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She has been endorsed by major unions, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu.org/2024/07/seius-verrett-seiu-is-all-in-for-kamala-harris-a-leader-who-will-fight-for-workers-and-beat-donald-trump\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/communications-workers-america-endorses-kamala-harris-president\">Communications Workers of America\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/harrisendorsement7212024/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Trump has garnered no major endorsements from organized labor despite his campaign to appeal to working-class voters with populist messaging. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention last week, but neither he nor the union endorsed Trump — and the speech drew criticism from other labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why does this matter?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unions’ support may be able to help Harris win over workers in battleground states who are disenchanted with Democrats after foreign trade agreements decimated their lives, said Bill Gould, a former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board who teaches labor and employment law at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit stands at a podium and gestures with her right hand with several people in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday, July 22, 2024, during an event with NCAA college athletes.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He noted it will be important for her to tout efforts launched by the Biden administration, including investments to create jobs and uplift manufacturing, such as through the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent polling has shown voters more likely to see Trump and Republicans as stronger options to reduce \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-losing-trump-economy-inflation-poll-1928909\">inflation\u003c/a>, a key economic anxiety weighing on the campaign. With that in mind, unions’ money, organizing prowess and political advocacy could play a key role in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why have some big unions endorsed Harris?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those in organized labor who publicly support Harris see her as likely to advance Biden’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden-Harris administration also tapped outspoken pro-worker former officials from California to lead the U.S. Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, tasked with protecting workers.[aside postID=news_11996902 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42922_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_MarriottMarquis_04262020-qut-1020x680.jpg']Trump’s record during his first presidency points to a more “hostile” approach towards unions and aversion to efforts to address sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was “implacably opposed” to legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $7.25, which was last increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage#:~:text=The%20federal%20minimum%20wage%20provisions,fringe%20benefits)%20may%20be%20filed.&text=YouthRules!\">15 years ago to the day\u003c/a>, Gould noted. He expects Harris to be more receptive to supporting the raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we know about the vice president and her involvement in the Biden administration indicates that she would give workers a chance to move forward,” Gould said. “And everything we know about the Trump administration tells us the exact opposite, that they would restrain worker [organizing] and enhance inequality between those who have and those who have not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What have unions said?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In statements endorsing Harris, leaders at various unions praised her record in elected office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, whose organization represents dozens of unions and 12.5 million workers nationwide, said Harris had been a “true partner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5166.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people in purple shirts hold signs while standing in front of a building. 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Together, we continue the work of building an America that works for all of its working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco’s top Democratic organizers weigh their endorsement in what could be a pivotal mayoral election, a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986169/the-rising-s-f-political-star-accused-of-rape-and-abuse\">high-profile sexual misconduct accusations\u003c/a> by and against party members could force candidates to reckon with mounting internal turmoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local Democratic Party’s primary political organizing body is inching closer to rolling out a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mH81MuMPgEbGE9tQa2aElBv_U_mp2QWYrPrttMwsqj0/edit\">set of policies\u003c/a> to address sexual harassment, but some advocates for survivors of sexual misconduct told KQED the process has fallen short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conversations of addressing sexual violence in politics is not a new thing. And it does affect the mayoral race, especially if people want to champion change,” said Alondra Esquivel Garcia, president of the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee, a nonpartisan group advocating for women in local politics. “It’s so hard to do that when things are so embedded in the infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A special panel of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdemocrats.org/meetings/2024/july-24-2024-sf-democratic-party\">present a status report on Wednesday night\u003c/a> on its work to create the group’s first code of conduct around reporting, investigating and handling allegations of sexual misconduct within chartered political clubs. At the same meeting, the DCCC is set to vote for and announce its endorsement for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special committee on sexual misconduct was formed in April after multiple women came forward with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985525/failures-of-sf-office-on-sexual-assault-complaints-draw-scrutiny\">allegations against local Democratic club leaders\u003c/a>, including Jon Jacobo and later Kevin Ortiz, two political organizers in the Mission District. Both have denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, accusations that Jay Cheng, who leads the powerful moderate political group Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, attempted to assault a former girlfriend in college resurfaced on social media, drawing renewed attention and reporting on the 2011 incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng, who went by Jesse then, resigned from his post as a student regent at the University of California following the accusations. Irvine police and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office did not bring charges against Cheng, and he denies the allegations.