other useful Outside Lands tips I should know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are looking for shortcuts to other stages (like a tunnel between Polo Field and Sutro Stage) or emergency exits, \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/assets/outsidelands24_patronmap.png\">save the festival’s official map to your Camera Roll (JPG)\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some other insider tips from KQED reporters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you are trying to see someone on the Polo Field, get there early. It gets very crowded quickly.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There have been bleachers and ADA platforms in Hellman Hollow, near the Twin Peaks stage.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sometimes artists hang out at the food trucks, talking to fans (and, if you are lucky, performing a quick song.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13862534/headed-to-outside-lands-heres-everything-you-need-to-know#:~:text=The%20festival%20has%20a%20Sober,sane%20among%20all%20party%20people.\">There is a sober tent available at Outside Lands\u003c/a> for those who feel like they need someone to talk to among the partying. It is near the food trucks.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You can now get \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13956845/legal-weddings-married-outisde-lands-city-hall\">married at Outside Lands.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What should I do in a crowd?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-11-13-2023\">SFMTA expects around 75,000 people each day of the festival\u003c/a> — and crowds can be overwhelming for some, especially with predictions of a \u003ca href=\"https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/08/06/chappell-roan-made-lollapalooza-history/\">huge turnout for singer Chappell Roan\u003c/a>. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/11/1054765905/what-went-wrong-at-astroworld-the-deadly-dynamics-of-crowd-surge\">past tragic incidents at other festivals\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-outside-lands-to-have-better-exits-to-prevent-astroworld-festival-like-crowd-crush\">Outside Lands fans even asking for better exits to prevent crowd crushes\u003c/a>, it does not hurt to be cautious and prepared. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053828800/south-korea-seoul-halloween-crowd-safety-tips\">Read NPR’s full guide on what to do if you find yourself caught in a crowd crush\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mehdi Moussaïd, a research scientist in Berlin who studies crowd behavior, rely on your instincts and senses if you feel like the crowd is getting too dense. If you get stuck in a crush, move with the crowd and put your arms out in front of your chest and hold them there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this position, you would have some space, just a little bit, to push for half a centimeter or just 1 centimeter — enough for you to keep breathing,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053828800/south-korea-seoul-halloween-crowd-safety-tips\">Moussaïd told NPR in 2022\u003c/a>. “It’s not going to be comfortable. You’re going to be feeling really bad, but at least you’ll survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I can’t afford tickets — are there other related performances I can enjoy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/night-shows/night-shows/\">Outside Lands has several after-parties around San Francisco for which you can get tickets\u003c/a> from Thursday through Sunday, including one featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/princess-w-willow-pill-the-official-outside-lands-afterparty-tickets-940612757077\">RuPaul Drag Race winner Willow Pill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Gabe Meline, Nastia Voynovskaya and Carly Severn contributed to this story\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/explainers\">the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13956373/outside-lands-lineup-2024-san-francisco\">San Francisco’s biggest music festival, Outside Lands\u003c/a>, is coming to Golden Gate Park this weekend with a 2024 lineup that includes The Killers, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Post Malone, Grace Jones and Victoria Monét.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you nabbed tickets to the \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/\">three-day festival that starts Friday, Aug. 9 and lasts through Sunday, Aug. 11\u003c/a>, you might have questions about parking, public transit, the bag policy and more. After all, Outside Lands is a huge, sprawling event that takes over a large part of Golden Gate Park and impacts a lot of the surrounding areas of the Richmond and Sunset districts in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So keep reading for our guide to this year’s Outside Lands festival with everything you need to know, from what to bring to Outside Lands, the weather in Golden Gate Park, how to buy tickets and how will call works, maps of the festival, road closures and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#outsidelandstickets\">Can I still buy tickets for Outside Lands?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#outsidelands-will-call-box-office\">Where is the Outside Lands will call or box office to pick up my wristband?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#food-outside-lands\">Can I bring my own food to Outside Lands?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#parkingoutsidelands\">Where can I find parking for Outside Lands?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#outsidelandsroadclosures\">What are the Outside Lands road closures, and where can I get dropped off?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#wristbandoutsidelands\">Can I take off my wristband or leave Outside Lands to reenter?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#outsidelandsbartmuni\">What’s the best way to get to Golden Gate Park using public transit?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#banneditemsoutsidelands\">What are the bag rules at Outside Lands?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"outsidelandstickets\">\u003c/a>Can I still get tickets for Outside Lands 2024?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/tickets/\">single-day tickets and three-day tickets are still available for Outside Lands.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous years, tickets have frequently sold out a few days before the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the Outside Lands 2024 schedule, and when does the festival start?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Outside Lands will call opens at 10 a.m., gates open at 11 a.m., and the music lineup begins at 12 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a look at \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/schedule/#/\">the Outside Lands lineup and full schedule\u003c/a> for each day to see when each act is playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"outsidelands-will-call-box-office\">\u003c/a>Where is the will call to pick up my wristband for Outside Lands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you bought your tickets after July 30, you’ll have to pick up your wristband at will call in Golden Gate Park during the week of the festival or when you first arrive at Outside Lands. (The box office at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is no longer open for picking up Outside Lands wristbands.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can pick up your wristband at the Marx Meadow will call (25th & Fulton) in Golden Gate Park, which is open:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wednesday, Aug. 7 (1–7 p.m.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Thursday, Aug. 8 (1–7 p.m.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Friday, Aug. 9 (10 a.m.–9 p.m.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Saturday, Aug. 10 (10 a.m.–9 p.m.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sunday, Aug. 11 (10 a.m.–8 p.m.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you have a VIP or Golden Gate Club ticket, you can use the VIP will call at 36th and JFK Drive, near the VIP entrance, which is open on festival days only (10:30 a.m.–8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10:30 a.m.–7 p.m. Sunday.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you purchased your Outside Lands tickets before July 30 but haven’t received your wristbands yet? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024#TaxiStands\">using a taxi to get to or from Outside Lands\u003c/a> any time from Friday, Aug. 9 at 9 a.m. to Monday, Aug. 11 at 2 a.m., there are taxi stands:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Southside of Fulton Street between 28th and 29th avenues\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Southside of Fulton Street between 24th and 25th avenues\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Northside of Fulton Street between 33rd and 34th avenues\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Northside of Irving Street between 26th and 27th avenues\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there no-go areas for pickup and drop-off for Outside Lands?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFMTA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024\">these areas are strictly forbidden to pick someone up or drop someone off\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outer Sunset, south side of the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lincoln Way, between 25th and 41st avenues.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Outer Richmond, north side of the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fulton, between 26th and 37th avenues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th and 37th avenues, between Fulton and Cabrillo.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Park from Friday at 11 a.m. to Sunday at 11:59 p.m.:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>All streets in Golden Gate Park, including Crossover.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"parkingoutsidelands\">\u003c/a>Where can I find parking for Outside Lands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s get this out of the way: There is no “official” general parking for Outside Lands. (Jump straight to \u003ca href=\"#accessibilityoutsidelands\">more information on accessible parking below\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, if you’re choosing to try to park near Outside Lands, break-ins are common in San Francisco — so leave nothing visible in your vehicle, and if at all possible, leave your trunk exposed to show it’s empty. Never leave any electronics like laptops in your vehicle, even if you think they’re hidden. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">Read our full guide to reducing your chances of suffering a car break-in in San Francisco\u003c/a> (and if you’re unlucky enough to have your car broken into, our guide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">how to claim the costs of window repair and stolen items from your insurance\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else would you like to read a guide about?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Josh-Withers-scaled-e1635549076106.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd at a nighttime outdoor concert.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A packed crowd at the Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park in 2019, the last time the event was held before the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003ccite>(Josh Withers/Outside Lands)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I pay to use a resident’s parking spot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools near Golden Gate Park sell their parking during Outside Lands to fundraise money, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.argonnesf.org/outsidelandsparking.html\">Argonne Elementary School (which does not take reservations.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents around Golden Gate Park may also sell their parking spaces to festival visitors. You can find these on Reddit, Facebook or even by trolling through the Sunset District in person and seeing who has signed up. If you choose to go this route to find parking, stay extra vigilant for scams, and make sure you’re always sending money to the right person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about blocking a driveway, even if it’s mine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SFMTA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024\">the San Francisco Transportation Code allows residents to park in the street and block their own driveway\u003c/a> “provided the driveway does not serve more than two tenants.” Any multifamily units of three or more, SFMTA says, may not block their own driveway. Vehicles may also never be parked on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Outside Lands, the SFMTA will enforce blocked driveways “on a complaint basis only,” SFMTA says. Of course, that’s not giving you free rein to block a person’s driveway — they’ll almost certainly make that complaint and have you towed if they don’t recognize your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live near Golden Gate Park, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/311/\">check Outside Lands’ Neighborhood 311 advisory page for local residents\u003c/a> for any updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"outsidelandsbartmuni\">\u003c/a>How to get to Outside Lands using public transit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting to Outside Lands using SF Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/imce-images/2022/map_-_outside_lands_-_transportation_map.png\">SF Muni has a useful map of your options for transportation routes to Outside Lands (PNG)\u003c/a>, and the agency has its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/plan-your-next-golden-gate-park-trip-muni\"> guide on getting to Golden Gate Park on Muni.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024#MuniService\">Muni will provide extra service\u003c/a> on the N Judah and 5R Fulton Rapid. However, remember: The extra service on 5R will not serve the entire route. Each night of the festival, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-11-13-2023#MuniService\">there will be a Muni 5X Fulton Express service from Golden Gate Park to Civic Center BART Station\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-11-13-2023#MuniService\">Bookmark the SFMTA website\u003c/a> for a comprehensive list of extra stops provided by Muni for the weekend of Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-9-11-2024#MuniService\">Other public transit advisories\u003c/a>, as noted on SFMTA’s website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/7-haight-noriega\">7 Haight/Noriega\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/28-19th-avenue\"> 28 19th Avenue\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/29-sunset\">29 Sunset\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/44-oshaughnessy\">44 O’Shaughnessy\u003c/a> serve areas of Golden Gate Park and may be subject to crowds.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/38-geary\">38 Geary\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/38r-geary-rapid\">38R Geary Rapid routes\u003c/a>, which are four blocks north of the Fulton/30th entrance to Golden Gate Park, may also be considered as alternative options to and from the event.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/\">plan your Muni trip on 511.org\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/\">check Muni’s arrival information on Next Bus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using the official Outside Lands shuttle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hop a ride on the \u003ca href=\"https://outsidelands.frontgatetickets.com/event/4am8dj5mr25vspoj\">Outside Lands’ shuttle, which departs from the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium\u003c/a> to the south entrance of Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park. Civic Center BART station is next to the Bill Graham Auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://outsidelands.frontgatetickets.com/event/4am8dj5mr25vspoj\">These “coach-style buses” are pre-paid and cost $29.50\u003c/a> for a one-day pass (with a service fee.) As of Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://outsidelands.frontgatetickets.com/event/4am8dj5mr25vspoj\">only the highest tier of three-day ticket is available for $44.50\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service will begin running each day at 11 a.m. and run “continuously all day with limited coverage” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., with the last shuttle to the festival leaving Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at 8 p.m. As for getting back, return shuttles run until one hour after the music ends each night, festival organizers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Lands officials strongly recommend taking BART to Civic Center to pick up the official shuttle, but if you do drive, paid parking is available in the Civic Center Parking Garage adjacent to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for a fee (entrance at McAllister Street between Polk Street and Larkin Street.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting to Outside Lands on BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearest BART station to Golden Gate Park is Civic Center. From there, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/plan-your-next-golden-gate-park-trip-muni\">travel onward to Outside Lands using SF Muni\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">use the official paid Outside Lands shuttle,\u003c/a> which departs from the nearby Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni-1020x441.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Outside-Lands-Public-Transit-BART-Muni-1536x664.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing SF Muni routes around Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands 2024. \u003ccite>(SFMTA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">BART service will run until “around midnight” on all three days\u003c/a>, the Outside Lands official guidance says. Parking at BART stations with BART-run parking lots is free after 3 p.m. on Friday and free all day on Saturday and Sunday (except for the Milpitas and Berryessa/North San Jose stations, which still charge on weekends).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/planner\">use the BART Trip Planner to hash out the details.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting to Outside Lands by bike\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can park your bikes at the festival, with parking available at the eastern and southern parts of the festival site. \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/assets/ol24_show_bike_map.pdf\">See a map of bike route closures and detours for Outside Lands.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/bikes/bay-wheels\">Bay Wheels, run by rideshare app Lyft\u003c/a>, is available at the festival on JFK Drive, just east of Transverse Drive, to park your bike or get a bike home. \u003ca href=\"https://account.baywheels.com/map\">Use this website to find Bay Wheels near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make a plan for getting home each night (and know your last transit option)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">Music ends at 10 p.m. on all days.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Ginsburg, general manager of San Francisco Parks and Recreation, told KQED in 2023 that exit routes are “very well marked and the strategies for both entering and leaving the festival are pretty well established at this point and we’ll have tons of security and there’s a lot of lightning in the area to keep people safe as they exit the festival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/planner\">BART’s Trip Planner\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/muni-transit\">SFMTA’s Trip Planner\u003c/a> to check what time the last service of the day is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re hoping to get a rideshare like Uber or Lyft home from Outside Lands, remember \u003ca href=\"#outsidelandsroadclosures\">those recommended pickup locations around Golden Gate Park \u003c/a>— and that dynamic surge pricing for these services will almost certainly mean that ordering an Uber or Lyft home will be pretty pricey. (If you’re determined, you may wish to consider pre-organizing a crew to share the ride and split the cost.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"wristbandoutsidelands\">\u003c/a>Can I take off my wristband or leave Outside Lands to reenter?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, keep your wristband on your wrist if you’re attending multiple days of Outside Lands. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/news/know-before-you-go/\">It’s waterproof, so you can shower with it.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketholders all get a wristband — and festival organizers want you to “treat it like cash.” In other words, the festival won’t replace your wristband if it gets lost or stolen. Do not cut it or twist your wristband because it can fray, and the festival will not replace it in those cases, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-day reentry is not allowed. But if you \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to leave the festival, festival organizers ask that you speak with a supervising staff member at an exit before leaving to work out the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"accessibilityoutsidelands\">\u003c/a>What to know about accessibility at Outside Lands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/accessibility/\">There is a designated ADA Entrance at 36th Avenue & JFK\u003c/a>. This is where the Access Center is, and you can request a golf cart inside or get a collar for your service animal. Accessible pickup and drop-off is at 36th and Fulton. If you are taking a rideshare, let your driver know to tell the parking staff that you need access to the ADA parking, which is also at the 36th and Fulton entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is limited ADA parking available, and it is first come, first served. You can access this parking by entering 36th Avenue and Fulton and talking to the gate agents. It is worth noting that some of the ADA parking is on roads with uneven terrain, with a walk to the ADA gate. Notify the parking staff so they can request a shuttle for you to the gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a lot of demand for shuttles, so Outside Lands is limiting “capacity to our disabled patrons plus one companion. Because of the ‘limited number’ of shuttles, Outside Lands organizers advise disabled festival goers to “please expect a wait, and plan your requests accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Lands provides elevated platforms at the following stages: Sutro, Twin Peaks and Lands End stages. \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/accessibility/\">There are “banquet style” folding chairs available at all of the platforms.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ADA restrooms are next to all of the accessible viewing platforms. Restrooms at Outside Lands also have accessible options at the ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival organizers recommend that you email \u003ca href=\"mailto:access@sfoutsidelands.com\">access@sfoutsidelands.com\u003c/a> ahead of time with any accessibility questions or requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I need to bring a jacket to Outside Lands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s August. Yes, it’s Golden Gate Park. Yes, you still need to bring a jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can keep an eye on \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.7771&lon=-122.4196\">the National Weather Service’s forecast for San Francisco\u003c/a> as the festival draws closer. Right now, the forecast in the City calls for “mostly sunny” weather this weekend, with highs near 69 on Friday, 70 on Saturday and 68 on Sunday. But Golden Gate Park is near the ocean, and it gets \u003cem>cold\u003c/em> even when other parts of San Francisco are toasty. Forgetting layers for a day in the park is a classic mistake to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, another outfit suggestion from experienced KQED reporters: Comfortable shoes you don’t mind getting dirty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-earplugs-for-concerts/\">buying earplugs that allow for sounds to get through for around $30\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"banneditemsoutsidelands\">\u003c/a>What can I bring to Outside Lands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/news/know-before-you-go/\">Some items you can bring to Outside Lands\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clear backpacks and bags.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Non-clear small bags, fanny packs and purses up to 6” x 8” x 3”.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Empty dedicated hydration packs with a capacity under 2.5L/150 inches and just one pocket (standard-size backpacks with hydration bladders will not be allowed into the festival.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/sustainability/refillable-water-program/\">Ticketholders are encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle\u003c/a> and refill it at one of the water stations around the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://secure.mobilecharginglockers.com/affiliate/website/event/outside-lands-locker-rental-2024\">reserve a locker\u003c/a> on the festival grounds in advance, but be sure to do so as soon as possible, as these reservations can sell out quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957311\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/outside-lands-bag-policy-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration showing the bag policy at Outside Lands \u003ccite>(sfoutsidelands.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some items you \u003cem>can’t\u003c/em> bring to Outside Lands\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Glow-sticks, laser pointers (however glow bracelets and necklaces are allowed).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Weapons, fireworks (including pocket knives).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pets (apart from service dogs).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Glass or cans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video or audio recording equipment (including drones, GoPros and selfie sticks).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Professional still camera equipment with “a detachable lens longer than 2 inches, tripods, big zooms or commercial use rigs.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skateboards, scooters or bikes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Strollers, wagons or carts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hammocks, umbrellas, picnic baskets, coolers, liquids (excluding personal-sized hand sanitizers).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chairs with legs or tents.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">See the full list of items allowed or prohibited at Outside Lands.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"food-outside-lands\">\u003c/a>Can I bring my own food into Outside Lands, and what food is available there?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/info/\">The Outside Lands FAQ and venue information\u003c/a> states that bringing your own alcohol into the festival is prohibited, but does not explicitly ban bringing your own food. Just remember: the \u003ca href=\"#banneditemsoutsidelands\">Outside Lands bag policy prohibits common kinds of non-clear backpacks.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/food-and-drink/taste-of-the-bay-area/\">see the Outside Lands food vendor list ahead of time (DOCX)\u003c/a>, with vegan options marked, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/experiences/\">the drinks list (including alcoholic and non-alcoholic options)(DOCX\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ozi9fn7wdoreb0e74k1dj/OL23-Drink-Release_7-28-Update.docx?rlkey=5hfb8rfe22zxi8mjp1qg8wdvs&dl=0\">)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as KQED Arts reported back in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10139926/how-to-survive-outside-lands-a-veterans-guide\">another option apparently favored by some locals is to “bury bottles of liquor in Golden Gate Park a week before the festival\u003c/a> and dig it up later after you’ve slid past security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Any other useful Outside Lands tips I should know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are looking for shortcuts to other stages (like a tunnel between Polo Field and Sutro Stage) or emergency exits, \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/assets/outsidelands24_patronmap.png\">save the festival’s official map to your Camera Roll (JPG)\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some other insider tips from KQED reporters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you are trying to see someone on the Polo Field, get there early. It gets very crowded quickly.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There have been bleachers and ADA platforms in Hellman Hollow, near the Twin Peaks stage.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sometimes artists hang out at the food trucks, talking to fans (and, if you are lucky, performing a quick song.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13862534/headed-to-outside-lands-heres-everything-you-need-to-know#:~:text=The%20festival%20has%20a%20Sober,sane%20among%20all%20party%20people.\">There is a sober tent available at Outside Lands\u003c/a> for those who feel like they need someone to talk to among the partying. It is near the food trucks.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You can now get \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13956845/legal-weddings-married-outisde-lands-city-hall\">married at Outside Lands.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What should I do in a crowd?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/outside-lands-august-11-13-2023\">SFMTA expects around 75,000 people each day of the festival\u003c/a> — and crowds can be overwhelming for some, especially with predictions of a \u003ca href=\"https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/08/06/chappell-roan-made-lollapalooza-history/\">huge turnout for singer Chappell Roan\u003c/a>. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/11/1054765905/what-went-wrong-at-astroworld-the-deadly-dynamics-of-crowd-surge\">past tragic incidents at other festivals\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-outside-lands-to-have-better-exits-to-prevent-astroworld-festival-like-crowd-crush\">Outside Lands fans even asking for better exits to prevent crowd crushes\u003c/a>, it does not hurt to be cautious and prepared. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053828800/south-korea-seoul-halloween-crowd-safety-tips\">Read NPR’s full guide on what to do if you find yourself caught in a crowd crush\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mehdi Moussaïd, a research scientist in Berlin who studies crowd behavior, rely on your instincts and senses if you feel like the crowd is getting too dense. If you get stuck in a crush, move with the crowd and put your arms out in front of your chest and hold them there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this position, you would have some space, just a little bit, to push for half a centimeter or just 1 centimeter — enough for you to keep breathing,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053828800/south-korea-seoul-halloween-crowd-safety-tips\">Moussaïd told NPR in 2022\u003c/a>. “It’s not going to be comfortable. You’re going to be feeling really bad, but at least you’ll survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I can’t afford tickets — are there other related performances I can enjoy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, \u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/night-shows/night-shows/\">Outside Lands has several after-parties around San Francisco for which you can get tickets\u003c/a> from Thursday through Sunday, including one featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/princess-w-willow-pill-the-official-outside-lands-afterparty-tickets-940612757077\">RuPaul Drag Race winner Willow Pill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Gabe Meline, Nastia Voynovskaya and Carly Severn contributed to this story\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/explainers\">the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the KQED series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fandomvote\">The Fandom Vote\u003c/a>, exploring the election-year concerns and voting preferences of significant pop culture fanbases.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]wo years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998109/olivia-rodrigo-guts-san-francisco-chase-center-bag-policy-pinkpantheress\">pop star Olivia Rodrigo\u003c/a> had a direct message for the five Supreme Court justices that ruled in favor of overturning \u003ci>Roe v. Wade\u003c/i>:\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-madmajyuc\"> “We hate you.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m devastated and terrified that so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-madmajyuc\">Rodrigo said onstage at England’s Glastonbury Festival\u003c/a> before dedicating the Lily Allen song “Fuck You” to the justices, calling each out by name. “[They] have shown us that, at the end of the day, they truly don’t give a shit about freedom,” Rodrigo said to the massive crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999077\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-800x395.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-1020x504.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-1536x758.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-2048x1011.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-1920x948.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella Nuñez wears sunglasses reading ‘Olivia Rodrigo World Tour’ at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 21-year-old singer has been no less vocal on her wildly popular — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962051/review-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-chase-center-guts-tour\">critically acclaimed\u003c/a> — \u003ci>Guts\u003c/i> world tour, which came to San Francisco for two shows in early August. Rodrigo has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eifoundation.org/partners/olivia-rodrigos-fund-4-good/\">partnered\u003c/a> with the National Network of Abortion Funds, an organization dedicated to increasing access to abortion care across the United States, and has donated a portion of ticket sales to local and statewide abortion care groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodrigo’s sharp, bold songs are also steeped in stylistic references to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/9/riot-grrrl-movement-retrospective-thinkpiece-punk-rock/#:~:text=Riot%20Grrrl%20has%20historically%20been,identity%2C%20politics%2C%20and%20abortion.\">riot-grrrl\u003c/a>, the 1990s punk feminist movement that championed reproductive rights and abortion access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13960424']Reproductive rights are a cause that resonates strongly with fans, like 20-year-old Elizabeth Feliciano, who traveled from Reno to the Bay Area to see Rodrigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Christian myself, and I don’t think I’d ever get an abortion. But I think it’s up to everyone to have a choice in their own body,” Feliciano said. “I also think our country’s made on the premises of free religion. So we can’t force religion on anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Feliciano, 20, poses for a photo for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feliciano was one of nearly 20,000 attendees at Chase Center in San Francisco for Rodrigo’s Friday show. Excitement buzzed in the air as fans — clad in Rodrigo’s instantly recognizable black-purple-surly protagonist-of-a-teen-movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/olivia-rodrigo-complete-style-evolution\">Y2K-meets-’90s\u003c/a> aesthetic — took pictures, bought merch and lounged in the sun as they waited for the gates to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998800\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Monsour, with “pink” written on his head for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a pivotal presidential election just months away, many fans also spoke candidly of their anxiety about the future of the country. Along with reproductive rights, fans raised concerns about the cost of living, immigration justice, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997961/an-opportunity-how-do-pro-palestinian-advocates-feel-about-a-kamala-harris-candidacy\">the ongoing siege of Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent change at the top of the Democratic ticket, meanwhile, brought new enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The election] makes me very nervous, but I’m glad that Kamala Harris is running,” said 21-year-old Lauryn Ige of Wailuku, Hawaii. “It’d be really cool to have a woman for president. I like what she stands for. I very much care about the topic of women’s bodies and them choosing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauryn Ige, 21, wears purple flower earrings for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rodrigo has already shown support for Democratic presidential candidate Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/olivia-rodrigo-kamala-harris-19597411\">reposting an Instagram video\u003c/a> of Harris vowing to restore abortion access in the country. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Harris has made abortion a major pillar of her campaign and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996803/where-do-kamala-harris-and-joe-biden-diverge-on-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more vocal about it\u003c/a> than her predecessor, Biden.\u003c/span> Abortion care is also a cause that has greatly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1134834724/michigan-abortion-amendment-midterm-results\">mobilized voters\u003c/a> — especially women — in states where it was at risk of being further restricted or even banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ nomination has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-31/kamala-harris-uses-tiktok-to-pull-in-gen-z-voters-after-biden-s-exit\">energized\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47th-edition-spring-2024\">Gen Z and millennial voting bloc,\u003c/a> many of whom had been open about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960424/megan-thee-stallion-stans-hotties-election-biden-trump-san-francisco\">the despondency they previously felt about Biden as the Democratic candidate\u003c/a>. But much of the ensuing media coverage has now speculated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/363560/gen-z-brat-coconut-kamala-harris-vote-young-voter?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_campaign=vox.social\">whether or not Harris can actually bring more young people to the polls. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1270px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1270\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED.jpg 1270w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-1020x1606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-975x1536.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Angeles, 24, holds up a flag of Olivia Rodrigo at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Strong in what we believe in’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, just 37% of youth voters — ages 18 to 29, as defined by \u003ca href=\"https://circle.tufts.edu/\">Tufts University’s data\u003c/a> — turned out for the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In the 2020 presidential election between Trump and Biden, youth voter turnout rose to 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some at Rodrigo’s San Francisco concert, November’s general election will be their first time voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that all the young voters come out to vote, especially because we’re one of the percentage of people that don’t vote,” said 20-year-old Heather Esguerra from Santa Clara. “So hopefully, because she’s in the running now, we all come out to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998791\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1920x1242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Aarty Sharma, Natally Martin, Heather Esguerra and Khyati Mahajan hang out at the Chase Center before Olivia Rodrigo’s concert in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esguerra was attending the concert with San Jose’s Aarty Sharma, 20, who said she hoped Harris would reinstate abortion rights nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s the woman’s choice. It’s our body,” Sharma said. “I think we should have an opinion about it at the very minimum, and we should be able to make that choice for ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13959370']Sharma gave a nervous laugh as she added: “I’m really, really hoping that it will change for the better. Because right now it’s not looking too good, I’m not gonna lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esguerra said that no matter who was inaugurated in January 2025, she believed in the power of Gen Z to steer the direction of the country in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very strong in what we believe in,” Esguerra said. “Especially us being so young and fighting for what we want. I think it’s very good for us to already start doing that, despite what’s going to happen with our government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Esguerra’s glittery eyeshadow makeup for Olivia Rodrigo’s concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Esguerra talked, another one of their friends — 19-year-old Khyati Mahajan from Santa Clara — brightened up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of [Esguerra’s] answer, I feel hopeful,” Mahajan said. “I felt very sad before because global warming, and everything is really bad right now. People are not taking action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mahajan, Harris is “more of a moderate candidate than I would have liked. I definitely want someone more liberal, who’s going to make more change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998797\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1920x1332.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betsy Romero, 23, wears a purple cowboy hat for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s kind of scary thinking we could lose our rights’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Richmond residents Linda Scruggs, 24, and Betsy Romero, 23, also hope Harris will pull through in November. “I am concerned that we’re going down a really bad path, like going back to the past instead of progressing as a country,” Scruggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think our country’s going really towards a racist, sexist environment,” she added. “So many people have already fought to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Mexican American, Romero said the Republican party’s stance on abortion and immigration particularly worried her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13955679']“It’s kind of scary thinking we could lose our rights as not only women but immigrants,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero said she recognized the importance of influencers and celebrities like Rodrigo in politics. In fact, Romero became more interested in politics by following New York Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/aoc\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitch channel\u003c/a>, where the politician plays games with other popular streamers. Now, she’s planning to help with voter registration on her college campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Celebrities are a great way to get their audiences to contribute [to causes],” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999079\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-800x395.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-1020x504.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-1536x758.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-2048x1011.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-1920x948.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ananya Bahugudumbi, 20, wears a purple butterfly on her hair for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old San Jose resident Ananya Bahugudumbi will also be voting for the first time this November. She feels that stars like Rodrigo have a definite responsibility to their younger fans who look up to them. “Personally, if I had that kind of influence, I would be using it to talk about the things that are important to me and that are important to the world as a whole,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bahugudumbi also wanted elected representatives to keep the average American in mind when making decisions. “There’s a lot of issues in the world going on right now, and I think that a lot of it is influenced by money. People who have power,” Bahugudumbi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected representatives, she said, “should remember that the people who are voting for them are like the people here at this concert.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So we can’t force religion on anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Feliciano, 20, poses for a photo for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feliciano was one of nearly 20,000 attendees at Chase Center in San Francisco for Rodrigo’s Friday show. Excitement buzzed in the air as fans — clad in Rodrigo’s instantly recognizable black-purple-surly protagonist-of-a-teen-movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/olivia-rodrigo-complete-style-evolution\">Y2K-meets-’90s\u003c/a> aesthetic — took pictures, bought merch and lounged in the sun as they waited for the gates to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998800\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Monsour, with “pink” written on his head for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a pivotal presidential election just months away, many fans also spoke candidly of their anxiety about the future of the country. Along with reproductive rights, fans raised concerns about the cost of living, immigration justice, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997961/an-opportunity-how-do-pro-palestinian-advocates-feel-about-a-kamala-harris-candidacy\">the ongoing siege of Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent change at the top of the Democratic ticket, meanwhile, brought new enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The election] makes me very nervous, but I’m glad that Kamala Harris is running,” said 21-year-old Lauryn Ige of Wailuku, Hawaii. “It’d be really cool to have a woman for president. I like what she stands for. I very much care about the topic of women’s bodies and them choosing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauryn Ige, 21, wears purple flower earrings for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rodrigo has already shown support for Democratic presidential candidate Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/olivia-rodrigo-kamala-harris-19597411\">reposting an Instagram video\u003c/a> of Harris vowing to restore abortion access in the country. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Harris has made abortion a major pillar of her campaign and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996803/where-do-kamala-harris-and-joe-biden-diverge-on-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more vocal about it\u003c/a> than her predecessor, Biden.\u003c/span> Abortion care is also a cause that has greatly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1134834724/michigan-abortion-amendment-midterm-results\">mobilized voters\u003c/a> — especially women — in states where it was at risk of being further restricted or even banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ nomination has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-31/kamala-harris-uses-tiktok-to-pull-in-gen-z-voters-after-biden-s-exit\">energized\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47th-edition-spring-2024\">Gen Z and millennial voting bloc,\u003c/a> many of whom had been open about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960424/megan-thee-stallion-stans-hotties-election-biden-trump-san-francisco\">the despondency they previously felt about Biden as the Democratic candidate\u003c/a>. But much of the ensuing media coverage has now speculated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/363560/gen-z-brat-coconut-kamala-harris-vote-young-voter?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_campaign=vox.social\">whether or not Harris can actually bring more young people to the polls. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1270px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1270\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED.jpg 1270w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-1020x1606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-975x1536.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Angeles, 24, holds up a flag of Olivia Rodrigo at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Strong in what we believe in’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, just 37% of youth voters — ages 18 to 29, as defined by \u003ca href=\"https://circle.tufts.edu/\">Tufts University’s data\u003c/a> — turned out for the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In the 2020 presidential election between Trump and Biden, youth voter turnout rose to 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some at Rodrigo’s San Francisco concert, November’s general election will be their first time voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that all the young voters come out to vote, especially because we’re one of the percentage of people that don’t vote,” said 20-year-old Heather Esguerra from Santa Clara. “So hopefully, because she’s in the running now, we all come out to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998791\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1920x1242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Aarty Sharma, Natally Martin, Heather Esguerra and Khyati Mahajan hang out at the Chase Center before Olivia Rodrigo’s concert in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esguerra was attending the concert with San Jose’s Aarty Sharma, 20, who said she hoped Harris would reinstate abortion rights nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s the woman’s choice. It’s our body,” Sharma said. “I think we should have an opinion about it at the very minimum, and we should be able to make that choice for ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sharma gave a nervous laugh as she added: “I’m really, really hoping that it will change for the better. Because right now it’s not looking too good, I’m not gonna lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esguerra said that no matter who was inaugurated in January 2025, she believed in the power of Gen Z to steer the direction of the country in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very strong in what we believe in,” Esguerra said. “Especially us being so young and fighting for what we want. I think it’s very good for us to already start doing that, despite what’s going to happen with our government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Esguerra’s glittery eyeshadow makeup for Olivia Rodrigo’s concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Esguerra talked, another one of their friends — 19-year-old Khyati Mahajan from Santa Clara — brightened up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of [Esguerra’s] answer, I feel hopeful,” Mahajan said. “I felt very sad before because global warming, and everything is really bad right now. People are not taking action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mahajan, Harris is “more of a moderate candidate than I would have liked. I definitely want someone more liberal, who’s going to make more change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998797\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1920x1332.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betsy Romero, 23, wears a purple cowboy hat for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s kind of scary thinking we could lose our rights’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Richmond residents Linda Scruggs, 24, and Betsy Romero, 23, also hope Harris will pull through in November. “I am concerned that we’re going down a really bad path, like going back to the past instead of progressing as a country,” Scruggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think our country’s going really towards a racist, sexist environment,” she added. “So many people have already fought to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Mexican American, Romero said the Republican party’s stance on abortion and immigration particularly worried her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Texting your ex may be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj9qJsJTsjQ&pp=ygUdYmFkIGlkZWEgcmlnaHQgb2xpdmlhIHJvZHJpZ28%3D\">bad idea — \u003cem>right?\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — but seeing Olivia Rodrigo live in San Francisco for her \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/gutsworldtour\">world \u003cem>Guts\u003c/em> tour\u003c/a> will probably be anything but.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unbearably cool singer, who captures the angst and embarrassment of your early 20s like few other artists, will be playing two nights at Chase Center on Friday and Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’ve got tickets for one of Rodrigo’s SF shows on Aug. 2 or 3 and want to quit worrying about logistics, keep reading our guide to everything from Chase Center bag policy, parking, tickets and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And be aware: \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/music/news/pinkpantheress-cancels-all-2024-tour-dates-1236093345/\">Rodrigo no longer has her opening act PinkPantheress for these shows\u003c/a>, which means she’ll be most likely starting her performances earlier. Be sure to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChaseCenter\">follow Chase Center on social media\u003c/a> for any more last-minute updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#chase-center-bag-policy\">What’s the Chase Center bag policy?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#olivia-rodrigo-tickets\">Can I still get Olivia Rodrigo tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#chase-center-parking\">Where is parking for Chase Center?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What time does the show at Chase Center start?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Doors are \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/events/olivia-rodrigo-20240802\">slated to open at 6:45 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big update for those with tickets: On Thursday, Rodrigo’s original opener for the shows, bedroom pop singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftolPu9qp4\">PinkPantheress\u003c/a>, canceled all her tours this year saying she wanted \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/music/news/pinkpantheress-cancels-all-2024-tour-dates-1236093345/\">“to focus on my physical health and overall wellbeing.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that Rodrigo will now be performing in San Francisco earlier — likely around 8 p.m. Previously, she was scheduled to start performing after PinkPantheress between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., so if you were planning on skipping her opener, you may wish to adjust your plans slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many concerts, be prepared for a long night. If you don’t mind spoilers, you can view \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WxbQjSs5xcKRRcgIH5xQW?go=1&sp_cid=5058e06b8fff0221638077912ec7938f&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop\">Rodrigo’s likely setlist for San Francisco on her official Spotify playlist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are an American Express cardholder, you may get to see \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/guts-bus-amex\">the Guts tour bus\u003c/a> outside the venue. When you enter, you can take pictures in a purple-tinged flashback to the ’90s, a bedroom decorated like the surly protagonist of a coming-of-age movie. If you buy some merch, you may get a complimentary gift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bestofoliviarodrigo/video/7345864876662721835\" data-video-id=\"7345864876662721835\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@bestofoliviarodrigo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bestofoliviarodrigo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bestofoliviarodrigo\u003c/a> Olivia’s tour bus 💜 Video: @livies hq ❤️ \u003ca title=\"badfeelingjt\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/badfeelingjt?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#badfeelingjt\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"popstar\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/popstar?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#popstar\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"singer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/singer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#singer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"oliviarodrigo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/oliviarodrigo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#oliviarodrigo\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"concert\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/concert?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#concert\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"trendy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/trendy?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#trendy\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"songwriter\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/songwriter?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#songwriter\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"talent\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/talent?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#talent\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"guts\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/guts?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GUTS\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"fyp\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#fyp\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"music\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/music?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#music\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) - Jagwar Twin\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Bad-Feeling-Oompa-Loompa-7308817011554912257?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) – Jagwar Twin\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus visit is first-come, first-served, and the time it opens has varied from city to city. Familiarize yourself with the other \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/guts-bus-amex\">caveats on Rodrigo’s website around tour bus access\u003c/a>, and consider monitoring fan page \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LiviesHQ\">Livies HQ on social media\u003c/a> to get updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"chase-center-bag-policy\">\u003c/a>What’s the Chase Center bag policy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Backpacks (except for single-compartment drawstring bags) and hard-sided bags of any kind are prohibited from entering Chase Center. Any other bag you bring must be smaller than 14 x 14 x 6 inches in size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bags that do not meet the requirements can be checked at one of two bag check locations for a fee of $10. Bag check is at the corner of 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some more \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">things you cannot bring into the Olivia Rodrigo shows at Chase Center\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bottles and cans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refillable water bottles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Signs over 11 x 17 inches or attached to any pole or stick.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Masks that cover the whole face. (Face coverings to lower your risks of catching — or spreading — COVID-19, like N95 masks, are allowed, which is just as well given \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">the current COVID-19 surge in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lights, tripods and professional recording equipment. Flash photography is not allowed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Noise-making devices, such as air horns, whistles or cow bells.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Weapons and self-defense items of any kind, including mace, knives and tasers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Selfie sticks.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>What else can you bring to Chase Center? These items include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Baby bags, plastic bottles and formula.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diaper bags (with a child).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bags accepted as medical bags.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Umbrellas.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Binoculars.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While portable phone chargers are not prohibited, Chase Center also offers charging stations compatible with most cellphone devices. Guests may rent a portable charger to take back to their seats for $2 per 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do I know if I’ve got a good seat at the Olivia Rodrigo Chase Center show?