[aside postID=news_11987959 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-1020x676.jpg']“I have always believed that when these types of accusations are made, that they should be taken seriously and fully investigated. I took the incident very seriously, including never revealing the identity of my accuser because she wanted to stay anonymous, and I have respected her wishes,” Cheng wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24946487-email-from-jay-cheng-to-nancy-tung\">letter to DCCC Chair Nancy Tung\u003c/a> in April, where he expressed his support for the special committee on sexual misconduct in the political community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the allegations and Democratic leaders’ response to them come under increased scrutiny, the DCCC’s special committee aims “to change the culture of harassment and abuse,” said Lily Ho, who chairs the special panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a tall order,” Ho said. “How that happens is to empower survivors to speak up and change an environment and space so everyone feels welcomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, that change is hard to make. Multiple survivors and advocates told KQED they had concerns with the group’s approach so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some Democratic club leaders are looking at ‘innocent until proven guilty’ rhetoric, which often is not seen as survivor-centered,” said Esquivel Garcia, whose group closely follows the committee’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders acknowledged the challenge they face but said survivors and outside experts have informed the process, and it is still a work in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize this is new territory for all of us,” Ho said. “There isn’t any document or best practices that we can carbon copy; that just doesn’t exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Candidates commit to improving sexual harassment protocol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the process is underway, mayoral candidates vying for the Democratic endorsement were asked how they would support survivors of sexual assault. Tung didn’t comment specifically on how their responses may weigh into the decision-making process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The candidates will rise and fall on their own merits,” Tung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates hope the candidates’ proposals to be more responsive to survivors will be an important factor in the DCCC’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that sexual violence in politics is not good and not the culture we want future leaders to be brought into,” Esquivel Garcia said. “And endorsements are a big thing. If someone endorses you, they truly believe in every mission and goal you’re putting forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent Mayor London Breed pointed to her administration’s work, which included creating a right to counsel for domestic violence survivors. She wrote: “Sexual harassment and assault is unacceptable in all forms. 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People have personal relationships with Jay Cheng, and people who are great friends with Kevin Ortiz or Jon Jacobo want to contribute to this process,” Esquivel Garcia said. “It’s hard to navigate those relationships when people have hurt other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mayoral campaigns are also contending with ties to a strategist and former aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was convicted of abuse. Nathan Ballard, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885782/this-is-who-he-is-mara-reinhardt-reveals-extent-of-alleged-family-abuse-by-prominent-sf-politico-nate-ballard\">accused of beating his wife and child\u003c/a> on a trip to Napa in 2020, took a no-contest plea deal that allowed him to avoid jail.[aside postID=news_11996731 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-19-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']In early 2021, Farrell was among 45 people who \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">filed a mitigation letter\u003c/a> to the court in support of Ballard’s character. Farrell declined to comment on the letter of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He isn’t the only mayoral candidate with affiliations with Ballard, who previously worked with the police union and Newsom during his time as San Francisco mayor and as a spokesperson for initiatives that philanthropist and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie led before his bid for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier was initially on the DCCC’s new committee on sexual misconduct but \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/30/san-francisco-democrat-sexual-assault-michela-alioto-pier/\">stepped down\u003c/a> after posts on social media resurfaced showing she, too, defended Ballard. Breed’s spokesperson, Joe Arellano, also wrote in support of Ballard after the Napa incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nate served as a mentor, friend, and office mate to me for 14 years before his personal issues. I wrote a letter on his behalf based on those years of friendship and mentorship,” Arellano said. “I feel terrible for everyone involved, but especially for the children, who have had to experience this ordeal and will forever have their lives changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Crafting codes of conduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far, the special committee has held three workshops with participation from 15 chartered Democratic clubs. The policies are expected to be ready between August and October, DCCC Chair Tung told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee members are considering resources like a third-party ombudsman that reports could go through and remain anonymous, among other options for survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the draft, a club would have to inform the ombudsman of a report within five days of it being filed online, and an investigator would be appointed to gather evidence of whether the code of conduct was violated. Survivors could appeal an outcome, and consequences for the accused would depend on what the survivor pursues, including private or public admonishment or prohibition from attending Democratic club events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft policy also suggests that beginning in January 2025, candidates seeking endorsement must complete and pass sexual harassment training. Club leaders would also have mandatory training on handling complaints, investigations and corrective steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquivel Garcia acknowledged that the process is difficult but necessary for any change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each survivor is different, and I don’t think you can make everyone happy,” Esquivel Garcia said. “But the candidates need to truly take this advocacy into consideration when they are proposing policies or talking about their goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She went on to become the state’s 32nd attorney general, serving in that role for six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders are pointing to that experience in supporting her presidential bid, and a nomination Harris is looking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996675/kamala-harris-potential-rivals-line-up-to-endorse-her-for-president\">increasingly likely to lock up\u003c/a> by next month’s Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anybody knows about unprecedented, it is Kamala Harris,” Chandler said. “She has won [election as] an unprecedented district attorney, an unprecedented attorney general and unprecedented vice president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Chandler said that Harris’ record as attorney general and district attorney could help with Democrats’ messaging on crime and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That includes making sure those who commit crimes are held accountable,” he said.[aside postID=news_11996702 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/AP24204589420813-1020x680.jpg']Rally attendees also said Harris is the most viable candidate to defeat former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so important that we overwhelmingly defeat Donald Trump during this election,” said Alan Wong, president of the City College of San Francisco board of trustees. “We all need to unite behind Kamala Harris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed called on city leaders to unify around Harris, saying civil rights for LGBTQ people, women and people of color are in peril if Democrats lose the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot mess around with this opportunity; 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But they told CalMatters that they are also excited about participating in a historic moment and hopeful that, after weeks of turmoil, Biden’s momentous decision — which included endorsing Harris as his replacement — could turn around Democratic prospects of stopping another term for former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s time to mess around,” said Brian Calderón Tabatabai, the mayor of West Covina who is also running for a state Assembly seat, recovering quickly from being “in a haze” after hearing the news on his way to brunch. “Right now is the time to show we, as the Democratic Party, have our things together, and this isn’t the chaos a lot of folks are making it seem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasha Renée Pérez, the mayor of Alhambra who is running for state Senate, said she hoped that Harris would help motivate voters who hadn’t been paying attention to the election before now, boosting fundraising and turnout in swing districts as Democrats also fight to regain control of the House in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She comes from our home state. She’s a Black woman, an Indian woman. We’ve just never had anyone like her be our candidate,” Pérez said. “We have to get this show on the road and get her elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking Biden’s signal, Democrats across the country — leaders of key caucuses in Congress, party activists, even former \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BillClinton/status/1815102085198958657\">President Bill Clinton and 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton\u003c/a> — quickly closed ranks behind Harris, dampening the prospects of an open convention in which delegates might choose from among a field of candidates after a flash primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/gavin-newsom-biden-democrats/\">widely mentioned as a potential future presidential prospect\u003c/a>, was slower to fall in line. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1815085381081281005\">released a statement\u003c/a> praising Biden as an “extraordinary, history-making president” but did not immediately endorse Harris, whom he had said in recent weeks that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-10/newsom-biden-challenge-harris-president-election\">he would not run against\u003c/a>. His spokespeople did not respond for hours to questions about how he would like to see the party select a replacement nominee, though this afternoon, he eventually \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1815168477562646858\">posted online\u003c/a> that “no one is better to prosecute the case against Donald Trump’s dark vision and guide our country in a healthier direction” than Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1815102711823548552\">notably absent among the voices\u003c/a> initially endorsing Harris was former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who reportedly played an outsized role in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/nancy-pelosi-role-biden-out/\">persuading Biden to drop out\u003c/a> and told fellow California Democrats that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/19/pelosi-support-open-nomination-biden-drop-out-00169893\">there should be an open process\u003c/a> to select a replacement. On Monday, Pelosi \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/22/nancy-pelosi-kamala-harris-democratic-nominee-endorsement\">threw her support behind Harris\u003c/a> in a statement, calling her “brilliantly astute – and <a href=”https://www.kqed.org/news/11996704/former-speaker-nancy-pelosi-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president”>I have full confidence that she will lead us to victory in November.</a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the delegates who spoke with CalMatters said they had alternative candidates in mind, pointing toward a more likely competition to be Harris’ vice presidential pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be surprised if anyone else gets into it,” said Sal Rosselli, president emeritus of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, calling Harris the “obvious choice to replace him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris drew criticism from left-wing critics during the 2020 primaries over her record as a prosecutor and California’s attorney general. 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Not when I understand what Project 2025 is,”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>he said, referring to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/article/project-2025.html\">conservative policy wish list for a second Trump term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Igor Tregub, a city council member in Berkeley who supported the progressive U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 presidential primaries, said he was won over by how much the Biden-Harris administration accomplished during the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen how hard she works every single day on so many issues that I, as a Democrat, care about,” Tregub said. “I am ready to work at 200% to support her and whoever she picks as her vice presidential candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most delegates who spoke with CalMatters emphasized how the party should avoid the drama and contention of an open convention, especially in light of \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933\">Biden’s endorsement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats need to focus on what we’re bringing to the table for working families and Americans, and [the convention] not being a circular firing squad,” political strategist Bill Wong said. “I don’t care who the nominee is at this point, as long as we have a plan to hold the White House in November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, there would be particularly challenging optics of passing on Harris, a mixed-race Black and Indian American woman, who was selected as Biden’s vice president partly as an acknowledgment of the crucial role Black women voters play in the Democratic coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, we want to respect and support the people who helped get us here in 2020, and that’s Black women. We shouldn’t forget them,” said Dan Kalmick, a city council member in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some delegates were more optimistic about the state of the race with Harris’ apparently easy path toward the nomination, citing her forceful statements supporting reproductive rights as a way to win women voters in swing states and the fact that she’s significantly younger than former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Republicans have spent months telling voters the Democrats had an old guy running, and that boomerang just hit them,” longtime Democratic strategist Bob Mulholland said. “Harris should challenge the old man Trump to a 100-meter race to settle this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No delegates that CalMatters spoke to disagreed with Biden’s decision, and several praised him for eventually deciding to do what he believed was best for the country and not just himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this decision cements his legacy,” Tregub said. “History will judge him kindly for his long and meaningful history of in so many ways advancing not just the best of what the Democratic agenda has to offer but the best of America.