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are anxious about anything obscuring your sight of the stage or how you want to get to your seat fast, you can check out the view from your seat using \u003ca href=\"https://warriors.io-media.com/web/index.html\">Chase Center’s Virtual Venue map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I know about accessibility at Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chase Center addresses questions about accessibility in its online \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">A to Z Guide\u003c/a>, which includes information about accessible parking, hearing assistance, ADA-compliant restrooms and service animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue says guests can request complimentary wheelchair escorts by visiting the kiosks located at \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.nba.com/teams/uploads/sites/1610612744/2024/02/CC_Portals_Map_Update_3202x2550_2024-.jpg\">Portal 13 and Portal 52\u003c/a> or texting 833-CC4-FANS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To schedule an American Sign Language interpreter, guests should contact guestexperiences@warriors.com ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Rodrigo performs at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., as part of her GUTS world tour. \u003ccite>(Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"chase-center-parking\">\u003c/a>What should I know about parking at and near Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/chase-center-parking-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-california-08-02-2024/event/1C005F2D8AAF19AE\">some tickets left\u003c/a> for official parking at Chase Center, at around $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue’s website also refers fans to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parkwhiz.com/chase-center-parking/\">third-party parking website ParkWhiz\u003c/a> for other non-Chase Center parking options nearby. It costs $56 to reserve a spot at the nearest garage, which is about a 10-minute walk from the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheaper options starting at $12 are available for those willing and able to trek over a mile on foot — or take public transit for the last mile or two. So, if you’re driving to the show but haven’t secured your parking yet, consider wearing comfier shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about using rideshare services like Lyft and Uber at Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While getting to the venue using a rideshare service might be fairly smooth, trying to find a car after the show is almost certainly going to be a challenge — speaking from personal experience. Due to surge pricing, it will also be far more expensive to get an Uber or Lyft as you exit the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are\u003ca href=\"https://images.ctfassets.net/0lzgl3qjkmm1/6k8OJ6yu4tTfjV4wHsmKTG/0b4cc696d2b3f2360ad34bbc16ffbffd/uber-map.png\"> multiple designated pickup and drop-off zones\u003c/a> located within one block of Chase Center. Upon arrival, use one of the designated passenger loading zones (white curbs) along Terry A Francois Boulevard for a safe curbside drop-off. The website also notes, under “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">Drop-off Locations,\u003c/a>” that “if you prefer to walk/take the train to a location where it’s easier to ride-hail, we encourage taking the train/walking along Forth Street towards the Forth and King Caltrain Station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you leave the show, the rideshare apps will automatically show you the best places to get picked up within a five-minute walk radius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessible drop-offs and pickups are along the curb of 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard, with accessible entry and exit from the East Entrance. For folks with mobility considerations, the venue can provide a wheelchair to transport guests from Thrive City Plaza or the main lobby to their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s the best way to take public transit to the Olivia Rodrigo concert?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Public transit schedules can always be subject to change. Check the timings for your route on the day of the show itself, and be sure of your very last service home. Chase Center has a \u003ca href=\"https://chasecenter.com/transportation-guide\">comprehensive guide to public transportation\u003c/a> on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/CC_BM_20231005_CC_Transportation_MapCC_BM_20231005_CC_Transportation_Map_1080x1080.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any Chase Center patron who shows their event ticket at Muni turnstiles and boarding platforms can \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/transportation-guide\">ride Muni \u003cem>without \u003c/em>charge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a Muni Metro rail stop serving the venue on the T Third Street line, which connects Chinatown and Sunnydale. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/t-third-street\">the Muni Metro schedule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several BART stations have convenient connections to get to the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni Route 22 connects to the 16th Street and Mission BART station. This stop is located on Third Street and Gene Friend Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni Route 15 serves as a connection to Montgomery Street BART station. This stop is located on Third Street and Warriors Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can transfer to the new Union Square Muni Metro rail station from Powell BART station via the underground corridor to take the T Third Street line or S Shuttle Mission Bay line to the UCSF/Chase Center stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find more information and schedules \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/\">on the BART website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you take Caltrain to San Francisco, you can walk 15–20 minutes along Fourth Street and turn left on Gene Friend Way to Chase Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also transfer from the Caltrain station to the Muni Metro T Third Street platform, which is located across the street, and take Muni to the UCSF/Chase Center stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On weekdays, the last Caltrain from San Francisco departs at 12:03 a.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/\">See the Caltrain schedule here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Biking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chase Center offers guests free bike valet for the first 300 bikes an hour before start time. The valet is available along 16th Street. Public bike parking is available along 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/bikes/bay-wheels\">Lyft/Bay Wheels bike share station\u003c/a> at the intersection of Warriors Way and Terry Francois Boulevard. While they’re convenient and easy to use, the limited availability of these bikes means you should have a backup plan — or you might get stranded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"olivia-rodrigo-tickets\">\u003c/a>Can I still get a ticket for the Olivia Rodrigo shows?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to Ticketmaster, tickets to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/olivia-rodrigo-tickets/artist/2836194\">both shows are sold out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find resale tickets on sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.stubhub.com/olivia-rodrigo-tickets/performer/101864867\">StubHub\u003c/a> — with some ranging around $350 — but make sure you’re not purchasing fake tickets. Read more tips about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956083/taylor-swift-levis-stadium-eras-santa-clara-tickets#taylorswifttickets\">avoiding ticket resale scams\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What time does the show at Chase Center start?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Doors are \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/events/olivia-rodrigo-20240802\">slated to open at 6:45 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big update for those with tickets: On Thursday, Rodrigo’s original opener for the shows, bedroom pop singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftolPu9qp4\">PinkPantheress\u003c/a>, canceled all her tours this year saying she wanted \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/music/news/pinkpantheress-cancels-all-2024-tour-dates-1236093345/\">“to focus on my physical health and overall wellbeing.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that Rodrigo will now be performing in San Francisco earlier — likely around 8 p.m. Previously, she was scheduled to start performing after PinkPantheress between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., so if you were planning on skipping her opener, you may wish to adjust your plans slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many concerts, be prepared for a long night. If you don’t mind spoilers, you can view \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WxbQjSs5xcKRRcgIH5xQW?go=1&sp_cid=5058e06b8fff0221638077912ec7938f&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop\">Rodrigo’s likely setlist for San Francisco on her official Spotify playlist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are an American Express cardholder, you may get to see \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/guts-bus-amex\">the Guts tour bus\u003c/a> outside the venue. When you enter, you can take pictures in a purple-tinged flashback to the ’90s, a bedroom decorated like the surly protagonist of a coming-of-age movie. If you buy some merch, you may get a complimentary gift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bestofoliviarodrigo/video/7345864876662721835\" data-video-id=\"7345864876662721835\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@bestofoliviarodrigo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bestofoliviarodrigo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bestofoliviarodrigo\u003c/a> Olivia’s tour bus 💜 Video: @livies hq ❤️ \u003ca title=\"badfeelingjt\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/badfeelingjt?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#badfeelingjt\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"popstar\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/popstar?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#popstar\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"singer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/singer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#singer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"oliviarodrigo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/oliviarodrigo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#oliviarodrigo\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"concert\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/concert?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#concert\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"trendy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/trendy?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#trendy\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"songwriter\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/songwriter?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#songwriter\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"talent\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/talent?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#talent\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"guts\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/guts?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GUTS\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"fyp\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#fyp\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"music\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/music?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#music\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) - Jagwar Twin\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Bad-Feeling-Oompa-Loompa-7308817011554912257?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) – Jagwar Twin\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus visit is first-come, first-served, and the time it opens has varied from city to city. Familiarize yourself with the other \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/guts-bus-amex\">caveats on Rodrigo’s website around tour bus access\u003c/a>, and consider monitoring fan page \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LiviesHQ\">Livies HQ on social media\u003c/a> to get updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"chase-center-bag-policy\">\u003c/a>What’s the Chase Center bag policy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Backpacks (except for single-compartment drawstring bags) and hard-sided bags of any kind are prohibited from entering Chase Center. Any other bag you bring must be smaller than 14 x 14 x 6 inches in size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bags that do not meet the requirements can be checked at one of two bag check locations for a fee of $10. Bag check is at the corner of 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some more \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">things you cannot bring into the Olivia Rodrigo shows at Chase Center\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bottles and cans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refillable water bottles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Signs over 11 x 17 inches or attached to any pole or stick.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Masks that cover the whole face. (Face coverings to lower your risks of catching — or spreading — COVID-19, like N95 masks, are allowed, which is just as well given \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">the current COVID-19 surge in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lights, tripods and professional recording equipment. Flash photography is not allowed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Noise-making devices, such as air horns, whistles or cow bells.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Weapons and self-defense items of any kind, including mace, knives and tasers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Selfie sticks.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>What else can you bring to Chase Center? These items include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Baby bags, plastic bottles and formula.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diaper bags (with a child).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bags accepted as medical bags.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Umbrellas.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Binoculars.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While portable phone chargers are not prohibited, Chase Center also offers charging stations compatible with most cellphone devices. Guests may rent a portable charger to take back to their seats for $2 per 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do I know if I’ve got a good seat at the Olivia Rodrigo Chase Center show?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are anxious about anything obscuring your sight of the stage or how you want to get to your seat fast, you can check out the view from your seat using \u003ca href=\"https://warriors.io-media.com/web/index.html\">Chase Center’s Virtual Venue map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I know about accessibility at Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chase Center addresses questions about accessibility in its online \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">A to Z Guide\u003c/a>, which includes information about accessible parking, hearing assistance, ADA-compliant restrooms and service animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue says guests can request complimentary wheelchair escorts by visiting the kiosks located at \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.nba.com/teams/uploads/sites/1610612744/2024/02/CC_Portals_Map_Update_3202x2550_2024-.jpg\">Portal 13 and Portal 52\u003c/a> or texting 833-CC4-FANS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To schedule an American Sign Language interpreter, guests should contact guestexperiences@warriors.com ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Rodrigo performs at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., as part of her GUTS world tour. \u003ccite>(Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"chase-center-parking\">\u003c/a>What should I know about parking at and near Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/chase-center-parking-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-california-08-02-2024/event/1C005F2D8AAF19AE\">some tickets left\u003c/a> for official parking at Chase Center, at around $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue’s website also refers fans to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parkwhiz.com/chase-center-parking/\">third-party parking website ParkWhiz\u003c/a> for other non-Chase Center parking options nearby. It costs $56 to reserve a spot at the nearest garage, which is about a 10-minute walk from the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheaper options starting at $12 are available for those willing and able to trek over a mile on foot — or take public transit for the last mile or two. So, if you’re driving to the show but haven’t secured your parking yet, consider wearing comfier shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about using rideshare services like Lyft and Uber at Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While getting to the venue using a rideshare service might be fairly smooth, trying to find a car after the show is almost certainly going to be a challenge — speaking from personal experience. Due to surge pricing, it will also be far more expensive to get an Uber or Lyft as you exit the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are\u003ca href=\"https://images.ctfassets.net/0lzgl3qjkmm1/6k8OJ6yu4tTfjV4wHsmKTG/0b4cc696d2b3f2360ad34bbc16ffbffd/uber-map.png\"> multiple designated pickup and drop-off zones\u003c/a> located within one block of Chase Center. Upon arrival, use one of the designated passenger loading zones (white curbs) along Terry A Francois Boulevard for a safe curbside drop-off. The website also notes, under “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">Drop-off Locations,\u003c/a>” that “if you prefer to walk/take the train to a location where it’s easier to ride-hail, we encourage taking the train/walking along Forth Street towards the Forth and King Caltrain Station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you leave the show, the rideshare apps will automatically show you the best places to get picked up within a five-minute walk radius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessible drop-offs and pickups are along the curb of 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard, with accessible entry and exit from the East Entrance. For folks with mobility considerations, the venue can provide a wheelchair to transport guests from Thrive City Plaza or the main lobby to their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s the best way to take public transit to the Olivia Rodrigo concert?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Public transit schedules can always be subject to change. Check the timings for your route on the day of the show itself, and be sure of your very last service home. Chase Center has a \u003ca href=\"https://chasecenter.com/transportation-guide\">comprehensive guide to public transportation\u003c/a> on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/CC_BM_20231005_CC_Transportation_MapCC_BM_20231005_CC_Transportation_Map_1080x1080.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any Chase Center patron who shows their event ticket at Muni turnstiles and boarding platforms can \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/transportation-guide\">ride Muni \u003cem>without \u003c/em>charge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a Muni Metro rail stop serving the venue on the T Third Street line, which connects Chinatown and Sunnydale. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/t-third-street\">the Muni Metro schedule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several BART stations have convenient connections to get to the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni Route 22 connects to the 16th Street and Mission BART station. This stop is located on Third Street and Gene Friend Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni Route 15 serves as a connection to Montgomery Street BART station. This stop is located on Third Street and Warriors Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can transfer to the new Union Square Muni Metro rail station from Powell BART station via the underground corridor to take the T Third Street line or S Shuttle Mission Bay line to the UCSF/Chase Center stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find more information and schedules \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/\">on the BART website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you take Caltrain to San Francisco, you can walk 15–20 minutes along Fourth Street and turn left on Gene Friend Way to Chase Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also transfer from the Caltrain station to the Muni Metro T Third Street platform, which is located across the street, and take Muni to the UCSF/Chase Center stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On weekdays, the last Caltrain from San Francisco departs at 12:03 a.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/\">See the Caltrain schedule here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Biking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chase Center offers guests free bike valet for the first 300 bikes an hour before start time. The valet is available along 16th Street. Public bike parking is available along 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/bikes/bay-wheels\">Lyft/Bay Wheels bike share station\u003c/a> at the intersection of Warriors Way and Terry Francois Boulevard. While they’re convenient and easy to use, the limited availability of these bikes means you should have a backup plan — or you might get stranded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"olivia-rodrigo-tickets\">\u003c/a>Can I still get a ticket for the Olivia Rodrigo shows?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to Ticketmaster, tickets to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/olivia-rodrigo-tickets/artist/2836194\">both shows are sold out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find resale tickets on sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.stubhub.com/olivia-rodrigo-tickets/performer/101864867\">StubHub\u003c/a> — with some ranging around $350 — but make sure you’re not purchasing fake tickets. 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"content": "\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906159/whats-inside-project-2025\">Project 2025,” the 900-page right-wing\u003c/a> policy agenda by allies of former President Donald Trump, has \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=US&q=Project%202025&hl=en\">entered the mainstream in the last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Trump’s claims that he has nothing to do with the extensive document — authored by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank — many of its authors and supporters are Trump allies, former and current Trump staffers and \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/184393/jd-vance-violent-foreword-kevin-roberts-project-2025-leader-book\">even his vice presidential pick\u003c/a>. The lengthy treatise puts forth concrete plans for the next Republican administration to consolidate presidential power, sideline critics and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/politics/360318/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce\">implement an extreme religious-right social agenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993255/if-trump-wins-project-2025\">It’s not just a policy agenda, though\u003c/a>: The Heritage Foundation has also created a personnel database of pre-vetted conservatives who could serve in the next GOP administration; a training program to get potential personnel up to speed; and a secret plan for the first 180 days of a new Republican administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Heritage announced that its director, Paul Gans, was stepping down but that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/g-s1-14455/project-2025-trump-heritage\">Project 2025’s work would now instead be led by its president, Kevin Roberts.\u003c/a> But what is in Project 2025, and how achievable are its aims?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Political Breakdown podcast spoke to Philip Bump, national columnist for \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, to dig into Project 2025 as a right-wing “wish list,” why Trump keeps attempting to publicly disavow it, and how fast a second Trump administration could be able to enact such plans starting January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for the takeaways from their conversation with Bump about Project 2025, or listen to the audio below (the Project 2025 conversation begins at 10:53.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7758550327\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>There’s a reason Trump hasn’t provided many concrete presidential policy plans himself\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phillip Bump: \u003c/strong>Over the course of the Republican primary, especially before he really started to gain ground against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump started to do these little videos articulating what they called Agenda 47: What he would do when he came back in office. And most of them were very responsive to whatever the hot issue on Fox News, and in the right, happened to be at the moment … all these really random things.\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/18/trump-has-unveiled-an-agenda-his-own-he-just-doesnt-mention-it-much/\"> [See Bump’s searchable tool for Agenda 47 for \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>.] \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fundamentally … he doesn’t want to offer a lot of specifics. This is a guy whose career prior to becoming a politician was a salesman — and not only was he a salesman, he was a guy selling real estate in New York. Which is, you know, like selling used cars in Topeka. This is not someone whose track record of salesmanship is rooted in the most robust ethics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so he doesn’t \u003cem>want \u003c/em>to commit. He wants to tell people what he wants to tell them in order to make the sale, and so that means being very vague. He frames this as being part of his art in negotiation. … But it’s really fundamentally about telling as few people as possible something they don’t want to hear so that he can maximize the number of people who might be receptive to his candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>It benefits Trump to deny any association with Project 2025\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First of all, I think it’s fundamentally dishonest. You can’t both say, “I know nothing about Project 2025” and “I disagree with some of its elements.” Like that doesn’t make sense, right? But it is about recognizing that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/11/nx-s1-5035272/project-2025-trump-biden-heritage-foundation-conservative\">Project 2025 establishes something for Democrats to point at\u003c/a> — it says, “Here are the things that Donald Trump would do.” And it does so very credibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Heritage Foundation, which put together Project 2025, did tap a lot of people from Trump World, in part because that’s the locus of power within the political right at this point in time. It has people like John McEntee, who was basically in charge of staffing at the tail end of the Trump administration. It has Russ Vought, who used to run [the U.S. Office of Management and Budget] and has been talked about as being potentially Trump’s chief of staff. And a number of other individuals who participated in Donald Trump’s administration and who are now saying, “Here’s what we think the government should do, should a conservative return to power in the White House” — which, of course, means should Donald Trump be elected in 2024 and take office in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for the Trump campaign, it is crucially urgent … to get people to think that Project 2025 is something else that isn’t theirs, isn’t what they want to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Trump’s campaign was not prepared for their 2016 win — but Project 2025 shows how they’d hit the ground running this time\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think that part of it is a response to the way in which Trump took power in 2017. It’s important to remember, of course, that no one expected Donald Trump to be taking the presidency. The polling up until the very end showed that he was likely to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, he took power, and he came into the White House with this amalgamation of both the establishment side of the GOP — Reince Priebus, who used to run the actual RNC, and then he had Steve Bannon, representing the fringe right on the other side. And he tried to mesh those things together, and he didn’t know what the balance of his power was, and he was concerned about reelection and all these aspects that were in place in 2017 that won’t be in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We take a lot of exception with Joe Biden. But the one thing I do credit his team with was being prepared. So they were signing things all week long the first week, and we are going to be doing the same. We are now in the course of drafting these executive orders, and rethinking and identifying the stuff that needs to come down. We’re not going to wait and do this in the 90 days between the election. We’re going to be doing this as a team, as an entire movement years ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– Paul Gans, the now-departed director of the Heritage Foundation\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So [Trump]’s returning to the White House, should he win the election this year, with a clearer sense of purpose — with a better understanding of where the boundaries are, with no concern about being reelected down the road. And with an entire movement already lined up behind him to affect the things that he wants to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which, of course, are really the things that \u003cem>they \u003c/em>want.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A major focus of Project 2025 is reshaping the federal government — quickly\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Among [the 2025 plans] is this plan to very dramatically overhaul the federal government, to get rid of as many federal governments [sic] as they possibly can so that they can be replaced with Trump sympathizers. And to do so in the context of having already tested the limits and seeing where the limits don’t really exist, and seeing limits removed by the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, the core focus of the political right was to unwind the power of government. And that has been reshaped in the Trump era to imbue a lot more power in the presidency for presidents who don’t carry a “D” on their ballot assignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone, I think, recognizes that Donald Trump himself doesn’t care a whole lot about what policies are implemented. And so what they’re trying to do is get a big cadre of people together who \u003cem>do \u003c/em>care about it, to give Donald Trump the mechanism to actually overhaul as much of the government as possible and then put these people in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 is about things like identifying who can move into these positions, who should be hired, who can serve in cabinet positions, but who can also serve in government agencies. And there is a training program that is for people who are interested in coming and learning about the ideals that the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 are trying to have government employees arrive in D.C. with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is this broad effort to overhaul the government — in a way that it is responsive to the will of the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of The Heritage Foundation building on July 30, 2024, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When it comes to removing government workers in 2025, there aren’t as many guardrails as you’d think\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump tried to do this at the tail end of his presidency and introduce a new category for federal officials called Schedule F, which would make it easier to fire a number of people. He tried to implement that. It didn’t take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden reversed the decision, came into office, and then tried to put in some roadblocks to keep doing that. But there really is broad power that [Trump]’s got to effect the changes, the bureaucracies he wants to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also, of course, empowered by a Supreme Court that has shown a lot of deference to the worldview that Donald Trump represents. I mean, if this comes down to a fight at the Supreme Court between federal employees and Donald Trump in terms of where power should lie, it’s pretty obvious where the Supreme Court’s going to land.