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We’ve just never had anyone like her be our candidate,” Pérez said. “We have to get this show on the road and get her elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking Biden’s signal, Democrats across the country — leaders of key caucuses in Congress, party activists, even former \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BillClinton/status/1815102085198958657\">President Bill Clinton and 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton\u003c/a> — quickly closed ranks behind Harris, dampening the prospects of an open convention in which delegates might choose from among a field of candidates after a flash primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/gavin-newsom-biden-democrats/\">widely mentioned as a potential future presidential prospect\u003c/a>, was slower to fall in line. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1815085381081281005\">released a statement\u003c/a> praising Biden as an “extraordinary, history-making president” but did not immediately endorse Harris, whom he had said in recent weeks that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-10/newsom-biden-challenge-harris-president-election\">he would not run against\u003c/a>. His spokespeople did not respond for hours to questions about how he would like to see the party select a replacement nominee, though this afternoon, he eventually \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1815168477562646858\">posted online\u003c/a> that “no one is better to prosecute the case against Donald Trump’s dark vision and guide our country in a healthier direction” than Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1815102711823548552\">notably absent among the voices\u003c/a> initially endorsing Harris was former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who reportedly played an outsized role in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/nancy-pelosi-role-biden-out/\">persuading Biden to drop out\u003c/a> and told fellow California Democrats that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/19/pelosi-support-open-nomination-biden-drop-out-00169893\">there should be an open process\u003c/a> to select a replacement. On Monday, Pelosi \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/22/nancy-pelosi-kamala-harris-democratic-nominee-endorsement\">threw her support behind Harris\u003c/a> in a statement, calling her “brilliantly astute – and <a href=”https://www.kqed.org/news/11996704/former-speaker-nancy-pelosi-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president”>I have full confidence that she will lead us to victory in November.</a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the delegates who spoke with CalMatters said they had alternative candidates in mind, pointing toward a more likely competition to be Harris’ vice presidential pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be surprised if anyone else gets into it,” said Sal Rosselli, president emeritus of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, calling Harris the “obvious choice to replace him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris drew criticism from left-wing critics during the 2020 primaries over her record as a prosecutor and California’s attorney general. Progressive activists and criminal justice reformers have criticized her \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/30/why-did-kamala-harris-withhold-support-special-investigations-police-shootings/\">handling of police shootings\u003c/a> and called her \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/kamala-harris-california-background/\">record on the death penalty mixed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t enough to dissuade progressive delegate Calderón Tabatabai. He called Harris “highly, highly ready to take over” for Biden and praised both for pushing a progressive domestic policy agenda, including efforts to expand workers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are issues,” he said of Harris’ record on criminal justice. “Are those issues something that would get me to say, ‘No, I’d like to see someone different at this point?’ Not now. Not when I understand what Project 2025 is,”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>he said, referring to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/article/project-2025.html\">conservative policy wish list for a second Trump term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Igor Tregub, a city council member in Berkeley who supported the progressive U.S. Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Whether President Joe Biden bows to the growing chorus of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/more-democrats-call-biden-step-down-2024-race-press-conference-rcna161486\">elected Democrats\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/poll-biden-drop-out-election/\">Democratic voters\u003c/a> calling for him to exit the 2024 race or continues to seek a second term as a visibly frail 81-year-old, suddenly everyone is taking another good hard look at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/kamala-harris/\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice presidents rarely get much attention. What attention Harris has gotten on the job hasn’t been particularly positive. Counter to the reputation she cultivated early on in the campaign trail as a pragmatic politician and sharp-minded prosecutor, public opinion on Harris soured in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/kamala-harris-approval-rating-polls-vs-biden-other-vps/#:~:text=A%20California%20native%2C%20Harris%20is,according%20to%20a%20Times%20average.\">summer of 2021\u003c/a> and has mostly stayed sour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was partly thanks to the White House saddling her with a series of \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/harris-biden-immigration-voting-rights.html\">unenviable and intractable tasks\u003c/a>. Beyond that, her role, like that of most vice presidents, has been high on profile but low on actual responsibility. It’s a job perhaps best described by fictional \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/veep-final-episode-review/\">Veep Selina Meyer\u003c/a> as the political equivalent of being “declawed, defanged, neutered, ball-gagged, and sealed in an abandoned coal mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor was Harris faring much better with voters in her home state. Last year, 59% of California voters in a Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll said they would not welcome her at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that Harris is being considered as the most likely substitute for Biden, more voters seem to be warming to her. A fresh Washington Post poll found that the vast majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/poll-biden-drop-out-election/\">Democratic voters nationwide would be “satisfied”\u003c/a> with Harris at the top of the ticket. The same poll found her narrowly beating Trump in a head-to-head election among registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the nation is catching itself back up to speed on all things Harris — and that means catching up on a life of accomplishment and controversy here. More than any other vice president in generations, Kamala Harris’ biography is singularly Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Oakland, bussed to school in Berkeley, tested by San Francisco’s cutthroat municipal politics and propelled onto the national stage as the state’s top law enforcement officer and then its first female senator of color, Harris’ approach to politics and policymaking were honed here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that voters are reconsidering whether Harris has what it takes to be president of the United States — and as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-vice-president-vance-rubio-burgum-rnc-6cc438a8370a21b2631f5a53b06b71d0\">JD Vance\u003c/a> train their \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/republicans-turn-focus-harris-talk-replacing-biden-democratic-111705713\">oppo-machine \u003c/a>upon her — we’re resurrecting this look at her California years and career. Here are nine ways that California shaped Kamala Harris and that Harris shaped California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. A child of Berkeley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a state full of transplants, Harris is a lifelong Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was born in 1964 in Oakland — the hospital a little over a mile from the city hall where, more than half a century later, she would announce her short-lived 2020 bid for the presidency. She spent her childhood in Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement, born to immigrant parents who met while getting their PhDs and protesting for civil rights at UC Berkeley. Harris’ father, Donald Harris, is from Jamaica, and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, is from India. The couple split when Harris was 7, and Harris and her sister Maya were raised mostly by her mother, who died in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first Democratic presidential debate in 2019, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/girl-senator-harris-vice-president-biden-spar-desegregation/story?id=64007842\">famously skewered Joe Biden\u003c/a> — then her campaign rival — for his past opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools. For Harris, she said, the issue was “personal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/07/23/who-is-real-kamala-harris-her-sister-maya-knows-answer/?utm_term=.375222da13c3\">rode the “red rooster”\u003c/a> from Berkeley’s working-class flatlands to Thousand Oaks Elementary School at the base of the affluent north Berkeley hills. This was 1969, just one year after Berkeley Unified \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/10/16/a-radical-decision-an-unfinished-legacy\">introduced\u003c/a> its “two-way” busing program across its elementary schools. Berkeley being Berkeley, unlike local integration plans across the country, the city had undertaken this one on its own accord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11901143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Kamala Harris as a young girl.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-2048x1402.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Harris, at age 7, in Berkeley. In her memoir, Harris recalls attending events as a young girl at The Rainbow Sign, including a Nina Simone concert. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kamala Harris/Penguin Random House)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the debate dust-up, Harris clarified that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harris-says-busing-should-be-considered-by-school-districts-not-federally-mandated\">does not support federally mandated busing\u003c/a>, a policy stance not so dissimilar from the one she needled Biden over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traversing back and forth between different strata of society — black, white and Asian; well-off and working-class — is a familiar trope in Harris’ biography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t a homogenous life,” said Debbie Mesloh, a friend who has also worked for Harris as a communication director and a consultant. “She’s a very resourceful person in that she can move in between these worlds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris spent her teenage years in Montreal, moving there with her sister and mother when Gopalan accepted a university research position there. She earned a political science and economics degree at Howard University in Washington D.C. but returned to California to get her law degree in 1989 at the University of California, Hastings in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until her most recent move to Washington, she called California home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresh out of law school, she joined the Alameda County district attorney’s office in 1990, serving there for eight years before crossing the bay to San Francisco. In 2003, she unexpectedly won the election as San Francisco district attorney, where she served two terms before her narrow election as state attorney general in 2010. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. The influence of king/queen-maker Willie Brown\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former state Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has helped accelerate many a successful political career in California (including that of Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom/\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>). Harris got a boost from Brown, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 1994, San Francisco Chronicle’s legendary columnist Herb Caen described the scene at Brown’s surprise 60th birthday party. Clint Eastwood was there, wrote Caen, and he “spilled champagne on the Speaker’s new steady, Kamala Harris.” Brown had a reputation for dating much younger women. In his column, Caen described Harris, then a deputy district attorney of Alameda County, as “something new in Willie’s love life. She’s a woman, not a girl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship ended after two years, but her connection to Brown, three decades her senior, did have an outsized effect on her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1554px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995841\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"A vintage image of a Black man in a tuxedo and a woman in a black dress.\" width=\"1554\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM.png 1554w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM-800x448.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM-1020x571.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM-1536x860.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1554px) 100vw, 1554px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Brown and Kamala Harris in 1994. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would think it’s fair to say that most of the people in San Francisco met her through Willie,” John Burton, who used to be president pro tem of the state Senate, former chair of the California Democratic Party and a San Francisco political powerhouse in his own right, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/09/kamala-harris-2020-president-profile-san-francisco-elite-227611\">Politico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speaker gave Harris a couple of plum positions on two state regulatory boards — the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission. “If you were asked to be on a board that regulated medical care, would you say no?” Harris told \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/news/kamalas-karma/\">SFWeekly\u003c/a> a few years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ connection to Brown also helped her connect with San Francisco’s high society and California’s political elite. In 1996, a year after Brown became mayor and Harris broke off the relationship, she joined the board of trustees at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Harris ran for San Francisco district attorney nearly a decade