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Project 2025 is a wishlist that goes beyond reshaping government\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think it’s important to recognize, too, that when we talk about this, it’s sort of a wish list that the people who, for a long time, have been frustrated with particular aspects of the federal government are happy to put down on paper. “Oh, well, we should get rid of this agency or that agency,” and so on and so forth. There’s a lot of that sort of thing that exists in Project 2025, or at least in this 900-page document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/politics/360318/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce\">There’s also a lot of social issues\u003c/a>: things like overhauling the ways in which people can be charged with crimes for alleged voter fraud; things that are responsive to Donald Trump’s efforts to try and claim that the 2020 election was stolen. There are changes, potentially, in the ways in which divorce is handled in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is really a wish list of: if you have heard a conservative or a Republican say, “Hey, wouldn’t it be great if?” over the course of the past 20 years, the odds are good that they got someone to write up 300 words and put it in this document explaining why this should be part of the next administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/politics/360318/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce\">[See Vox’s roundup of what is — and isn’t — in Project 2025, including plans to restrict abortion and contraceptives.]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>It won’t necessarily matter if Project 2025 isn’t ‘popular’ with most Americans\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason the Trump campaign is freaked out [about being associated with Project 2025] is because they don’t want to be tied to this thing, because they \u003cem>know \u003c/em>there are aspects of it that can be picked out and pointed to that are not popular. Even his vague statement about how he disagrees with some of what’s in there, they can apply that to whatever they want to apply to, to say that he disagrees with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to recognize, too, that all of this is predicated on, to some extent, the minority position having more power. The minority position in 2016 was that Donald Trump should not be president. And then he won because of the Electoral College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court that scaled back \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-happens-if-supreme-court-ends-chevron-deference\">Chevron deference\u003c/a> and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/\">gave Trump — or presidents — immunity\u003c/a> was one that was appointed. Three of the justices were appointed by Trump after he won only because he liked the Electoral College. Four of the six Republican-nominated justices got votes from senators who represent less than half of the country right there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless he wins the popular vote in November, which is possible … the ways in which he wields power, or plans to wield power, are based on a minority of Americans getting their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The Heritage Foundation behind Project 2025 has openly spoken of ‘revolution’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Heritage Foundation was, for a long time, one of the key think tanks on the right in Washington, D.C. And it did the work that right-wing think tanks usually do, which is put together policy proposals and advocate for a reduction in the size of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike some other think tanks, it really leaned into the power shift that accompanied Donald Trump. And part of it, I think, is the advent of Roberts, who has only been there for a couple of years — and the Heritage Foundation has really perceptively shifted in tone since Roberts has been in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think his “revolution” comments were obviously alarming and, frankly, from the context of the head of the Heritage Foundation, unprecedented. And it was striking to me because he was basically saying that we’re in the process of a second American Revolution, but what he and Project 2025 are advocating for — if we extend that analogy — is not an increase in freedom and independence as the first revolution was fought, but a return to the monarchy and establishing a very powerful, unchecked political figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s sort of another revolution — in reverse. And I think we’re all praying that it remains “bloodless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906159/whats-inside-project-2025\">Project 2025,” the 900-page right-wing\u003c/a> policy agenda by allies of former President Donald Trump, has \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=US&q=Project%202025&hl=en\">entered the mainstream in the last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Trump’s claims that he has nothing to do with the extensive document — authored by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank — many of its authors and supporters are Trump allies, former and current Trump staffers and \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/184393/jd-vance-violent-foreword-kevin-roberts-project-2025-leader-book\">even his vice presidential pick\u003c/a>. The lengthy treatise puts forth concrete plans for the next Republican administration to consolidate presidential power, sideline critics and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/politics/360318/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce\">implement an extreme religious-right social agenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993255/if-trump-wins-project-2025\">It’s not just a policy agenda, though\u003c/a>: The Heritage Foundation has also created a personnel database of pre-vetted conservatives who could serve in the next GOP administration; a training program to get potential personnel up to speed; and a secret plan for the first 180 days of a new Republican administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Heritage announced that its director, Paul Gans, was stepping down but that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/g-s1-14455/project-2025-trump-heritage\">Project 2025’s work would now instead be led by its president, Kevin Roberts.\u003c/a> But what is in Project 2025, and how achievable are its aims?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Political Breakdown podcast spoke to Philip Bump, national columnist for \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, to dig into Project 2025 as a right-wing “wish list,” why Trump keeps attempting to publicly disavow it, and how fast a second Trump administration could be able to enact such plans starting January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for the takeaways from their conversation with Bump about Project 2025, or listen to the audio below (the Project 2025 conversation begins at 10:53.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7758550327\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>There’s a reason Trump hasn’t provided many concrete presidential policy plans himself\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phillip Bump: \u003c/strong>Over the course of the Republican primary, especially before he really started to gain ground against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump started to do these little videos articulating what they called Agenda 47: What he would do when he came back in office. And most of them were very responsive to whatever the hot issue on Fox News, and in the right, happened to be at the moment … all these really random things.\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/18/trump-has-unveiled-an-agenda-his-own-he-just-doesnt-mention-it-much/\"> [See Bump’s searchable tool for Agenda 47 for \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>.] \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fundamentally … he doesn’t want to offer a lot of specifics. This is a guy whose career prior to becoming a politician was a salesman — and not only was he a salesman, he was a guy selling real estate in New York. Which is, you know, like selling used cars in Topeka. This is not someone whose track record of salesmanship is rooted in the most robust ethics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so he doesn’t \u003cem>want \u003c/em>to commit. He wants to tell people what he wants to tell them in order to make the sale, and so that means being very vague. He frames this as being part of his art in negotiation. … But it’s really fundamentally about telling as few people as possible something they don’t want to hear so that he can maximize the number of people who might be receptive to his candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>It benefits Trump to deny any association with Project 2025\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First of all, I think it’s fundamentally dishonest. You can’t both say, “I know nothing about Project 2025” and “I disagree with some of its elements.” Like that doesn’t make sense, right? But it is about recognizing that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/11/nx-s1-5035272/project-2025-trump-biden-heritage-foundation-conservative\">Project 2025 establishes something for Democrats to point at\u003c/a> — it says, “Here are the things that Donald Trump would do.” And it does so very credibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Heritage Foundation, which put together Project 2025, did tap a lot of people from Trump World, in part because that’s the locus of power within the political right at this point in time. It has people like John McEntee, who was basically in charge of staffing at the tail end of the Trump administration. It has Russ Vought, who used to run [the U.S. Office of Management and Budget] and has been talked about as being potentially Trump’s chief of staff. And a number of other individuals who participated in Donald Trump’s administration and who are now saying, “Here’s what we think the government should do, should a conservative return to power in the White House” — which, of course, means should Donald Trump be elected in 2024 and take office in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for the Trump campaign, it is crucially urgent … to get people to think that Project 2025 is something else that isn’t theirs, isn’t what they want to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Trump’s campaign was not prepared for their 2016 win — but Project 2025 shows how they’d hit the ground running this time\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think that part of it is a response to the way in which Trump took power in 2017. It’s important to remember, of course, that no one expected Donald Trump to be taking the presidency. The polling up until the very end showed that he was likely to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, he took power, and he came into the White House with this amalgamation of both the establishment side of the GOP — Reince Priebus, who used to run the actual RNC, and then he had Steve Bannon, representing the fringe right on the other side. And he tried to mesh those things together, and he didn’t know what the balance of his power was, and he was concerned about reelection and all these aspects that were in place in 2017 that won’t be in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We take a lot of exception with Joe Biden. But the one thing I do credit his team with was being prepared. So they were signing things all week long the first week, and we are going to be doing the same. We are now in the course of drafting these executive orders, and rethinking and identifying the stuff that needs to come down. We’re not going to wait and do this in the 90 days between the election. We’re going to be doing this as a team, as an entire movement years ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– Paul Gans, the now-departed director of the Heritage Foundation\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So [Trump]’s returning to the White House, should he win the election this year, with a clearer sense of purpose — with a better understanding of where the boundaries are, with no concern about being reelected down the road. And with an entire movement already lined up behind him to affect the things that he wants to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which, of course, are really the things that \u003cem>they \u003c/em>want.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A major focus of Project 2025 is reshaping the federal government — quickly\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Among [the 2025 plans] is this plan to very dramatically overhaul the federal government, to get rid of as many federal governments [sic] as they possibly can so that they can be replaced with Trump sympathizers. And to do so in the context of having already tested the limits and seeing where the limits don’t really exist, and seeing limits removed by the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, the core focus of the political right was to unwind the power of government. And that has been reshaped in the Trump era to imbue a lot more power in the presidency for presidents who don’t carry a “D” on their ballot assignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone, I think, recognizes that Donald Trump himself doesn’t care a whole lot about what policies are implemented. And so what they’re trying to do is get a big cadre of people together who \u003cem>do \u003c/em>care about it, to give Donald Trump the mechanism to actually overhaul as much of the government as possible and then put these people in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 is about things like identifying who can move into these positions, who should be hired, who can serve in cabinet positions, but who can also serve in government agencies. And there is a training program that is for people who are interested in coming and learning about the ideals that the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 are trying to have government employees arrive in D.C. with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is this broad effort to overhaul the government — in a way that it is responsive to the will of the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2163946228-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of The Heritage Foundation building on July 30, 2024, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When it comes to removing government workers in 2025, there aren’t as many guardrails as you’d think\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump tried to do this at the tail end of his presidency and introduce a new category for federal officials called Schedule F, which would make it easier to fire a number of people. He tried to implement that. It didn’t take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden reversed the decision, came into office, and then tried to put in some roadblocks to keep doing that. But there really is broad power that [Trump]’s got to effect the changes, the bureaucracies he wants to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also, of course, empowered by a Supreme Court that has shown a lot of deference to the worldview that Donald Trump represents. I mean, if this comes down to a fight at the Supreme Court between federal employees and Donald Trump in terms of where power should lie, it’s pretty obvious where the Supreme Court’s going to land.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Project 2025 is a wishlist that goes beyond reshaping government\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think it’s important to recognize, too, that when we talk about this, it’s sort of a wish list that the people who, for a long time, have been frustrated with particular aspects of the federal government are happy to put down on paper. “Oh, well, we should get rid of this agency or that agency,” and so on and so forth. There’s a lot of that sort of thing that exists in Project 2025, or at least in this 900-page document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/politics/360318/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce\">There’s also a lot of social issues\u003c/a>: things like overhauling the ways in which people can be charged with crimes for alleged voter fraud; things that are responsive to Donald Trump’s efforts to try and claim that the 2020 election was stolen. There are changes, potentially, in the ways in which divorce is handled in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is really a wish list of: if you have heard a conservative or a Republican say, “Hey, wouldn’t it be great if?” over the course of the past 20 years, the odds are good that they got someone to write up 300 words and put it in this document explaining why this should be part of the next administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/politics/360318/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce\">[See Vox’s roundup of what is — and isn’t — in Project 2025, including plans to restrict abortion and contraceptives.]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:50 a.m. Tuesday: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1820828396298879294\">Vice President Kamala Harris announced Tuesday morning\u003c/a> that she has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998972/harris-vp-pick-of-tim-walz-is-a-heartland-of-america-democrat-pelosi-says\">Read more about Harris’ VP pick \u003c/a>or jump to\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp\"> our analysis of Walz as a running mate candidate below.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1820828396298879294\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris says she will choose a running mate by next Wednesday — a little over two weeks from the day \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996616/biden-ends-reelection-campaign-leaving-democrats-next-steps-unclear\">she announced a run for president.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, picking and vetting a vice presidential candidate takes months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Harris — who entered the race on July 21 hours after President Joe Biden dropped out and became \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/02/harris-becomes-democratic-nominee/\">the official Democratic presidential nominee Friday\u003c/a> — doesn’t have that kind of time, as the election is just 94 days away.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will Kamala Harris announce her VP choice?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris was given an Aug. 7 deadline to pick a vice presidential candidate by the Democratic National Party, which wants to lock up the entire ticket ahead of its convention later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Harris doesn’t \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to take all that time and could name her vice president at any point in the next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means an incredibly truncated timeline for vetting the potential vice presidential candidates — even as Harris hit the campaign trail and worked to stand up television ads and other campaign infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who could Kamala Harris choose for her VP?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ reported shortlist of candidates comes from all over the country and has a wide range of life experiences and backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, all have a few things in common: They’re all white men. And they are all from either purple swing states (also known as battleground states) that Democrats need to win in order to keep the White House — or they’ve been elected in red states that are tough for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">like Harris, are former state attorneys general.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person not on the shortlist: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">California Governor Gavin Newsom.\u003c/a> While he’s spent the last few years burnishing his national profile and been a top surrogate for Biden — and longtime political ally of Harris — there are a couple reasons he’s not being considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One, the constitution prohibits a president and vice president from being from the same state. And two, there would be no political upside — and potentially some political damage — to choosing someone from liberal California. Vice presidential picks are largely about balancing a ticket and maybe even picking up some new voters, so someone from a battleground state is a safer pick when it comes to convincing swing voters to back the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s who the likely Democratic nominee is considering as her running mate. (One note: two top contenders, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and North Carolina Gov. 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He also made national headlines for his “bombshell” investigation into Catholic clergy sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro, who is Jewish, is an outspoken supporter of Israel — and to many on the left, a foe of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997961/an-opportunity-how-do-pro-palestinian-advocates-feel-about-a-kamala-harris-candidacy\">pro-Palestinian protesters and the Palestinian cause more generally\u003c/a>. Before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">the war on Gaza\u003c/a>, Shapiro supported Pennsylvania’s anti-divestment, boycott and sanctions law. He has also been vocally critical of pro-Palestinian college protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mark-kelly-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The son of two New Jersey police officers, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, 60, is a former U.S. Navy pilot who flew 39 combat missions during the Gulf War. He went on to become a NASA astronaut, taking four trips into space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, his wife, then-Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was targeted by a gunman as she held a constituent event outside a supermarket in Tucson. Giffords was shot in the head; six people were killed and 12 others injured. Two years later, after the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, Giffords and Kelly formed an organization aimed at combating gun violence that has become one of the foremost groups pushing gun safety laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly ran for Senate in 2020 and captured the seat long held by John McCain in a special election. Kelly’s narrow win flipped the seat from red to blue, and he won a full term in 2022 with a solid 5-point margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly’s biography is impressive enough, but he also has bipartisan credibility in Arizona — a state Trump carried in 2016, and Biden won in 2020 — on an issue seen as a weakness for Harris: immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is seen as an expert on the politics and technicalities of the U.S.-Mexico border and as a pragmatist who supports both more border security and preserving asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"andy-beshear-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump won Kentucky by 26 points in 2020, yet Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear was able to hold onto the governorship last year with a comfortable 5-point margin and retains high approval ratings. And he’s launched this successful political career in a state dominated by the GOP — without compromising liberal values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Harris, he previously served as his home state’s attorney general. The son of a former governor, he’s focused largely on bread-and-butter issues like the economy and infrastructure investment. But Beshar has also worked with the Republican-controlled Legislature to legalize medical cannabis and sports betting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, he’s clashed with Republicans, vetoing a bill that banned transgender care for minors (Republican lawmakers overrode the veto) and signing an executive order that restored voting rights for 175,000 people with past felony convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 46, he’s among the youngest of the vice president contenders — 13 years younger than Harris. He’s also seen as an effective communicator.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>Minnesota Gov. 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He helped flip the state Senate blue in 2022, leaving Democrats in control of both houses of the Legislature and then embarked on an ambitious progressive agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that midterm election, Minnesota Democrats have codified abortion rights, passed protections for transgender people, approved paid sick and family leave, expanded voting rights and increased funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike some of the other contenders, though, Walz doesn’t bring a swing state to the ticket: Minnesotans haven’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"pete-buttegeig-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>Pete Buttigieg\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayor Pete, as he’s colloquially known, has also become a cable news sensation on the left. 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His husband, Chasten Buttigieg, has become relatively famous in his own right, and the two share adopted twins. His sexual orientation could be seen as a potential asset and drawback; if Harris picks him, it would be a groundbreaking ticket.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And they are all from either purple swing states (also known as battleground states) that Democrats need to win in order to keep the White House — or they’ve been elected in red states that are tough for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">like Harris, are former state attorneys general.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person not on the shortlist: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">California Governor Gavin Newsom.\u003c/a> While he’s spent the last few years burnishing his national profile and been a top surrogate for Biden — and longtime political ally of Harris — there are a couple reasons he’s not being considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One, the constitution prohibits a president and vice president from being from the same state. And two, there would be no political upside — and potentially some political damage — to choosing someone from liberal California. 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He also made national headlines for his “bombshell” investigation into Catholic clergy sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro, who is Jewish, is an outspoken supporter of Israel — and to many on the left, a foe of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997961/an-opportunity-how-do-pro-palestinian-advocates-feel-about-a-kamala-harris-candidacy\">pro-Palestinian protesters and the Palestinian cause more generally\u003c/a>. Before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">the war on Gaza\u003c/a>, Shapiro supported Pennsylvania’s anti-divestment, boycott and sanctions law. He has also been vocally critical of pro-Palestinian college protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mark-kelly-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The son of two New Jersey police officers, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, 60, is a former U.S. Navy pilot who flew 39 combat missions during the Gulf War. He went on to become a NASA astronaut, taking four trips into space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, his wife, then-Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was targeted by a gunman as she held a constituent event outside a supermarket in Tucson. Giffords was shot in the head; six people were killed and 12 others injured. Two years later, after the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, Giffords and Kelly formed an organization aimed at combating gun violence that has become one of the foremost groups pushing gun safety laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly ran for Senate in 2020 and captured the seat long held by John McCain in a special election. Kelly’s narrow win flipped the seat from red to blue, and he won a full term in 2022 with a solid 5-point margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly’s biography is impressive enough, but he also has bipartisan credibility in Arizona — a state Trump carried in 2016, and Biden won in 2020 — on an issue seen as a weakness for Harris: immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is seen as an expert on the politics and technicalities of the U.S.-Mexico border and as a pragmatist who supports both more border security and preserving asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"andy-beshear-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump won Kentucky by 26 points in 2020, yet Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear was able to hold onto the governorship last year with a comfortable 5-point margin and retains high approval ratings. 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And soon after, reports began to circulate that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris may shift away\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/14/1244683830/politics-chat-biden-vows-to-continue-support-for-israel-aid-package-in-the-works\">her predecessor’s long-standing support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crisis in Gaza came into even sharper focus last week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u003c/a> on Thursday during his visit to Washington, D.C., following \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-kamala-harris-biden-trump-support-gaza-rcna162992\">her decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress\u003c/a>. Harris said that while she had an “unwavering commitment to Israel,” which she said “has a right to defend itself,” she nonetheless urged a cease-fire deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” Harris said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">her official remarks after the meeting with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. “We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent.” It was a marked contrast from Biden’s previous statements around Gazans, which many criticized for his seeming \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/12/biden-empathy-lacking-palestinians/\">lack of empathy for Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian activists say they are now watching Harris’ campaign cautiously — and that they’re seeing this election season as a key moment to set the political priorities of the next few years. For these advocates, “Palestine has never been a single issue,” said Samer Araabi, San Francisco resident and member of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC). “It’s the perspective of how a government should function, vis-a-vis war and militarism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our moment to articulate a vision for a better version of this country,” Araabi said. “A version of this country that actually upholds the values that it espouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Vallejo resident Halimah Houston said that while they saw Harris as “more competent than both Joe Biden and Trump to do the job,” they “hope she recognizes we need a cease-fire since she’ll have more power as president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Miller, the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said Harris and the Democratic Party now have “an opportunity” to rebuild with their voting base — and engage younger voters like Houston too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Miller, Biden “has essentially broken apart the broad progressive coalition that helped him defeat Donald Trump in 2020” — something she attributes in part “to his unquestioning support for the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Netanyahu’s visit met with absences — and protests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israeli forces have killed over 38,000, injured over 88,000 and displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. Now in its 10th month, the siege of Gaza began after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 of the hostages have been released or rescued. A network of human rights clinics in the United States — which includes institutions like Cornell and Yale universities — found in a May report that Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/palestine\">“constitute breaches of the international law prohibitions on the commission of genocide.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Harris, dozens of members of Congress were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997141/as-netanyahu-speaks-to-congress-several-bay-area-lawmakers-are-skipping-out\">absent from Netanyahu’s Wednesday address\u003c/a>. In fact, according to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1816173408918421683\">Axios\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, 100 of 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats were absent from Netanyahu’s address — a possible signal of change in the party’s reception to Israel, Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This included at least six Bay Area representatives, like former \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/speakerpelosi/status/1816208313572364356?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> and Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, who said in a statement that “the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has taken countless lives, including the lives of women and children, and destroyed Palestinian homes and communities,” and that she would not “condone” Netanyahu’s “deeply divisive policies [that] put the peace and security of both Israelis and Palestinians at risk” with her presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the press after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the vice president’s ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu was greeted with applause and cheers by many pro-Israel activists — some of whom are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-netanyahu-speech-1929811\">elected representatives\u003c/a>. Watching parts of Netanyahu’s visit from the Bay Area, Palestinian Santa Clara resident Ken Afi said the welcome that the Israeli PM received showed him that “these congressmen don’t stand for us. They don’t stand for the people. It’s just about trading power between them and suppressing the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the United States and our Congress and our executive branch had a shred of moral clarity, they would be putting this man behind bars as soon as he landed his flight,” Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC’s Araabi was one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-gaza-war-congress-joint-session-9a7885972989b2397b49e5b971ffe0e0\">thousands of protesters who took to the streets of D.C. to protest the Israeli PM’s visit\u003c/a> and attempt to block his passage to Congress. Protesters were reported to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">pepper sprayed, and relatives of the remaining \u003c/a>Israeli hostages, who wore shirts \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">demanding a cease-fire deal to free their loved ones, were also detained by police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/rashida-tlaib-netanyahu-israel-gaza\">some of her fellow Democrats\u003c/a>, Harris did not say anything publicly about Netanyahu’s presence at Congress, either before or in her remarks after their meeting. And on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/vp/status/1816490945501708660?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Harris condemned some of the protesters\u003c/a>, specifically denouncing “pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric,” the burning of the U.S. flag and “despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lydiakiesling/status/1816517309835673949?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">For some\u003c/a>, this has \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/soulkhan/status/1816515410516377895?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">soured\u003c/a> the optimism they felt around Harris and Gaza, saying Harris’ remarks were Islamophobic for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93DdMwP4WP/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==\">equating these protesters with terrorists\u003c/a> and for conflating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionist activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris and Israel\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress was, for many onlookers, the greatest indication yet that she might split from Biden’s support for Israel if she were to become the official Democratic nominee. The \u003cem>Wall Street Journal \u003c/em>also reported that current and former officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris is not likely to keep key Biden advisers and staff, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C94imq-smNp/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">An anonymous Israeli official was reported as reacting negatively\u003c/a> to Harris’ speech after the Netanyahu meeting — which centered on the suffering of Palestinians — saying it could lead to “regression in the [cease-fire] talks.” Miller of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a> — which describes itself as a “multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis by transforming U.S. policy” — said that while she “was glad to see that [Harris] was more stern in her wording around her meeting with Netanyahu,” she insisted that “we cannot and will not just accept rhetoric.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/362782/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-palestine-biden-netanyahu\">news outlets and commentators\u003c/a> have noted Harris has historically appeared \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/07/21/biden-quit-harris-president-gaza/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theintercept\">more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians\u003c/a> — as well as to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-interview-profile-excerpt/\">pro-Palestinian activists protesting in the United States on their behalf\u003c/a>. In March, she described the conditions in Gaza as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/03/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-commemorating-the-59th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-selma-al/\">humanitarian catastrophe\u003c/a>” and called for a temporary cease-fire. In the same speech, Harris said she was also more willing to be stricter with Israel’s blockade of aid being delivered to Gaza — something Biden had shied away from. Her 25-year-old stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, whose father, Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, is Jewish — has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-ella-emhoff-the-achingly-hip-knitwear-queen-in-line-to-be-the-first-step-daughter\">publicly raised money for Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in June, pro-Palestinian activists protested \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-05/vp-kamala-harris-greeted-by-over-a-hundred-protesters-outside-fundraiser-in-san-francisco\">Harris’ official appearance in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Araabi said activists like him are observing Harris’ burgeoning campaign “cautiously,” especially for her pick of vice president. Names like \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/07/24/josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp-short-list\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u003c/a> have been circulated — and critics are worried about \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/184151/one-vice-president-ruin-democratic-unity-josh-shapiro\">Shapiro’s hostile attitudes\u003c/a> toward pro-Palestinian college campus protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of disillusionment with the Biden-Harris administration generally,” Araabi said, adding that he thinks Harris is now “trying to chart a different course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said he was ultimately “cautiously optimistic” that elected representatives will be more supportive of Palestinian self-determination and rights — that Americans are recognizing Palestinian rights as part of the wider progressive movement and anti-racism advocacy — but asked “how much of that shift is genuine and how much of it is campaign rhetoric?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that she’s not going to Netanyahu’s Congress address is a good sign,” Araabi said. “The fact that she’s meeting with him is not a good sign. We do not need to be meeting with war criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Ellen Brotsky, a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, said she hoped Harris saw that many Americans are waiting for her to take “concrete actions to put pressure on Israel to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s an important part of her constituency,” said Brotsky, who has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for a decade. “Words are helpful, but action is what is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Gaza and Biden’s legacy \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden’s ongoing financial support of Israel has drawn continued criticism in an election year, setting up a difficult potential inheritance for Harris and the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, the bombardment of Gaza has sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">an outpouring of protests\u003c/a> in the streets — and in the last month, on college campuses — demanding a cease-fire in the Bay Area and across the country. Protesters have repeatedly called on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">the United States to cut its sizable aid to Israel’s military\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3754718/supplemental-bill-becomes-law-provides-billions-in-aid-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan/\">In April\u003c/a> alone, the United States approved $14.1 billion for Israel’s military. In contrast, around $1 billion was given to support humanitarian aid services in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars, sending weapons to Israel, and that money has much better uses here at home to actually fix our aging infrastructure and provide support for people who need it,” Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and demand an end to the Biden administration’s support of Israel while protesting outside of a campaign fundraiser featuring Vice President Kamala Harris at a home in Oakland, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Biden stated he has “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/29/nx-s1-4983786/where-is-the-biden-administrations-red-line-when-it-comes-palestinian-deaths-in-gaza\">red lines’\u003c/a>” when it comes to Palestinian deaths and his support of Israel, his views came across as \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bidens-increasingly-contradictory-israel-policy\">contradictory\u003c/a> as Israeli forces have attacked refugee camps, aid workers and hospitals, exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">the humanitarian crisis\u003c/a> that includes sickness and starvation. For the activists, Biden’s legacy is forever intertwined with the suffering in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going to go down in our community known as nothing but a butcher,” Santa Clara’s Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish Voice for Peace Action’s Miller said Biden made the United States government “directly complicit” in the siege of Gaza. ”I’m incredibly glad that he is not running for reelection because he has shown himself on this issue to be absolutely — both morally and politically — on the wrong side,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#vote-ceasefire-group-urges-california-voters-to-signal-gaza-support-through-ballot\">Voter opposition to the war in Gaza has already made itself known \u003c/a>to Democrats in 2024 during the primaries. In swing state Michigan — home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979450/how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a> were cast. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-divide-gaza-war-campus-protests-hurting-biden-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-05-16/\">May poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos\u003c/a> found that “44% of Democratic registered voters responding to the May 7–14 poll said they disapprove of Biden’s handling of the crisis. Democrats who disapproved of his response were less likely to say they would vote for Biden.” According to a recent Gallup poll, only \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647633/biden-approval-rating-hit-new-low-exit-race.aspx\">58% of Americans approved of his presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said that during the primary process, he’d heard from many people “who are self-proclaimed Democrats who said that they would never, ever, ever vote for Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the question now is, can Harris bring those people back in?” he said. “I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking ahead to November\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the Washington, D.C., protest, Araabi said it was “really incredible to see all those people together, all saying very clearly, ‘We won’t stand for this anymore. This can’t be done in our name,’” he said. “This is the thing that I’m sure every fight for social justice has experienced, in the same way that Congress wouldn’t let go of its support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">apartheid South Africa\u003c/a> until it absolutely was forced to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-Hp4uM1uU\">Hundreds of Jewish American activists\u003c/a> were at the Netanyahu protest, which, according to Brotsky, made the world see “that Israel is not committing genocide in the name of Jews. That Jewish safety doesn’t come from oppressing Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who is Palestinian American, told \u003cem>NPR\u003c/em> last week that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">if she had “tried to go to a mosque or Arab community event and urged them to vote for Joe Biden, I would never be invited back.\u003c/a> The anger was so deep. And the hurt was so deep — even for me.” Nonetheless, Romman said she believed constituents would now be open to hearing Harris make her own case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists want Harris to take a bolder stance on Gaza. Some, like Santa Clara’s Afi, say they’re considering third-party options like Jill Stein. Eighteen\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">-year-old Aniya Butler\u003c/a> told KQED last week they would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">not be voting for Harris\u003c/a> due to the absence of a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an African American young woman, it’s amazing to think about the possibility of someone who looks like me being in that state of power,” Butler said. “But what is that power even rooted in? And what is that power being used for? And in terms of right now, it’s rooted in inequity, violence and oppression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky said that whoever the Democratic presidential candidate is, Jewish Voice for Peace Action activists will continue to push for an arms embargo on Israel and a permanent cease-fire. The group also supports other pro-cease-fire candidates like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/our-2024-candidates/\">Cori Bush of St. Louis\u003c/a> and plans to march at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed,” Brotsky said. “[Cease-fire and arms embargo] was a demand of Biden in the Democratic Party. It’s still a demand of whoever the presidential nominee is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activists are nonetheless worried that amid a media storm around the U.S. 2024 election, the death toll in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinians will be forgotten. Miller said she also fears that the government will wait until election season is over to take any action on Gaza and that “Palestinians cannot wait until November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford to slip back into a sense of normalcy,” Afi said. “That’s kind of a scary concept to think the average American might just forget that people are being killed by bombs made in this country and shipped for free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to stay focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Ezra David Romero contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian activists say they are now watching Harris’ campaign cautiously — and that they’re seeing this election season as a key moment to set the political priorities of the next few years. For these advocates, “Palestine has never been a single issue,” said Samer Araabi, San Francisco resident and member of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC). “It’s the perspective of how a government should function, vis-a-vis war and militarism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our moment to articulate a vision for a better version of this country,” Araabi said. “A version of this country that actually upholds the values that it espouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Vallejo resident Halimah Houston said that while they saw Harris as “more competent than both Joe Biden and Trump to do the job,” they “hope she recognizes we need a cease-fire since she’ll have more power as president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Miller, the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said Harris and the Democratic Party now have “an opportunity” to rebuild with their voting base — and engage younger voters like Houston too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Miller, Biden “has essentially broken apart the broad progressive coalition that helped him defeat Donald Trump in 2020” — something she attributes in part “to his unquestioning support for the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Netanyahu’s visit met with absences — and protests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israeli forces have killed over 38,000, injured over 88,000 and displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. Now in its 10th month, the siege of Gaza began after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 of the hostages have been released or rescued. A network of human rights clinics in the United States — which includes institutions like Cornell and Yale universities — found in a May report that Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/palestine\">“constitute breaches of the international law prohibitions on the commission of genocide.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Harris, dozens of members of Congress were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997141/as-netanyahu-speaks-to-congress-several-bay-area-lawmakers-are-skipping-out\">absent from Netanyahu’s Wednesday address\u003c/a>. In fact, according to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1816173408918421683\">Axios\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, 100 of 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats were absent from Netanyahu’s address — a possible signal of change in the party’s reception to Israel, Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This included at least six Bay Area representatives, like former \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/speakerpelosi/status/1816208313572364356?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> and Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, who said in a statement that “the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has taken countless lives, including the lives of women and children, and destroyed Palestinian homes and communities,” and that she would not “condone” Netanyahu’s “deeply divisive policies [that] put the peace and security of both Israelis and Palestinians at risk” with her presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the press after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the vice president’s ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu was greeted with applause and cheers by many pro-Israel activists — some of whom are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-netanyahu-speech-1929811\">elected representatives\u003c/a>. Watching parts of Netanyahu’s visit from the Bay Area, Palestinian Santa Clara resident Ken Afi said the welcome that the Israeli PM received showed him that “these congressmen don’t stand for us. They don’t stand for the people. It’s just about trading power between them and suppressing the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the United States and our Congress and our executive branch had a shred of moral clarity, they would be putting this man behind bars as soon as he landed his flight,” Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC’s Araabi was one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-gaza-war-congress-joint-session-9a7885972989b2397b49e5b971ffe0e0\">thousands of protesters who took to the streets of D.C. to protest the Israeli PM’s visit\u003c/a> and attempt to block his passage to Congress. Protesters were reported to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">pepper sprayed, and relatives of the remaining \u003c/a>Israeli hostages, who wore shirts \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">demanding a cease-fire deal to free their loved ones, were also detained by police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/rashida-tlaib-netanyahu-israel-gaza\">some of her fellow Democrats\u003c/a>, Harris did not say anything publicly about Netanyahu’s presence at Congress, either before or in her remarks after their meeting. And on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/vp/status/1816490945501708660?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Harris condemned some of the protesters\u003c/a>, specifically denouncing “pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric,” the burning of the U.S. flag and “despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lydiakiesling/status/1816517309835673949?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">For some\u003c/a>, this has \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/soulkhan/status/1816515410516377895?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">soured\u003c/a> the optimism they felt around Harris and Gaza, saying Harris’ remarks were Islamophobic for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93DdMwP4WP/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==\">equating these protesters with terrorists\u003c/a> and for conflating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionist activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris and Israel\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress was, for many onlookers, the greatest indication yet that she might split from Biden’s support for Israel if she were to become the official Democratic nominee. The \u003cem>Wall Street Journal \u003c/em>also reported that current and former officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris is not likely to keep key Biden advisers and staff, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C94imq-smNp/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">An anonymous Israeli official was reported as reacting negatively\u003c/a> to Harris’ speech after the Netanyahu meeting — which centered on the suffering of Palestinians — saying it could lead to “regression in the [cease-fire] talks.” Miller of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a> — which describes itself as a “multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis by transforming U.S. policy” — said that while she “was glad to see that [Harris] was more stern in her wording around her meeting with Netanyahu,” she insisted that “we cannot and will not just accept rhetoric.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/362782/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-palestine-biden-netanyahu\">news outlets and commentators\u003c/a> have noted Harris has historically appeared \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/07/21/biden-quit-harris-president-gaza/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theintercept\">more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians\u003c/a> — as well as to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-interview-profile-excerpt/\">pro-Palestinian activists protesting in the United States on their behalf\u003c/a>. In March, she described the conditions in Gaza as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/03/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-commemorating-the-59th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-selma-al/\">humanitarian catastrophe\u003c/a>” and called for a temporary cease-fire. In the same speech, Harris said she was also more willing to be stricter with Israel’s blockade of aid being delivered to Gaza — something Biden had shied away from. Her 25-year-old stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, whose father, Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, is Jewish — has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-ella-emhoff-the-achingly-hip-knitwear-queen-in-line-to-be-the-first-step-daughter\">publicly raised money for Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in June, pro-Palestinian activists protested \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-05/vp-kamala-harris-greeted-by-over-a-hundred-protesters-outside-fundraiser-in-san-francisco\">Harris’ official appearance in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Araabi said activists like him are observing Harris’ burgeoning campaign “cautiously,” especially for her pick of vice president. Names like \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/07/24/josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp-short-list\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u003c/a> have been circulated — and critics are worried about \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/184151/one-vice-president-ruin-democratic-unity-josh-shapiro\">Shapiro’s hostile attitudes\u003c/a> toward pro-Palestinian college campus protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of disillusionment with the Biden-Harris administration generally,” Araabi said, adding that he thinks Harris is now “trying to chart a different course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said he was ultimately “cautiously optimistic” that elected representatives will be more supportive of Palestinian self-determination and rights — that Americans are recognizing Palestinian rights as part of the wider progressive movement and anti-racism advocacy — but asked “how much of that shift is genuine and how much of it is campaign rhetoric?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that she’s not going to Netanyahu’s Congress address is a good sign,” Araabi said. “The fact that she’s meeting with him is not a good sign. We do not need to be meeting with war criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Ellen Brotsky, a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, said she hoped Harris saw that many Americans are waiting for her to take “concrete actions to put pressure on Israel to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s an important part of her constituency,” said Brotsky, who has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for a decade. “Words are helpful, but action is what is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Gaza and Biden’s legacy \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden’s ongoing financial support of Israel has drawn continued criticism in an election year, setting up a difficult potential inheritance for Harris and the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, the bombardment of Gaza has sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">an outpouring of protests\u003c/a> in the streets — and in the last month, on college campuses — demanding a cease-fire in the Bay Area and across the country. Protesters have repeatedly called on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">the United States to cut its sizable aid to Israel’s military\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3754718/supplemental-bill-becomes-law-provides-billions-in-aid-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan/\">In April\u003c/a> alone, the United States approved $14.1 billion for Israel’s military. In contrast, around $1 billion was given to support humanitarian aid services in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars, sending weapons to Israel, and that money has much better uses here at home to actually fix our aging infrastructure and provide support for people who need it,” Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and demand an end to the Biden administration’s support of Israel while protesting outside of a campaign fundraiser featuring Vice President Kamala Harris at a home in Oakland, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Biden stated he has “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/29/nx-s1-4983786/where-is-the-biden-administrations-red-line-when-it-comes-palestinian-deaths-in-gaza\">red lines’\u003c/a>” when it comes to Palestinian deaths and his support of Israel, his views came across as \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bidens-increasingly-contradictory-israel-policy\">contradictory\u003c/a> as Israeli forces have attacked refugee camps, aid workers and hospitals, exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">the humanitarian crisis\u003c/a> that includes sickness and starvation. For the activists, Biden’s legacy is forever intertwined with the suffering in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going to go down in our community known as nothing but a butcher,” Santa Clara’s Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish Voice for Peace Action’s Miller said Biden made the United States government “directly complicit” in the siege of Gaza. ”I’m incredibly glad that he is not running for reelection because he has shown himself on this issue to be absolutely — both morally and politically — on the wrong side,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#vote-ceasefire-group-urges-california-voters-to-signal-gaza-support-through-ballot\">Voter opposition to the war in Gaza has already made itself known \u003c/a>to Democrats in 2024 during the primaries. In swing state Michigan — home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979450/how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a> were cast. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-divide-gaza-war-campus-protests-hurting-biden-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-05-16/\">May poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos\u003c/a> found that “44% of Democratic registered voters responding to the May 7–14 poll said they disapprove of Biden’s handling of the crisis. Democrats who disapproved of his response were less likely to say they would vote for Biden.” According to a recent Gallup poll, only \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647633/biden-approval-rating-hit-new-low-exit-race.aspx\">58% of Americans approved of his presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said that during the primary process, he’d heard from many people “who are self-proclaimed Democrats who said that they would never, ever, ever vote for Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the question now is, can Harris bring those people back in?” he said. “I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking ahead to November\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the Washington, D.C., protest, Araabi said it was “really incredible to see all those people together, all saying very clearly, ‘We won’t stand for this anymore. This can’t be done in our name,’” he said. “This is the thing that I’m sure every fight for social justice has experienced, in the same way that Congress wouldn’t let go of its support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">apartheid South Africa\u003c/a> until it absolutely was forced to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-Hp4uM1uU\">Hundreds of Jewish American activists\u003c/a> were at the Netanyahu protest, which, according to Brotsky, made the world see “that Israel is not committing genocide in the name of Jews. That Jewish safety doesn’t come from oppressing Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who is Palestinian American, told \u003cem>NPR\u003c/em> last week that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">if she had “tried to go to a mosque or Arab community event and urged them to vote for Joe Biden, I would never be invited back.\u003c/a> The anger was so deep. And the hurt was so deep — even for me.” Nonetheless, Romman said she believed constituents would now be open to hearing Harris make her own case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists want Harris to take a bolder stance on Gaza. Some, like Santa Clara’s Afi, say they’re considering third-party options like Jill Stein. Eighteen\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">-year-old Aniya Butler\u003c/a> told KQED last week they would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">not be voting for Harris\u003c/a> due to the absence of a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an African American young woman, it’s amazing to think about the possibility of someone who looks like me being in that state of power,” Butler said. “But what is that power even rooted in? And what is that power being used for? And in terms of right now, it’s rooted in inequity, violence and oppression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky said that whoever the Democratic presidential candidate is, Jewish Voice for Peace Action activists will continue to push for an arms embargo on Israel and a permanent cease-fire. The group also supports other pro-cease-fire candidates like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/our-2024-candidates/\">Cori Bush of St. Louis\u003c/a> and plans to march at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed,” Brotsky said. “[Cease-fire and arms embargo] was a demand of Biden in the Democratic Party. It’s still a demand of whoever the presidential nominee is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activists are nonetheless worried that amid a media storm around the U.S. 2024 election, the death toll in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinians will be forgotten. Miller said she also fears that the government will wait until election season is over to take any action on Gaza and that “Palestinians cannot wait until November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford to slip back into a sense of normalcy,” Afi said. “That’s kind of a scary concept to think the average American might just forget that people are being killed by bombs made in this country and shipped for free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to stay focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Ezra David Romero contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sunday, August 4, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm\">the National Parks Service (NPS) is once again offering free entrance \u003c/a>to more than 400 of its parks in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area’s backyard, that’ll include national parks like Muir Woods and Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#nationalparks\">\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: List of national parks that will be free on Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>NPS offers several free entry days throughout the year to commemorate key dates, anniversaries and holidays. This latest free day will mark the fourth anniversary of the 2020 \u003ca id=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/gaoa.htm|\" href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/gaoa.htm\">Great American Outdoors Act.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you can’t take advantage of free entry to one of these national parks, fret not: You still have\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm\"> two more free NPS days on September 28 and November 11\u003c/a> this year to look forward to.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"nationalparks\">\u003c/a>National parks offering free entry on August 4 near the Bay Area:\u003c/h2>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm\">Muir Woods National Monument\u003c/a>: While the entrance fee of $15 per adult to Muir Woods will be waived on August 4, visitors will still need to reserve and pay for \u003ca href=\"http://gomuirwoods.com/\">parking\u003c/a> and shuttles. Children aged 15 and under can enjoy free entrance to the park all year round.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">Pinnacles National Park\u003c/a>: The entrance fee of $15–$30 per vehicle to Pinnacles National Park will be waived on August 4. However, reservation fees for camping sites will not be.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm\">Yosemite National Park\u003c/a>: While the entrance fee of $35 per vehicle to Yosemite will be waived on August 4, a reservation via \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/timed-entry/10086745\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a> is required from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and on holidays.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/seki/planyourvisit/basicinfo.htm\">Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park\u003c/a>: The entrance fee of $35 per vehicle to the park will be waived on August 4. However, reservation fees for camping sites will not be.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch2>What about free entry to California state parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to explore the newest California state park — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993294/california-has-a-new-state-park-and-it-opens-today\">Dos Rios\u003c/a> — entrance fees are waived for the initial opening phase of the park this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California State Parks has not announced any waivers for entrance fees around August 4, there are other ways visitors can get a free pass into over 200 of California’s beautiful state parks. Residents can use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910495/how-to-get-free-entry-to-california-state-parks-with-your-library-card\">library pass program\u003c/a> and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910495/how-to-get-free-entry-to-california-state-parks-with-your-library-card#californiastateparkpass\">free and low-cost passes\u003c/a> available for senior citizens, folks with disabilities and families with kids in the fourth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on June 14.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/history/\">T\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/history/\">he 2024 San Francisco Marathon\u003c/a> is coming up this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s roads will adjust to accommodate thousands of runners, meaning it can be tricky to get around if you are a pedestrian or driver in San Francisco. Keep reading for the 2024 SF Marathon route, which roads will be closed and where to find bus updates. We’ll also give an overview of the events if you are feeling spontaneous and athletic and want to join in the big challenge a few days before it starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sfmarathonsignup\">Can I still sign up for the full marathon or one of the shorter races?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#watchsfmarathon\">How can I cheer my friends on in the SF Marathon?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#sfmarathonroute\">\u003cstrong>What routes within San Francisco will be closed to cars and public transit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What is the SF Marathon route, and when are the races?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 26.2-mile main event — \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/full-marathon/\">the full SF Marathon\u003c/a> — is on Sunday, July 28. The full marathon starts at 5:15 a.m. Pacific time on Embarcadero Street at Market Street and finishes on Embarcadero Street at Howard Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024-800x415.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024-1020x529.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024-1536x797.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF Marathon’s website has a map illustrating the route for the full San Francisco marathon taking place on Sunday. \u003ccite>(The SF Marathon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are several other races taking place both Saturday, July 27, and Sunday, July 28, including half marathons, 10K races and 5K races, as well as a family-friendly run and a dog-friendly race. And if that’s not enough, you can run an ultramarathon this weekend in San Francisco, too. Jump to \u003ca href=\"#sfmarathonsignup\">more information about the races taking place around the SF Marathon\u003c/a> this weekend and how to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What will the weather be like in San Francisco this weekend for the marathon?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.7771&lon=-122.4196\">Check the weather forecast again\u003c/a> before you head out, but the National Weather Service predicts a high of 65 degrees in San Francisco on Saturday and a partly sunny 67 degrees on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(So far, smoke from the major Park Fire in Chico has not yet impacted the Bay Area’s air quality, but consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930023/map-heres-your-daily-air-quality-report-for-the-bay-area\">checking the air quality for San Francisco\u003c/a> before spending large amounts of time outside this weekend — especially if you have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/wildfires/risk-factors/index.html#:~:text=People%20at%20increased%20risk,Those%20who%20are%20pregnant\">a health condition like asthma that makes you more vulnerable to the harmful effects of wildfire smoke\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re planning to participate in a race or just spectate, be sure to drink plenty of water well before going out. You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878134/bay-area-heat-wave-how-to-stay-safe-during-dangerously-hot-weather\">be strategic about how to combat heat\u003c/a> by cooling your body’s pulse points such as your neck, inside your elbows, and behind your knees. It can bring quick relief. KQED has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878134/bay-area-heat-wave-how-to-stay-safe-during-dangerously-hot-weather\">a thorough guide on how to stay safe during a heat wave\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://support.thesfmarathon.com/hc/en-us/articles/5199699746067-How-many-water-and-fuel-stops-are-on-course-\">The full marathon has 14 hydration stations\u003c/a>, which include water, GU electrolytes, refill stations, medical assistance, and toilets. The SF Marathon encourages runners to bring refillable water bottles that are 50 gallons or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956031\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956031\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a person with lighter skin crouching with one knee bent to tie the laces of their neon orange running shoes. We can't see their face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you still want to sign up for the SF Marathon, you still have time. \u003ccite>(AN Studio/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Can I defer my SF marathon registration until next year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the marathon but not feeling up to the task this weekend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://support.thesfmarathon.com/hc/en-us/articles/9410510855315-Can-I-defer-my-entry-to-next-year-?_gl=1*sii0x1*_gcl_au*MjA1OTc5MTE4LjE2ODk3MDQ0NTA.&_ga=2.182608742.1703521653.1689704450-11086041.1689704450\">defer your registration to next year \u003c/a>for a $39 fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hurry, Saturday — July 27 — is your last chance to do so, and the SF Marathon says organizers “reserve the right to end the option to defer at any time for any reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sfmarathonsignup\">\u003c/a>I want to run in the SF Marathon or one of the other races. What do I need to know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Feeling motivated all of a sudden? You can still \u003ca href=\"https://register.thereghub.com/register/1?day=5&_gl=1*1ul998c*_gcl_au*NzQ5MzYwMjEzLjE3MjIwMTE5Nzk.*_ga*Mzc1OTc2MzguMTcyMjAxMTk3OA..*_ga_49LDBFFZ2M*MTcyMjAxMTk3OS4xLjEuMTcyMjAxMjgxNS42MC4wLjA.\">register for one of the SF Marathon races online until Saturday, July 27 at 12 p.m. PDT.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of attending ranges from $356 for the big marathon to $29.99 for the smaller events. SF Marathon’s website says you can use code 20SFM at checkout for 20% off the price of all distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/full-marathon/\">The Full Marathon\u003c/a> (Sunday)\u003c/strong> is 26.2 miles with a six-hour time limit. It starts at 5:15 a.m. from Embarcadero at Market to Howard.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/1st-half-marathon/\">The Bridge Half Marathon\u003c/a> (Sunday)\u003c/strong> is the one where you get to run the Golden Gate Bridge. It is 13.1 miles with a three-hour time limit. It starts at 6:30 a.m. from Presidio (adjacent to Crissy Field Sports Basement) to Golden Gate Park, on JFK at the Rose Garden.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/2nd-half-marathon/\">The City Half Marathon\u003c/a> (Sunday)\u003c/strong> is the race where you get to run through the neighborhoods. It is 13.1 miles with a 3.5-hour time limit. It starts at 8:30 a.m. from MLK Jr. Drive at Golden Gate Park to Embarcadero at Howard.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/10k/\">The Alexi Pappas SFM 10K\u003c/a> (Sunday)\u003c/strong> is \u003ca href=\"https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/alexi-pappas-gets-a-race-named-after-her-at-san-francisco-marathon/\">named after the Olympian\u003c/a>. It is 6.2 miles and starts at 7 a.m. from The Embarcadero near Mission Street to the Embarcadero near Washington Street.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some more race options: There are two 5K runs on different days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/saturday-5k/\">The Saturday 5K race\u003c/a> allows your dog to run with you on the waterfront. It starts at 7 a.m. and is at Crissy Field Stadium. It is a 3.1-mile course, and you have an hour.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/sunday-5k/\">another 5K run on Sunday down Embarcadero\u003c/a>, at which dogs are also allowed. It starts at 9 a.m., and it is a 3.1-mile course, and you have an hour.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If all this sounds a little too relaxed, you can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/ultramarathon/\">do the marathon on both Saturday and Sunday as an ultramarathon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for something more family-friendly and chill? There is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/family-lollipop-1k/\">Lollipop Family 1K race\u003c/a> on Saturday, which is a little under a mile. It starts at 8 a.m. from the Presidio Sports Basement, near the water. It’s $29.99 to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can’t make it to San Francisco, there is a way to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/the-races/virtual/\">join the race virtually by registering on the SF Marathon’s app\u003c/a>. It is about $79.99 to join, and you’ll need to download the SF Marathon tracking app to follow your progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can get all of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-results-and-photos/\">results and photos on the SF Marathon website\u003c/a> after the end of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956032\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image of several people's legs photographed in a running motion.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be aware of street closures and changes to Muni this weekend because of the SF Marathon. \u003ccite>(Elena Popova/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"watchsfmarathon\">\u003c/a>How can I cheer the SF Marathon runners on?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Are you a good friend cheering on a runner? \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/events-summary/\">Make sure you know which race they are running in\u003c/a> — after all, there are six of them. Look at the above section to check out the times and routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/spectator-information-and-busing/\">track a runner’s progress using the SF Marathon app\u003c/a> using a bib number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/spectator-information-and-busing/\">Read the SF Marathon’s tips for getting to the race.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sfmarathonroute\">\u003c/a>What routes within San Francisco will be closed to cars and public transit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re trying to get to the race for the full marathon’s 5:15 a.m. start time on Sunday, the \u003ca href=\"https://support.thesfmarathon.com/hc/en-us/articles/5199725062675-Does-BART-run-on-race-morning-\">BART service does not start early enough to get you there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/hotel-and-travel-info/\">the SF Marathon will have shuttles from six BART stations\u003c/a> to get you to the starter’s line. Buses will run very early in the morning from Walnut Creek, El Cerrito Plaza, MacArthur, Bay Fair, Daly City, and Millbrae BART stations and arrive by 4:30 a.m. at the Main Start Line on the Embarcadero. \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/hotel-and-travel-info/\">You’ll need to purchase your bus ticket ahead of time, though.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997544 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Marathon map\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-2048x1334.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-1920x1251.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From The SF Marathon.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SF Marathon website breaks down \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/traffic-advisory/\">which city streets will be closed for races at what time\u003c/a>, along with some recommended detours. Vehicle traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge, which is on the route, will remain open in both directions throughout the marathon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of SF Muni lines will be rerouted due to marathon weekend events. Check the SFMTA website for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/project-updates/san-francisco-marathon\">the full list of route changes and road closures in San Francisco this weekend for the SF Marathon. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working out closures and timings isn’t super simple, and the SFMTA encourages people to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/people/311-customer-service-center\">call 415-701-2311 with any questions about transit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID-19,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997154/mail-theft-can-get-serious-heres-how-to-reduce-your-chances-of-becoming-a-target\">how to reduce your chances of falling victim to mail theft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/history/\">T\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/history/\">he 2024 San Francisco Marathon\u003c/a> is coming up this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s roads will adjust to accommodate thousands of runners, meaning it can be tricky to get around if you are a pedestrian or driver in San Francisco. Keep reading for the 2024 SF Marathon route, which roads will be closed and where to find bus updates. We’ll also give an overview of the events if you are feeling spontaneous and athletic and want to join in the big challenge a few days before it starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sfmarathonsignup\">Can I still sign up for the full marathon or one of the shorter races?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#watchsfmarathon\">How can I cheer my friends on in the SF Marathon?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#sfmarathonroute\">\u003cstrong>What routes within San Francisco will be closed to cars and public transit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What is the SF Marathon route, and when are the races?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 26.2-mile main event — \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/full-marathon/\">the full SF Marathon\u003c/a> — is on Sunday, July 28. The full marathon starts at 5:15 a.m. Pacific time on Embarcadero Street at Market Street and finishes on Embarcadero Street at Howard Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024-800x415.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024-1020x529.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SF-Marathon-2024-1536x797.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF Marathon’s website has a map illustrating the route for the full San Francisco marathon taking place on Sunday. \u003ccite>(The SF Marathon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are several other races taking place both Saturday, July 27, and Sunday, July 28, including half marathons, 10K races and 5K races, as well as a family-friendly run and a dog-friendly race. And if that’s not enough, you can run an ultramarathon this weekend in San Francisco, too. Jump to \u003ca href=\"#sfmarathonsignup\">more information about the races taking place around the SF Marathon\u003c/a> this weekend and how to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What will the weather be like in San Francisco this weekend for the marathon?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.7771&lon=-122.4196\">Check the weather forecast again\u003c/a> before you head out, but the National Weather Service predicts a high of 65 degrees in San Francisco on Saturday and a partly sunny 67 degrees on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(So far, smoke from the major Park Fire in Chico has not yet impacted the Bay Area’s air quality, but consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930023/map-heres-your-daily-air-quality-report-for-the-bay-area\">checking the air quality for San Francisco\u003c/a> before spending large amounts of time outside this weekend — especially if you have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/wildfires/risk-factors/index.html#:~:text=People%20at%20increased%20risk,Those%20who%20are%20pregnant\">a health condition like asthma that makes you more vulnerable to the harmful effects of wildfire smoke\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re planning to participate in a race or just spectate, be sure to drink plenty of water well before going out. You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878134/bay-area-heat-wave-how-to-stay-safe-during-dangerously-hot-weather\">be strategic about how to combat heat\u003c/a> by cooling your body’s pulse points such as your neck, inside your elbows, and behind your knees. It can bring quick relief. KQED has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878134/bay-area-heat-wave-how-to-stay-safe-during-dangerously-hot-weather\">a thorough guide on how to stay safe during a heat wave\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://support.thesfmarathon.com/hc/en-us/articles/5199699746067-How-many-water-and-fuel-stops-are-on-course-\">The full marathon has 14 hydration stations\u003c/a>, which include water, GU electrolytes, refill stations, medical assistance, and toilets. The SF Marathon encourages runners to bring refillable water bottles that are 50 gallons or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956031\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956031\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a person with lighter skin crouching with one knee bent to tie the laces of their neon orange running shoes. We can't see their face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67104_GettyImages-1437937016-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you still want to sign up for the SF Marathon, you still have time. \u003ccite>(AN Studio/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Can I defer my SF marathon registration until next year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the marathon but not feeling up to the task this weekend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://support.thesfmarathon.com/hc/en-us/articles/9410510855315-Can-I-defer-my-entry-to-next-year-?_gl=1*sii0x1*_gcl_au*MjA1OTc5MTE4LjE2ODk3MDQ0NTA.&_ga=2.182608742.1703521653.1689704450-11086041.1689704450\">defer your registration to next year \u003c/a>for a $39 fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hurry, Saturday — July 27 — is your last chance to do so, and the SF Marathon says organizers “reserve the right to end the option to defer at any time for any reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sfmarathonsignup\">\u003c/a>I want to run in the SF Marathon or one of the other races. What do I need to know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Feeling motivated all of a sudden? You can still \u003ca href=\"https://register.thereghub.com/register/1?day=5&_gl=1*1ul998c*_gcl_au*NzQ5MzYwMjEzLjE3MjIwMTE5Nzk.*_ga*Mzc1OTc2MzguMTcyMjAxMTk3OA..*_ga_49LDBFFZ2M*MTcyMjAxMTk3OS4xLjEuMTcyMjAxMjgxNS42MC4wLjA.\">register for one of the SF Marathon races online until Saturday, July 27 at 12 p.m. PDT.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of attending ranges from $356 for the big marathon to $29.99 for the smaller events. SF Marathon’s website says you can use code 20SFM at checkout for 20% off the price of all distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/full-marathon/\">The Full Marathon\u003c/a> (Sunday)\u003c/strong> is 26.2 miles with a six-hour time limit. It starts at 5:15 a.m. from Embarcadero at Market to Howard.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/1st-half-marathon/\">The Bridge Half Marathon\u003c/a> (Sunday)\u003c/strong> is the one where you get to run the Golden Gate Bridge. It is 13.1 miles with a three-hour time limit. It starts at 6:30 a.m. from Presidio (adjacent to Crissy Field Sports Basement) to Golden Gate Park, on JFK at the Rose Garden.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/2nd-half-marathon/\">The City Half Marathon\u003c/a> (Sunday)\u003c/strong> is the race where you get to run through the neighborhoods. It is 13.1 miles with a 3.5-hour time limit. It starts at 8:30 a.m. from MLK Jr. Drive at Golden Gate Park to Embarcadero at Howard.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/10k/\">The Alexi Pappas SFM 10K\u003c/a> (Sunday)\u003c/strong> is \u003ca href=\"https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/alexi-pappas-gets-a-race-named-after-her-at-san-francisco-marathon/\">named after the Olympian\u003c/a>. It is 6.2 miles and starts at 7 a.m. from The Embarcadero near Mission Street to the Embarcadero near Washington Street.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some more race options: There are two 5K runs on different days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/saturday-5k/\">The Saturday 5K race\u003c/a> allows your dog to run with you on the waterfront. It starts at 7 a.m. and is at Crissy Field Stadium. It is a 3.1-mile course, and you have an hour.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/sunday-5k/\">another 5K run on Sunday down Embarcadero\u003c/a>, at which dogs are also allowed. It starts at 9 a.m., and it is a 3.1-mile course, and you have an hour.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If all this sounds a little too relaxed, you can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/ultramarathon/\">do the marathon on both Saturday and Sunday as an ultramarathon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for something more family-friendly and chill? There is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/family-lollipop-1k/\">Lollipop Family 1K race\u003c/a> on Saturday, which is a little under a mile. It starts at 8 a.m. from the Presidio Sports Basement, near the water. It’s $29.99 to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can’t make it to San Francisco, there is a way to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/the-races/virtual/\">join the race virtually by registering on the SF Marathon’s app\u003c/a>. It is about $79.99 to join, and you’ll need to download the SF Marathon tracking app to follow your progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can get all of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-results-and-photos/\">results and photos on the SF Marathon website\u003c/a> after the end of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956032\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image of several people's legs photographed in a running motion.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67105_GettyImages-1426678862-qut-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be aware of street closures and changes to Muni this weekend because of the SF Marathon. \u003ccite>(Elena Popova/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"watchsfmarathon\">\u003c/a>How can I cheer the SF Marathon runners on?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Are you a good friend cheering on a runner? \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/events-summary/\">Make sure you know which race they are running in\u003c/a> — after all, there are six of them. Look at the above section to check out the times and routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/spectator-information-and-busing/\">track a runner’s progress using the SF Marathon app\u003c/a> using a bib number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/spectator-information-and-busing/\">Read the SF Marathon’s tips for getting to the race.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sfmarathonroute\">\u003c/a>What routes within San Francisco will be closed to cars and public transit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re trying to get to the race for the full marathon’s 5:15 a.m. start time on Sunday, the \u003ca href=\"https://support.thesfmarathon.com/hc/en-us/articles/5199725062675-Does-BART-run-on-race-morning-\">BART service does not start early enough to get you there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/hotel-and-travel-info/\">the SF Marathon will have shuttles from six BART stations\u003c/a> to get you to the starter’s line. Buses will run very early in the morning from Walnut Creek, El Cerrito Plaza, MacArthur, Bay Fair, Daly City, and Millbrae BART stations and arrive by 4:30 a.m. at the Main Start Line on the Embarcadero. \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/hotel-and-travel-info/\">You’ll need to purchase your bus ticket ahead of time, though.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997544 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Marathon map\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-2048x1334.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/map2024-1920x1251.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From The SF Marathon.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SF Marathon website breaks down \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesfmarathon.com/race-weekend/traffic-advisory/\">which city streets will be closed for races at what time\u003c/a>, along with some recommended detours. Vehicle traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge, which is on the route, will remain open in both directions throughout the marathon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of SF Muni lines will be rerouted due to marathon weekend events. Check the SFMTA website for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/project-updates/san-francisco-marathon\">the full list of route changes and road closures in San Francisco this weekend for the SF Marathon. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working out closures and timings isn’t super simple, and the SFMTA encourages people to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/people/311-customer-service-center\">call 415-701-2311 with any questions about transit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Not even 24 hours after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996616/biden-ends-reelection-campaign-leaving-democrats-next-steps-unclear\">Joe Biden announced his exit from the presidential race on Sunday\u003c/a>, Republican strategists had a new target: Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Harris became the likely Democratic nominee \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12804/kamala-harris-delegates-nominee-dnc-vote\">after receiving the support of enough party delegates to secure the nomination\u003c/a>. That same day,\u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-senate-republicans-nrsc-president\">\u003cem> Axios\u003c/em> obtained a strategy memo\u003c/a> from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which works to get Republicans elected to the Senate. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/rbeggin/status/1815469097045692658\">The document, which lists out multiple attack lines\u003c/a>, refers to the vice president as “San Francisco radical Kamala Harris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris served as San Francisco district attorney from 2004–10, California attorney general from 2011–17 and U.S. senator for California from 2017–21 before becoming the first woman, the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be vice president in 2020. However, despite it being over a decade since Harris last lived in San Francisco (\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-01-07/kamala-harris-doug-emhoff-los-angeles-home-brentwood\">she and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff moved to Los Angeles in 2014\u003c/a>), Republican officials and operatives continue to tie Harris to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region has long been a punching bag for Donald Trump and his allies, who blame Democratic leadership for things \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Trump-criticizes-San-Francisco-for-not-addressing-16664879.php\">like smash-and-grab robberies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-im-fighting-trump-tries-to-cast-us-cities-as-filthy-and-crime-ridden-in-attempt-to-sway-2020-voters/2019/07/02/089463ca-9cda-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html\">homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to know what America would be like under a President Kamala Harris, go visit her hometown of San Francisco,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KevinKileyCA/status/1815091252989481408\">Congressman Kevin Kiley \u003c/a>— a California Republican whose district covers most of the Sierra Nevada — said on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995538/a-california-story-kamala-harris-road-to-the-white-house\">Harris was, in fact, born in Oakland\u003c/a> and raised in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Time and time again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Oakland-based journalist Liam O’Donoghue, the reason why conservative commentators continue to invoke — and attack — the Bay Area is clear: The region is a national symbol for progressive policies, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime there’s a failure or a problem in the Bay Area, they use that to extrapolate and say, ‘Oh, this is the reason why liberalism is bad,’” said O’Donoghue, who also hosts the Bay Area history podcast \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.com/\">East Bay Yesterday\u003c/a>. “We’ve seen this time and time and time again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days before Biden announced he was leaving the race, \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.substack.com/p/prepare-to-defend-the-bay-area\">O’Donoghue urged his East Bay Yesterday audience to “defend the Bay Area”\u003c/a> from “a coordinated campaign to besmirch” the region for political ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t the only one: Oakland-based writer Abraham Woodliff, who runs the popular Bay Area-focused meme account \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/realbayareamemes/\">realbayareamemes\u003c/a>, warned his Instagram followers that same day that “If Kamala Harris ends up replacing Biden, the media is going to start attacking the Bay Area hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should consider the message that they want to spread about the Bay Area,” O’Donaghue told KQED. “When they’re talking to their relatives or arguing with their uncles on Facebook, be ready to have your examples of why you love the Bay and what you want to share about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, given the renewed focus that Republican campaign messaging — and Democratic too — will have on the Bay Area over the next 100 days until Election Day, we’ve brought together just some of the claims already heard from both sides to explore their accuracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll keep updating this story with new claims — with fact-checks — as they’re made, and if you’ve seen a claim about our region that you’d like us to clarify, you can submit it below.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration and sanctuary cities\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ever since his first 2016 presidential campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/g-s1-12087/watch-trump-rnc-speech\">Trump has blamed immigrants lacking permanent legal status for almost every societal ill in the United States\u003c/a>. “It’s a massive invasion at our \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">southern\u003c/span> border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land,” he said in his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/d4e10c51-01c6-4506-bacd-7047aa9a46d1\">In a memo released on Monday\u003c/a>, the Trump campaign linked Harris directly with the immigration issue, stating that during her time as vice president, she had “helped fuel the invasion at our southern border.” But \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GOP/status/1815118190768173111\">an attack ad from the Republican Party’s official X account\u003c/a> went further, claiming that during her time as a prosecutor in San Francisco, “Harris allowed illegal immigrant drug dealers to enter job training and have their criminal records wiped clean.” The attack ad also states that “One of the illegal immigrants Harris released went on to steal an SUV and ran down a young woman, seriously injuring her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “job training” in question refers to “Back on Track,” a program launched by Kamala Harris in 2005 when she was district attorney for San Francisco. Back on Track provided professional and personal development to \u003ca href=\"https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf\">young people ages 18–30 convicted for low-level drug trafficking\u003c/a> with the aim of providing alternatives to selling drugs and preventing participants from committing the same crime in the future. During its initial run, \u003ca href=\"https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf\">Back on Track reported that less than 10% of its participants ended up committing the same crime\u003c/a> after completing the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the participants was Alexander Izaguirre, an immigrant lacking permanent legal status, who in 2009 was accused of robbing an SF woman of her purse. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/D-A-s-office-let-illegal-immigrants-go-3226767.php\">According to reports, Izaguirre then jumped into a nearby SUV\u003c/a> driven by an unidentified accomplice, who then \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-22-me-harris22-story.html\">ran down the woman and fractured her skull.\u003c/a> Under Harris, the SF District Attorney’s Office later told ABC7 \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/archive/6878510/\">that they were not aware that Izaguirre lacked\u003c/a> permanent legal status because the program did not ask for participants’ immigrant status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time that the Trump campaign has specifically targeted the Bay Area’s immigration population for political gain. In 2015, Kate Steinle was fatally shot at San Francisco’s Pier 19 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916187/do-not-return-to-this-country-sf-judge-gives-time-served-to-man-acquitted-of-murder-in-2015-kate-steinle-shooting\">a bullet from a gunshot by José Inez García Zárate nearby ricocheted off the ground and hit Steinle\u003c/a>. García Zárate was in the country without legal status and had a criminal history, but the San Francisco sheriff had released him from jail shortly before the shooting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916187/do-not-return-to-this-country-sf-judge-gives-time-served-to-man-acquitted-of-murder-in-2015-kate-steinle-shooting\">despite a federal immigration request to detain him so he could face deportation proceedings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an absolutely disgraceful situation, and I am the only one that can fix it,”\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10590304/kate-steinle-shooting-opens-can-of-worms-on-san-francisco-immigration-policy\"> Trump said in 2015\u003c/a> as part of his 2016 presidential campaign, blaming \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information/sanctuary-city-ordinance\">San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy\u003c/a>, which blocks local law enforcement from collaborating with federal immigration agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Trump campaign pins this one on Harris: San Francisco first adopted a sanctuary city policy in 1989 — long before Harris entered politics. The city enacted the policy thanks to a widely organized grassroots effort led by organizers from \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/community-rallies-amid-sanctuary-city-backlash/\">the city’s Latino and Asian communities, who have consistently supported it ever since\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What other claims about the Bay Area have you heard from the Election 2024 campaigns?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Homelessness and substance abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one is a popular attack line from Republicans: Point to the Bay Area’s unhoused population as proof that the region is in complete and utter decay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — then an aspiring Republican presidential candidate — \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-san-francisco-gavin-newsom-2024-presidential-election/13408706/\">came to San Francisco to film a campaign ad\u003c/a>, pointing to one littered street corner in the Tenderloin as proof that the city had “really collapsed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s absolutely true that Bay Area cities have frequently struggled to provide adequate shelter to their unhoused population. In some cities, like Oakland,\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/05/15/pit-count-oakland-homeless-numbers/#:~:text=The%20latest%20point%2Din%2Dtime,Credit:%20Florence%20Middleton\"> homelessness has continued to grow in the past few years\u003c/a> despite record investments from both local and state governments in affordable housing and drug treatment efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it would be incorrect to attribute homelessness in the Bay Area to a single reason. The work of dozens of Bay Area journalists over the years — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">including KQED’s very own Housing desk\u003c/a> — has shown that homelessness is caused by multiple factors, including insufficient affordable housing, stagnant wages and a shrinking social safety net. We’ve also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993217/debunking-6-common-myths-about-homelessness-in-california\">debunked persistent myths about unhoused communities\u003c/a>, including false notions that all homeless people abuse substances or reject work opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there isn’t any unified “Bay Area approach” to unhoused communities, either. If you’ve followed Bay Area politics long enough, you know that there are deep differences among local leaders on how to tackle homelessness, which ranges from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">investing millions in temporary housing units\u003c/a> — like what we saw this year in San José — to pushing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">more aggressive and punitive sweeps of homeless encampments\u003c/a>, like what is now happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Crime and retail theft\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Trump branded himself as “the law and order candidate” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-im-fighting-trump-tries-to-cast-us-cities-as-filthy-and-crime-ridden-in-attempt-to-sway-2020-voters/2019/07/02/089463ca-9cda-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html\">blasted Democrat-led cities as crime-ridden national embarrassments\u003c/a>. This time around, he’s doubling down on that message, focusing on retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see these gangs of hundreds of young — usually young people — go and attack a department store … in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Chicago, and they run in by the hundreds, and they’re running out carrying refrigerators and carrying air conditioners and big stuff,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?536217-1/president-trump-speaks-turning-point-action-town-hall-arizona\">Trump said at a speech in Arizona last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, multiple videos have gone viral of groups of people robbing stores in the middle of the day and fleeing the scene with law enforcement nowhere to be seen. Several of these robberies have taken place in Bay Area cities but also are seen in less historically liberal areas of California, like \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/video/smash-and-grab-robbery-of-t-mobile-store-in-orange-caught-on-camera/8008705/\">the 2022 smash-and-grab in a T-Mobile store captured on camera in Orange County\u003c/a>. Thieves go after big-name stores \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/group-dashes-out-of-san-francisco-neiman-marcus-store-after-handbag-robbery\">like Neiman Marcus\u003c/a> but also target smaller family businesses, as in the case of an Oakland jewelry store owned by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/robbery-jewelry-store-oakland-chinatown/3508655/\">an elderly couple who, in April of this year, lost almost everything in a smash-and-grab robbery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican officials have already linked these robberies to Harris. On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Patterdude/status/1815123927519416662\">California State Assemblymember Joe Patterson wrote on X\u003c/a> that “Kamala Harris is largely responsible for the increased retail theft and drug abuse you see today. She wrote the insanely misleading ballot title and summary for Prop 47.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 is a statewide ballot measure passed by voters in 2014 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990587/californias-democratic-leaders-clash-with-businesses-over-curbing-retail-theft-heres-what-to-know\">reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors\u003c/a>. In California, the attorney general does, in fact, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives\">prepare a title and summary for proposed ballot initiatives\u003c/a>, and that’s what Harris did for Proposition 47, which in the 2014 ballot was named “Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Harris act in a way biased in favor of Proposition 47? There’s no evidence to make that claim:\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/kamala-harris-prosecutor-19588933.php\"> Harris did not take a position for or against the ballot measure\u003c/a>, something progressives criticized her for. What’s more, these specific kinds of smash-and-grab thefts are also felonies that remain unaffected by Proposition 47, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system#blame\">that hasn’t stopped other politicians from linking the two.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for a broader spike in shoplifting in California that both Patterson and Trump point to — that story is also a little more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Little Hoover Commission — an independent state oversight commission — released \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report_RetailTheft-1.pdf\">a report tracking retail theft across California (PDF)\u003c/a>. The commission found that while reports of retail theft had indeed increased since 2019, they not only remained on par with numbers from the 2010s, but they were even lower than the 2000s and 1990s. The bump in theft around 2020–21 also happened in all other 49 states, according to the FBI data obtained by the commission. (An important caveat: the commission could only track \u003cem>reported\u003c/em> incidents of shoplifting and commercial burglary and acknowledges that an important chunk of data could potentially be missing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data aside, public perception is much more focused on retail theft than ever before, thanks to how newsrooms cover retail theft — in addition to the compelling nature of viral footage on social media. According to the Center for Just Journalism, which promotes best practices in the industry, \u003ca href=\"https://justjournalism.org/page/retail-theft\">news outlets nationwide published around 200 stories mentioning “organized retail crime” or “organized retail theft”\u003c/a> in 2019. Just two years later, that number had tripled, a rate far outpacing the actual pandemic-era crime bump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big-name retailers used the narrative to justify closing locations across the Bay Area. Walgreens, for example, closed five stores in San Francisco in 2021, blaming theft, but an analysis of San Francisco Police Department data later found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Is-shoplifting-forcing-Walgreens-to-cut-back-in-16536960.php\">other factors were likely to have also played a role\u003c/a>, including competition from online shopping, reduced foot traffic and an oversaturation of Walgreens locations within the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we cried too much last year,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting.html\">James Kehoe, chief financial officer for Walgreens, said in an earnings call last year\u003c/a>, admitting that the company may have overstated how much theft actually happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What other claims about the Bay Area have you heard in the run-up to the 2024 election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Use our form below to tell us what you’re hearing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Not even 24 hours after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996616/biden-ends-reelection-campaign-leaving-democrats-next-steps-unclear\">Joe Biden announced his exit from the presidential race on Sunday\u003c/a>, Republican strategists had a new target: Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Harris became the likely Democratic nominee \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12804/kamala-harris-delegates-nominee-dnc-vote\">after receiving the support of enough party delegates to secure the nomination\u003c/a>. That same day,\u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-senate-republicans-nrsc-president\">\u003cem> Axios\u003c/em> obtained a strategy memo\u003c/a> from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which works to get Republicans elected to the Senate. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/rbeggin/status/1815469097045692658\">The document, which lists out multiple attack lines\u003c/a>, refers to the vice president as “San Francisco radical Kamala Harris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris served as San Francisco district attorney from 2004–10, California attorney general from 2011–17 and U.S. senator for California from 2017–21 before becoming the first woman, the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be vice president in 2020. However, despite it being over a decade since Harris last lived in San Francisco (\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-01-07/kamala-harris-doug-emhoff-los-angeles-home-brentwood\">she and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff moved to Los Angeles in 2014\u003c/a>), Republican officials and operatives continue to tie Harris to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region has long been a punching bag for Donald Trump and his allies, who blame Democratic leadership for things \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Trump-criticizes-San-Francisco-for-not-addressing-16664879.php\">like smash-and-grab robberies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-im-fighting-trump-tries-to-cast-us-cities-as-filthy-and-crime-ridden-in-attempt-to-sway-2020-voters/2019/07/02/089463ca-9cda-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html\">homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to know what America would be like under a President Kamala Harris, go visit her hometown of San Francisco,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KevinKileyCA/status/1815091252989481408\">Congressman Kevin Kiley \u003c/a>— a California Republican whose district covers most of the Sierra Nevada — said on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995538/a-california-story-kamala-harris-road-to-the-white-house\">Harris was, in fact, born in Oakland\u003c/a> and raised in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Time and time again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Oakland-based journalist Liam O’Donoghue, the reason why conservative commentators continue to invoke — and attack — the Bay Area is clear: The region is a national symbol for progressive policies, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime there’s a failure or a problem in the Bay Area, they use that to extrapolate and say, ‘Oh, this is the reason why liberalism is bad,’” said O’Donoghue, who also hosts the Bay Area history podcast \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.com/\">East Bay Yesterday\u003c/a>. “We’ve seen this time and time and time again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days before Biden announced he was leaving the race, \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.substack.com/p/prepare-to-defend-the-bay-area\">O’Donoghue urged his East Bay Yesterday audience to “defend the Bay Area”\u003c/a> from “a coordinated campaign to besmirch” the region for political ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t the only one: Oakland-based writer Abraham Woodliff, who runs the popular Bay Area-focused meme account \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/realbayareamemes/\">realbayareamemes\u003c/a>, warned his Instagram followers that same day that “If Kamala Harris ends up replacing Biden, the media is going to start attacking the Bay Area hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should consider the message that they want to spread about the Bay Area,” O’Donaghue told KQED. “When they’re talking to their relatives or arguing with their uncles on Facebook, be ready to have your examples of why you love the Bay and what you want to share about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, given the renewed focus that Republican campaign messaging — and Democratic too — will have on the Bay Area over the next 100 days until Election Day, we’ve brought together just some of the claims already heard from both sides to explore their accuracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll keep updating this story with new claims — with fact-checks — as they’re made, and if you’ve seen a claim about our region that you’d like us to clarify, you can submit it below.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration and sanctuary cities\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ever since his first 2016 presidential campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/g-s1-12087/watch-trump-rnc-speech\">Trump has blamed immigrants lacking permanent legal status for almost every societal ill in the United States\u003c/a>. “It’s a massive invasion at our \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">southern\u003c/span> border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land,” he said in his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/d4e10c51-01c6-4506-bacd-7047aa9a46d1\">In a memo released on Monday\u003c/a>, the Trump campaign linked Harris directly with the immigration issue, stating that during her time as vice president, she had “helped fuel the invasion at our southern border.” But \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GOP/status/1815118190768173111\">an attack ad from the Republican Party’s official X account\u003c/a> went further, claiming that during her time as a prosecutor in San Francisco, “Harris allowed illegal immigrant drug dealers to enter job training and have their criminal records wiped clean.” The attack ad also states that “One of the illegal immigrants Harris released went on to steal an SUV and ran down a young woman, seriously injuring her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “job training” in question refers to “Back on Track,” a program launched by Kamala Harris in 2005 when she was district attorney for San Francisco. Back on Track provided professional and personal development to \u003ca href=\"https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf\">young people ages 18–30 convicted for low-level drug trafficking\u003c/a> with the aim of providing alternatives to selling drugs and preventing participants from committing the same crime in the future. During its initial run, \u003ca href=\"https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf\">Back on Track reported that less than 10% of its participants ended up committing the same crime\u003c/a> after completing the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the participants was Alexander Izaguirre, an immigrant lacking permanent legal status, who in 2009 was accused of robbing an SF woman of her purse. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/D-A-s-office-let-illegal-immigrants-go-3226767.php\">According to reports, Izaguirre then jumped into a nearby SUV\u003c/a> driven by an unidentified accomplice, who then \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-22-me-harris22-story.html\">ran down the woman and fractured her skull.\u003c/a> Under Harris, the SF District Attorney’s Office later told ABC7 \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/archive/6878510/\">that they were not aware that Izaguirre lacked\u003c/a> permanent legal status because the program did not ask for participants’ immigrant status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time that the Trump campaign has specifically targeted the Bay Area’s immigration population for political gain. In 2015, Kate Steinle was fatally shot at San Francisco’s Pier 19 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916187/do-not-return-to-this-country-sf-judge-gives-time-served-to-man-acquitted-of-murder-in-2015-kate-steinle-shooting\">a bullet from a gunshot by José Inez García Zárate nearby ricocheted off the ground and hit Steinle\u003c/a>. García Zárate was in the country without legal status and had a criminal history, but the San Francisco sheriff had released him from jail shortly before the shooting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916187/do-not-return-to-this-country-sf-judge-gives-time-served-to-man-acquitted-of-murder-in-2015-kate-steinle-shooting\">despite a federal immigration request to detain him so he could face deportation proceedings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an absolutely disgraceful situation, and I am the only one that can fix it,”\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10590304/kate-steinle-shooting-opens-can-of-worms-on-san-francisco-immigration-policy\"> Trump said in 2015\u003c/a> as part of his 2016 presidential campaign, blaming \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information/sanctuary-city-ordinance\">San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy\u003c/a>, which blocks local law enforcement from collaborating with federal immigration agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Trump campaign pins this one on Harris: San Francisco first adopted a sanctuary city policy in 1989 — long before Harris entered politics. The city enacted the policy thanks to a widely organized grassroots effort led by organizers from \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/community-rallies-amid-sanctuary-city-backlash/\">the city’s Latino and Asian communities, who have consistently supported it ever since\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What other claims about the Bay Area have you heard from the Election 2024 campaigns?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Homelessness and substance abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one is a popular attack line from Republicans: Point to the Bay Area’s unhoused population as proof that the region is in complete and utter decay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — then an aspiring Republican presidential candidate — \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-san-francisco-gavin-newsom-2024-presidential-election/13408706/\">came to San Francisco to film a campaign ad\u003c/a>, pointing to one littered street corner in the Tenderloin as proof that the city had “really collapsed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s absolutely true that Bay Area cities have frequently struggled to provide adequate shelter to their unhoused population. In some cities, like Oakland,\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/05/15/pit-count-oakland-homeless-numbers/#:~:text=The%20latest%20point%2Din%2Dtime,Credit:%20Florence%20Middleton\"> homelessness has continued to grow in the past few years\u003c/a> despite record investments from both local and state governments in affordable housing and drug treatment efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it would be incorrect to attribute homelessness in the Bay Area to a single reason. The work of dozens of Bay Area journalists over the years — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">including KQED’s very own Housing desk\u003c/a> — has shown that homelessness is caused by multiple factors, including insufficient affordable housing, stagnant wages and a shrinking social safety net. We’ve also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993217/debunking-6-common-myths-about-homelessness-in-california\">debunked persistent myths about unhoused communities\u003c/a>, including false notions that all homeless people abuse substances or reject work opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there isn’t any unified “Bay Area approach” to unhoused communities, either. If you’ve followed Bay Area politics long enough, you know that there are deep differences among local leaders on how to tackle homelessness, which ranges from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">investing millions in temporary housing units\u003c/a> — like what we saw this year in San José — to pushing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">more aggressive and punitive sweeps of homeless encampments\u003c/a>, like what is now happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Crime and retail theft\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Trump branded himself as “the law and order candidate” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-im-fighting-trump-tries-to-cast-us-cities-as-filthy-and-crime-ridden-in-attempt-to-sway-2020-voters/2019/07/02/089463ca-9cda-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html\">blasted Democrat-led cities as crime-ridden national embarrassments\u003c/a>. This time around, he’s doubling down on that message, focusing on retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see these gangs of hundreds of young — usually young people — go and attack a department store … in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Chicago, and they run in by the hundreds, and they’re running out carrying refrigerators and carrying air conditioners and big stuff,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?536217-1/president-trump-speaks-turning-point-action-town-hall-arizona\">Trump said at a speech in Arizona last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, multiple videos have gone viral of groups of people robbing stores in the middle of the day and fleeing the scene with law enforcement nowhere to be seen. Several of these robberies have taken place in Bay Area cities but also are seen in less historically liberal areas of California, like \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/video/smash-and-grab-robbery-of-t-mobile-store-in-orange-caught-on-camera/8008705/\">the 2022 smash-and-grab in a T-Mobile store captured on camera in Orange County\u003c/a>. Thieves go after big-name stores \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/group-dashes-out-of-san-francisco-neiman-marcus-store-after-handbag-robbery\">like Neiman Marcus\u003c/a> but also target smaller family businesses, as in the case of an Oakland jewelry store owned by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/robbery-jewelry-store-oakland-chinatown/3508655/\">an elderly couple who, in April of this year, lost almost everything in a smash-and-grab robbery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican officials have already linked these robberies to Harris. On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Patterdude/status/1815123927519416662\">California State Assemblymember Joe Patterson wrote on X\u003c/a> that “Kamala Harris is largely responsible for the increased retail theft and drug abuse you see today. She wrote the insanely misleading ballot title and summary for Prop 47.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 is a statewide ballot measure passed by voters in 2014 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990587/californias-democratic-leaders-clash-with-businesses-over-curbing-retail-theft-heres-what-to-know\">reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors\u003c/a>. In California, the attorney general does, in fact, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives\">prepare a title and summary for proposed ballot initiatives\u003c/a>, and that’s what Harris did for Proposition 47, which in the 2014 ballot was named “Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Harris act in a way biased in favor of Proposition 47? There’s no evidence to make that claim:\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/kamala-harris-prosecutor-19588933.php\"> Harris did not take a position for or against the ballot measure\u003c/a>, something progressives criticized her for. What’s more, these specific kinds of smash-and-grab thefts are also felonies that remain unaffected by Proposition 47, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system#blame\">that hasn’t stopped other politicians from linking the two.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for a broader spike in shoplifting in California that both Patterson and Trump point to — that story is also a little more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Little Hoover Commission — an independent state oversight commission — released \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report_RetailTheft-1.pdf\">a report tracking retail theft across California (PDF)\u003c/a>. The commission found that while reports of retail theft had indeed increased since 2019, they not only remained on par with numbers from the 2010s, but they were even lower than the 2000s and 1990s. The bump in theft around 2020–21 also happened in all other 49 states, according to the FBI data obtained by the commission. (An important caveat: the commission could only track \u003cem>reported\u003c/em> incidents of shoplifting and commercial burglary and acknowledges that an important chunk of data could potentially be missing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data aside, public perception is much more focused on retail theft than ever before, thanks to how newsrooms cover retail theft — in addition to the compelling nature of viral footage on social media. According to the Center for Just Journalism, which promotes best practices in the industry, \u003ca href=\"https://justjournalism.org/page/retail-theft\">news outlets nationwide published around 200 stories mentioning “organized retail crime” or “organized retail theft”\u003c/a> in 2019. Just two years later, that number had tripled, a rate far outpacing the actual pandemic-era crime bump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big-name retailers used the narrative to justify closing locations across the Bay Area. Walgreens, for example, closed five stores in San Francisco in 2021, blaming theft, but an analysis of San Francisco Police Department data later found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Is-shoplifting-forcing-Walgreens-to-cut-back-in-16536960.php\">other factors were likely to have also played a role\u003c/a>, including competition from online shopping, reduced foot traffic and an oversaturation of Walgreens locations within the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we cried too much last year,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting.html\">James Kehoe, chief financial officer for Walgreens, said in an earnings call last year\u003c/a>, admitting that the company may have overstated how much theft actually happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What other claims about the Bay Area have you heard in the run-up to the 2024 election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Use our form below to tell us what you’re hearing. 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The targeted surges bring in support from multiple agencies in addition to the USPIS, including the Department of Justice, the Postal Service Office of the Inspector General, other federal agencies, and local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#preventmailtheft\">Jump straight to: Tips for reducing your risks of mail theft\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There was also an 87% jump in reports of theft from “high-volume” mailbox clusters — often found at condominium or townhome complexes — during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mail theft isn’t just inconvenient for those unlucky enough to be targeted. 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If possible, consider requiring a signature upon delivery for things you purchase online so they don’t end up in the wrong hands, Binder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Make your mailbox more secure\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Consider installing a security camera or doorbell camera with a clear view of your mailbox and entryway so you can monitor who approaches your mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Install a secure, lockable mailbox to replace your current one. Some models offer more features than others, including tines or combs to prevent mailbox fishing once items are inside. 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Keep reading to browse a selection of our archive coverage of her accomplishments — and controversies — from her time before the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you want to first catch up on the events that led to Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Harris, you can:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Listen to our two-hour KQED Forum special: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906410/president-biden-withdraws-from-presidential-race-endorses-kamala-harris\">Part 1: The Bay Area view\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906413/president-biden-withdraws-from-presidential-race-endorses-kamala-harris-2\">Part 2: The California view\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hear KQED’s Marisa Lagos, Scott Shafer and Guy Marzorati — who have covered Harris’ career for years — discuss events in this\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996650/biden-drops-out-endorses-kamala-harris-now-what\"> special episode of our Political Breakdown podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996483/if-joe-biden-drops-out-kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-democratic-convention\">what happens next and what you might expect at the Democratic National Convention now that Biden has stepped down\u003c/a> from the nomination.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kamala Harris’ Bay Area background and California record\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris was San Francisco district attorney from 2004–10, California attorney general from 2011–17 and United States senator for California from 2017–21. In this explainer for KQED, CalMatters’ Ben Christopher gives\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995538/a-california-story-kamala-harris-road-to-the-white-house\"> an in-depth overview of Harris’ “California story” that led her to the White House\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an even more local level, in 2020, KQED’s The Bay podcast explored\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832968/how-san-francisco-shaped-vice-presidential-nominee-kamala-harris\"> Harris’ time in San Francisco\u003c/a> specifically and looked at how this period of her career — and her relationship with the justice system — will always, to some degree, define her, for better or worse. (In 2019, this story explored \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773617/as-da-kamala-harris-prosecuted-a-mentally-ill-woman-shot-by-police-the-jury-didnt-buy-it\">Harris’ “complicated record in criminal justice” as San Francisco DA\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11773682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kamala Harris, California’s junior U.S. senator, is trying to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. \u003ccite>(Scott Eisen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqu_aXigJm4\">Harris — who had just won Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat — spoke to KQED Newsroom \u003c/a>on camera about the new Trump administration and the issues she intended to pursue on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11751714/we-believe-that-a-woman-has-a-right-to-choose-pelosi-harris-klobuchar-rally-women\">KQED followed Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Amy Klobuchar to the California Democratic Party Convention \u003c/a>in San Francisco, where Harris told the assembled Women’s Caucus that the Republican attack on women’s rights was driven by “people who are supposed to be leaders who do not understand the value of women’s brains and women’s agency and women’s strength and women’s ability to make their own decisions about their own bodies.” Earlier that year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11734971/should-sex-work-be-decriminalized-some-activists-say-its-time\">Harris had also spoken out in favor of decriminalizing sex work\u003c/a> between consenting adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831285/kamala-harris-is-bidens-vp-pick-first-black-woman-on-a-major-party-national-ticket\">California politicians told KQED about their reactions to Harris being made Biden’s vice president pick\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880754/what-a-vice-president-kamala-harris-means-for-the-country-and-california\">KQED Forum explored what Harris’ vice presidency would mean\u003c/a> for California and the U.S. as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Harris’ cultural resonance and all the ways she’s been ‘first’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Kamala Harris became the first woman, the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be elected to vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the leadup to the election, KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah examined \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848231/kamala-harris-as-auntie-how-art-helped-fashion-an-iconic-role\">Harris’ “auntie status — as an elder female authority figure worthy of respect”\u003c/a> and explored how a design depicting Harris as auntie made its way onto a sweatshirt as part of an effort targeting South Asian voters. Adhiti Bandlamudi also reported on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836800/kamala-harris-identity-is-a-complicated-discussion-for-indian-americans\">how Harris’ identity posed an often-complex discussion for Indian Americans\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, where some felt that as Biden’s running mate, Harris was more reticent to talk about her South Asian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1393px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11848236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1393\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH.jpg 1393w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1393px) 100vw, 1393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of a collaboration between artist Hanifa Abdul Hameed, Nik Dodani, Vineet Chhibber and Meena Harris’ brand Phenomenal. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hanifa Abdul Hameed)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856610/shes-black-and-indian-like-me-what-seeing-kamala-harris-means-to-6-year-old-sumaya-and-her-parents\"> KQED’s California Report Magazine spoke to 6-year-old San Franciscan Sumaya Kaur Sidibe\u003c/a> about how Harris’ mixed heritage made her feel seen as she watched the Biden-Harris inauguration: “It felt great to have another Black and Asian person. I’m mixed, and I’m proud of it.” The show also spoke to Sumaya’s parents about the complexities of representation, especially around Harris’ law enforcement legacy and anti-Black racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874594/harris-to-asian-americans-turn-pain-and-outrage-into-political-power\">Harris — a daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica and the first vice president of Asian descent — publicly recognized the pain\u003c/a> felt by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the wake of racist attacks during the COVID pandemic, saying that “as a member of this community, I share in that outrage and that grief.” In the same speech, she urged the AAPI community to “turn that pain into action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Harris’ election as vice president was greeted in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 7, 2020, after days of nailbiting vote tallies, the Bay Area greeted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846444/biden-wins-presidency-according-to-ap-edging-trump-in-turbulent-race\">the news that Biden had been elected the 46th president of the United States\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846896/its-important-that-we-celebrate-how-the-bay-area-savored-a-biden-harris-victory\">celebrations in the streets\u003c/a> (and outside Harris’ childhood home on Bancroft Avenue in Berkeley.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846476/the-world-rejoices-at-the-historic-nomination-of-vp-elect-kamala-harris\">Communities in India, Jamaica and Canada told KQED about their reactions\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856211/it-just-filled-my-heart-with-so-much-joy-as-kamala-harris-makes-history-her-friends-cry-celebrate-and-reflect\">California politicians — including London Breed, herself the first Black female mayor in San Francisco’s history — offered their thoughts.\u003c/a> On KQED Forum, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880713/rep-barbara-lee-on-kamala-harris-historic-vp-win\">Rep. Barbara Lee also spoke about Harris’ historic win.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, on official business,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868168/on-a-visit-to-oakland-vp-kamala-harris-says-its-good-to-be-home\"> Harris visited her birthplace, Oakland, for the first time since she became vice president\u003c/a>. “It is great to be in Oakland and to be home,” she told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Harris is sworn in as vice president by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Jan. 20, 2021, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, as her husband Doug Emhoff and President-elect Joe Biden look on. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Harris’ 2019 presidential bid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2019, California’s junior senator Harris launched a bid for the 2020 presidency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11720908/thats-not-our-america-kamala-harris-officially-launches-presidential-bid-in-oakland\">kicking off her campaign in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of an estimated 20,000\u003c/a> and casting herself in stark opposition to the ongoing Trump administration, which she characterized to the crowd as “not our America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732906/in-pitch-for-president-kamala-harris-focuses-on-criminal-justice-inequality\">interview with NPR, Harris spoke of her focus on criminal justice and inequality\u003c/a>: “I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757814/kamala-harris-swings-at-joe-biden-while-eric-swalwell-strives-to-stand-out-in-democratic-debate\">Harris’ performance in the Democratic candidates’ debate that summer\u003c/a> drew attention, especially for her sharp criticism of then-fellow candidate Joe Biden about working with segregationists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of that year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789266/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race\">Harris dropped out of the presidential race\u003c/a> after — as KQED’s Marisa Lagos wrote — “struggling for months to break out of the crowded Democratic field and define herself to a national audience.” In a statement, Harris called her exit “one of the hardest decisions of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/gettyimages-1090530330_wide-09217d6970b97a19ce545a2ce0219a2fe4b35618-e1559069387120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kamala Harris will hold a distinct advantage in the 2020 California primary. She has run and won three statewide elections and has high name recognition among voters in the state. Harris launched her presidential campaign in Oakland on Jan. 27, 2019. \u003ccite>(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kamala Harris’ Bay Area background and California record\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris was San Francisco district attorney from 2004–10, California attorney general from 2011–17 and United States senator for California from 2017–21. In this explainer for KQED, CalMatters’ Ben Christopher gives\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995538/a-california-story-kamala-harris-road-to-the-white-house\"> an in-depth overview of Harris’ “California story” that led her to the White House\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an even more local level, in 2020, KQED’s The Bay podcast explored\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832968/how-san-francisco-shaped-vice-presidential-nominee-kamala-harris\"> Harris’ time in San Francisco\u003c/a> specifically and looked at how this period of her career — and her relationship with the justice system — will always, to some degree, define her, for better or worse. (In 2019, this story explored \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773617/as-da-kamala-harris-prosecuted-a-mentally-ill-woman-shot-by-police-the-jury-didnt-buy-it\">Harris’ “complicated record in criminal justice” as San Francisco DA\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11773682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38978_GettyImages-1166586750-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kamala Harris, California’s junior U.S. senator, is trying to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. \u003ccite>(Scott Eisen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqu_aXigJm4\">Harris — who had just won Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat — spoke to KQED Newsroom \u003c/a>on camera about the new Trump administration and the issues she intended to pursue on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11751714/we-believe-that-a-woman-has-a-right-to-choose-pelosi-harris-klobuchar-rally-women\">KQED followed Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Amy Klobuchar to the California Democratic Party Convention \u003c/a>in San Francisco, where Harris told the assembled Women’s Caucus that the Republican attack on women’s rights was driven by “people who are supposed to be leaders who do not understand the value of women’s brains and women’s agency and women’s strength and women’s ability to make their own decisions about their own bodies.” Earlier that year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11734971/should-sex-work-be-decriminalized-some-activists-say-its-time\">Harris had also spoken out in favor of decriminalizing sex work\u003c/a> between consenting adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831285/kamala-harris-is-bidens-vp-pick-first-black-woman-on-a-major-party-national-ticket\">California politicians told KQED about their reactions to Harris being made Biden’s vice president pick\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880754/what-a-vice-president-kamala-harris-means-for-the-country-and-california\">KQED Forum explored what Harris’ vice presidency would mean\u003c/a> for California and the U.S. as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Harris’ cultural resonance and all the ways she’s been ‘first’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Kamala Harris became the first woman, the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be elected to vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the leadup to the election, KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah examined \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848231/kamala-harris-as-auntie-how-art-helped-fashion-an-iconic-role\">Harris’ “auntie status — as an elder female authority figure worthy of respect”\u003c/a> and explored how a design depicting Harris as auntie made its way onto a sweatshirt as part of an effort targeting South Asian voters. Adhiti Bandlamudi also reported on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836800/kamala-harris-identity-is-a-complicated-discussion-for-indian-americans\">how Harris’ identity posed an often-complex discussion for Indian Americans\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, where some felt that as Biden’s running mate, Harris was more reticent to talk about her South Asian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1393px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11848236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1393\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH.jpg 1393w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920KH-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1393px) 100vw, 1393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of a collaboration between artist Hanifa Abdul Hameed, Nik Dodani, Vineet Chhibber and Meena Harris’ brand Phenomenal. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hanifa Abdul Hameed)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856610/shes-black-and-indian-like-me-what-seeing-kamala-harris-means-to-6-year-old-sumaya-and-her-parents\"> KQED’s California Report Magazine spoke to 6-year-old San Franciscan Sumaya Kaur Sidibe\u003c/a> about how Harris’ mixed heritage made her feel seen as she watched the Biden-Harris inauguration: “It felt great to have another Black and Asian person. I’m mixed, and I’m proud of it.” The show also spoke to Sumaya’s parents about the complexities of representation, especially around Harris’ law enforcement legacy and anti-Black racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874594/harris-to-asian-americans-turn-pain-and-outrage-into-political-power\">Harris — a daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica and the first vice president of Asian descent — publicly recognized the pain\u003c/a> felt by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the wake of racist attacks during the COVID pandemic, saying that “as a member of this community, I share in that outrage and that grief.” In the same speech, she urged the AAPI community to “turn that pain into action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Harris’ election as vice president was greeted in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 7, 2020, after days of nailbiting vote tallies, the Bay Area greeted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846444/biden-wins-presidency-according-to-ap-edging-trump-in-turbulent-race\">the news that Biden had been elected the 46th president of the United States\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846896/its-important-that-we-celebrate-how-the-bay-area-savored-a-biden-harris-victory\">celebrations in the streets\u003c/a> (and outside Harris’ childhood home on Bancroft Avenue in Berkeley.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846476/the-world-rejoices-at-the-historic-nomination-of-vp-elect-kamala-harris\">Communities in India, Jamaica and Canada told KQED about their reactions\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856211/it-just-filled-my-heart-with-so-much-joy-as-kamala-harris-makes-history-her-friends-cry-celebrate-and-reflect\">California politicians — including London Breed, herself the first Black female mayor in San Francisco’s history — offered their thoughts.\u003c/a> On KQED Forum, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880713/rep-barbara-lee-on-kamala-harris-historic-vp-win\">Rep. Barbara Lee also spoke about Harris’ historic win.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, on official business,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868168/on-a-visit-to-oakland-vp-kamala-harris-says-its-good-to-be-home\"> Harris visited her birthplace, Oakland, for the first time since she became vice president\u003c/a>. “It is great to be in Oakland and to be home,” she told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1297448032-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Harris is sworn in as vice president by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Jan. 20, 2021, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, as her husband Doug Emhoff and President-elect Joe Biden look on. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Harris’ 2019 presidential bid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2019, California’s junior senator Harris launched a bid for the 2020 presidency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11720908/thats-not-our-america-kamala-harris-officially-launches-presidential-bid-in-oakland\">kicking off her campaign in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of an estimated 20,000\u003c/a> and casting herself in stark opposition to the ongoing Trump administration, which she characterized to the crowd as “not our America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732906/in-pitch-for-president-kamala-harris-focuses-on-criminal-justice-inequality\">interview with NPR, Harris spoke of her focus on criminal justice and inequality\u003c/a>: “I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757814/kamala-harris-swings-at-joe-biden-while-eric-swalwell-strives-to-stand-out-in-democratic-debate\">Harris’ performance in the Democratic candidates’ debate that summer\u003c/a> drew attention, especially for her sharp criticism of then-fellow candidate Joe Biden about working with segregationists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of that year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789266/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race\">Harris dropped out of the presidential race\u003c/a> after — as KQED’s Marisa Lagos wrote — “struggling for months to break out of the crowded Democratic field and define herself to a national audience.” In a statement, Harris called her exit “one of the hardest decisions of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/gettyimages-1090530330_wide-09217d6970b97a19ce545a2ce0219a2fe4b35618-e1559069387120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kamala Harris will hold a distinct advantage in the 2020 California primary. She has run and won three statewide elections and has high name recognition among voters in the state. Harris launched her presidential campaign in Oakland on Jan. 27, 2019. \u003ccite>(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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