later, \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/Pub2/AllFilingsByFiler.aspx?id=6679828\">her first contribution \u003c/a>came from Elaine McKeon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Elaine-McKeon-key-figure-in-SFMOMA-s-growth-dies-2502350.php\">chair of the museum’s board\u003c/a>. More — much more — poured in from donors with last names like Fisher, Getty, Buell, Haas and other noble houses of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But from the beginning of her political career, Harris has seen her connection with Brown as a liability — a cudgel that opponents \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/news/kamalas-karma/\">can use against her\u003c/a> and, at worst, a tired, sexist trope used to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/08/01/tomi-lahren-apologizes-after-saying-kamala-harris-slept-her-way-top/?noredirect=on\">question the legitimacy\u003c/a> of her ascendant career. In the first run to be San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris deliberately hired a campaign consultant known for working with clients outside the Brown political machine. During that same campaign, she described her past relationship with the former speaker and mayor as “an albatross hanging around my neck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Brown, he recently told a reporter, regretfully, that he and Harris are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/03/california-willie-brown-reflects-career/\">no longer in touch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. A lack of clarity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You saw it in the presidential race. You’ve seen it in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/kamala-harris-border-answer-fallout/index.html\">as vice president\u003c/a>. As the New York Times once\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/us/politics/kamala-harris-2020-election.html?searchResultPosition=6\"> put it\u003c/a>: “The content of her message remains a work in progress.” We saw it before in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While running the California Department of Justice, Harris was often loath to wade into the political battles taking place just a few blocks away in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a bill that would have required her office to investigate police shootings. She did not take a formal position (though she did \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kamala-Harris-sees-safeguards-in-D-A-s-5972586.php\">tell a reporter\u003c/a> it would be bad policy). The bill died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was the proposal to force police departments to gather data on the ethnicity and race of the civilians they stop. Harris also \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-05/kamala-harris-police-shootings-black-lives-matter\">declined\u003c/a> to take a position. It passed anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the biggest criminal justice overhaul in California in a generation, Harris also kept mum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by a judicial decree that the state had to dramatically cut the population of its overcrowded prison system, “realignment” was a package of state policies passed in 2011 that shifted tens of thousands of inmates out of state custody and into county jails or onto the rolls of local probation systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite in many ways reflecting the lessons described in her book “Smart on Crime,” which argued that non-violent criminals can be redirected into less punitive systems without jeopardizing public safety, Harris, the state’s top law enforcement officer, was silent on the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That earned a rebuke from the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-senate-endorsement-20161006-snap-story.html\">wrote\u003c/a> in its endorsement of her 2016 Senate candidacy that Harris “has been too cautious and unwilling to stake out a position on controversial issues, even when her voice would have been valuable to the debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What some critics call prevarication or flip-floppery, her supporters call pragmatism. Those are just two ways of describing the same quality, said Corey Cook, a political scientist and provost at St. Mary’s College and a longtime observer of San Francisco politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not an ideologue,” he said, meaning rather than stake out the boldest, ideologically coherent agenda, she tends to focus on individual fixes to specific problems. Hence, the “\u003ca href=\"http://v/\">3am agenda\u003c/a>” of her presidential campaign, a collection of policy changes designed to address the problems that keep the average voter up at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that she would have consistent positions on issues informed by ideology isn’t who she is,” Cook said. Harris may appear to pick her battles, he said, because for her, “the only lasting solutions are going to be the ones that are able to sustain a majority coalition of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Making a mark: sex crimes, domestic violence, child abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris has never shied away from the “tough on crime” label when it comes to a certain class of criminals: domestic violence perpetrators, child abusers and sex traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly a decade in Alameda County and a short stint as a deputy district attorney in San Francisco (she left, calling the leadership there “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Top-S-F-Prosecutor-Quits-D-A-s-Office-2710499.php\">dysfunctional\u003c/a>”), in 2000, Harris joined the San Francisco city attorney’s office under Louise Renne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renne said she was looking for someone to head the office’s Child and Family Service unit, which investigates child abuse cases. This was not considered a prestigious post. Prosecutors inside the unit had taken to calling it “kiddie law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renne thought Harris, who had focused on child abuse and sexual exploitation cases in Alameda County, would be a good fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That instinct was confirmed on Harris’ first day on the job, Renne said, when a number of children who had been separated from their parents were formally adopted into new families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She comes into my office and says, ‘Come on, Louise, we’ve got to go over to court. There are going to be adoptions today,’ and she had all these teddy bears,” Renne recalled. “She knew the occasion. She knew it was an important one, and it should be celebrated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ focus on the victims of abuse and exploitation continued after she was elected as San Francisco’s District Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what the term ‘teenage prostitute’ means. I have never met a ‘teenage prostitute.’ I have met exploited kids,” Mesloh, then Harris’ communications director, recalls her boss saying at her first all-staff meeting. Harris then ordered her prosecutors not to use the term in court. A year later, Harris sponsored a bill putting the crime of human trafficking into the state criminal code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats say Harris’ prior life as a prosecutor with a focus on sex crimes would be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-kamala-harris-is-the-prosecutor-this-nation-needs\">key advantage\u003c/a> in a potential general election contest against Trump, who has been found \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/09/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial-verdict/\">liable in a civil case for sexual assault\u003c/a> and recently became the first former president to be convicted of a felony. In that case, the 34 counts were related to the falsifying of business records in connection to an alleged sexual encounter with a pornographic film actress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But using the full force of the law to penalize pimps, traffickers and other abusers has earned Harris some criticism from \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/29/first-amendment-limits-backpage-escort-ads-219034\">civil libertarians\u003c/a> and from \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/kamala-harris-sex-workers/\">advocates for sex workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of her final acts as California’s attorney general, Harris had the CEO of Backpage.com, Carl Ferrer, arrested on pimping charges. Backpage was an online classifieds site known for its “adult services” section, which prosecutors had long warned served as a marketplace for sex traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest was based on a contentious legal argument that pitted anti-trafficking fervor against the First Amendment. Since Backpage was merely a platform for ads, its lawyers argued that it was protected by the same law that protects Google from being held liable for illicit websites listed in its search results. A superior court judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Backpage-Order.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a> and threw out the case, though an amended charge, pursued by Harris’ successor, then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra, led Ferrer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/13/backpage-ceo-carl-ferrer-pleads-guilty-in-three-states-agrees-to-testify-against-other-website-officials/\">plead guilty\u003c/a> to money laundering and conspiracy to facilitate prostitution and to the shuttering of the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. The Harris mantra: ‘Smart on Crime’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons Harris became known as a rising star District Attorney was her focus on prevention, which she explained in her book, \u003cem>Smart on Crime\u003c/em>, written in 2009, the year before she ran for attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health practitioners know that the most beneficial use of resources is to prevent an outbreak, not to treat it,” Harris wrote. “Instead of just reacting to a crime every time it is committed, we have to step back and figure out how to disrupt the routes of infection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit with two flags in the background. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Harris, the district attorney for San Francisco, stands for a portrait in her Hall of Justice office on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris’ “Back on Track” program, considered the most successful implementation of this idea, redirected first-time, non-violent drug offenders into supervised education, job training courses, therapy sessions and life skills classes. It was a modest program but a novel one compared to what most other big city law enforcement officers were doing in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that time period, I think that she was a radical,” Mesloh said. Cities around the country have since emulated the program. When Harris became attorney general, she launched a similar pilot program for Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ focus on prevention produced some of her key accomplishments as district attorney. However, in the context of the 2020 presidential primary, some of those same accomplishments struck many critics on the left as overly punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year after launching Back on Track, Harris introduced an anti-truancy initiative. Based on a statistical correlation that chronic class skippers are more likely to be both perpetrators and victims of homicide, Harris’ office began threatening the parents of persistently absent students with prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has been quick to point out that the “stick” in this carrot-and-stick approach only came out after a series of escalating interventions, including mandatory meetings with school staff and social workers. No one went to jail under the program, though a handful of parents were fined. Within a few years, city truancy rates fell by a \u003ca href=\"https://sfdistrictattorney.org/sfs-anti-truancy-initiative-goes-statewide\">third\u003c/a> and Harris took credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, her office \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100SB1317\">sponsored a bill\u003c/a> to take the program statewide. In the hands of other district attorneys, the statute was used in at least a \u003ca href=\"https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/05/11/truancy-crackdown-lands-oc-parents-in-jail/\">handful\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://hanfordsentinel.com/news/local/truancy-case-not-a-first-for-lemoore-mom/article_53291246-075a-11e1-bc7c-001cc4c002e0.html\">of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/archive/mom-jailed-for-kids-truancy-hanford-mother-sentenced-to-180-days\">cases\u003c/a> to put parents behind bars. Critics have said that the policy has been disproportionately \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e\">wielded against poor parents of color\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://crooked.com/podcast/2020-kamala-harris-on-american-identity-and-secret-recipes/\">interview\u003c/a>, Harris said she regretted any “unintended consequences” of the state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. Harris has (almost) always opposed capital punishment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Her opposition to the death penalty has been one of the most controversial stands in her career, but it’s also an example for those who criticize her lack of consistency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 10, 2004, three months after her inauguration as San Francisco’s new district attorney, 29-year-old police officer Isaac Espinoza was gunned down by a 21-year-old with an AK-47. Three days later, Harris made good on a campaign promise and vowed not to seek the death penalty for the shooter. David Hill was later convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision engendered a predictably fierce backlash from the police union and rebukes from politicians. “This is not only the definition of tragedy,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at Espinoza’s funeral, “it’s the special circumstance called for by the death penalty law.” The assembled officers cheered while Harris remained seated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Harris’ critics say she has wavered in tougher political circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-death-penalty-appeal-20140821-story.html\">federal court judge ruled\u003c/a> that California’s administration of the death penalty was unconstitutional, Harris appealed the decision as state attorney general, arguing that it was “not supported by the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris later \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article74792387.html\">said\u003c/a> that she was obligated to defend capital punishment as the legal representative of the state. Many have pointed out that she was happy not to defend a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that voters passed in Proposition 8 when it was challenged a year earlier. Harris’ response: She was merely reflecting the position of her client, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/diaz/article/Harris-and-the-death-penalty-years-of-13693075.php?psid=e8d2h\">explained\u003c/a> that the judge’s ruling, which held that the long delays between sentencing and execution in California amounted to “cruel and unusual punishment,” could be used to justify speeding up the state’s system of capital punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. Prosecutorial overreach controversies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both as district attorney and as state attorney general, Harris led offices that criminal justice advocates say were overly aggressive in pursuing convictions and lacked transparency in a way that belies Harris’ brand as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/10/kamala-harris-progressive-pioneer-san-francisco-da-column/3334668001/\">progressive prosecutor\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2010, just as Harris was campaigning to become California’s attorney general, San Francisco authorities shut down a police department crime lab in the city’s Hunters Point naval yard. A technician named Deborah Madden was accused of skimming drugs, raising broader questions about the lab’s ability to appropriately handle evidence in criminal cases. (Madden later pleaded guilty).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris immediately dismissed 20 drug cases, but the number eventually grew to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Prosecutor-SFPD-ignored-tech-s-unreliability-3267300.php\">over 1,500 \u003c/a>after documents showed that prosecutors within Harris’ office had known about Madden’s potential unreliability months before the lab was closed but had neglected to tell defense attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A superior court judge later \u003ca href=\"https://legalpad.typepad.com/files/massulloorder.pdf\">excoriated\u003c/a> Harris’ office, writing that the violations infringed on the defendants’ constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Harris formed a unit to handle the sharing of evidence with criminal defense attorneys. She has also said that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/crime-lab-scandal-rocked-kamala-harriss-term-as-san-francisco-district-attorney/2019/03/06/825df094-392b-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html\">did not know\u003c/a> about the problems at the crime lab until after the scandal blew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t done much to assuage the concerns of critics who say Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/kamala-harris-criminal-justice.html\">tended prosecutorial overreach\u003c/a>, which continued once Harris became the state’s attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11836111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11836111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit gestures with her hands while standing at a podium. Two men are behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1836\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-1536x1102.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-2048x1469.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-1920x1377.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks at a news conference on May 17, 2013, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2015, for example, lawyers for an inmate convicted of murder attempted to have the case thrown out after new evidence suggested that Riverside County prosecutors lied on the stand during the initial trial. Harris’ office, representing the state prison system, resisted, only backing down after footage of one of her \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/2sCUrhgXjH4?t=962\">deputies being eviscerated\u003c/a> by three federal judges went viral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for her since-abandoned presidential campaign said Harris ordered her office to drop the challenge as soon as “she became aware” of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics point to other examples. There was her office’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://observer.com/2015/03/california-prosecutor-falsifies-transcript-of-confession/\">defend\u003c/a> a molestation conviction that local prosecutors had secured with a false confession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about that case, the spokesperson said that it was “long-standing practice” for prosecutors within the Californian Department of Justice to file legal motions without the express approval of the Attorney General, implying that, again, Harris was not aware that her office was making the argument. But in this case, the spokesperson added, state prosecutors believed “the original case…was valid and that the victim in the case deserved justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another example: her office’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/kamala-harris-progressive-prosecutor.html\">refusal\u003c/a> to take over a 2011 Seal Beach mass shooting case after a judge recused the entire Orange County District Attorney’s office for widespread prosecutorial misconduct. Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/kamala-harris-progressive-prosecutor.html\">defended\u003c/a> her decision: “It was being handled at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a track record is to be expected of any prosecutor, said Sally Lieber, who worked with Harris on human trafficking legislation while representing Mountain View in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an adversarial system, and so she was filling a particular role, but I think that she was able to do it in a very sophisticated, smart and responsive way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. As California’s AG: Playing hardball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ biggest accomplishment as California’s attorney general was securing a financial settlement with some of the country’s largest banks accused of illegally foreclosing on homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Harris pulled out of ongoing negotiations between attorneys general from nearly every U.S. state and the five banks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JhiSDgCc-g&feature=youtu.be&t=558\">calling\u003c/a> the proposed deal of $2 billion to $4 billion “crumbs on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10405137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS4476_148166024-e1431097814175.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10405137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS4476_148166024-e1431097814175.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a woman with her hand raised.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1335\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Kamala Harris has won an extension of the state’s deadline to process an initiative that would impose the death penalty for gay sex. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris was not the first attorney general to walk away, but the departure of the country’s largest state seemed to have its intended effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, with California back in the mix, a new deal was struck. This time, California got $20.2 billion in debt reductions and direct financial assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some consumer groups and outside experts were critical of the deal, arguing that the banks would have been forced to write off much of that bad debt eventually. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2012/02/the-servicing-settlement-banks-1-public-0.html\">All sizzle, no steak\u003c/a>,” is how Georgetown law professor Adam Levitin put it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris’ willingness to play hardball did result in a bigger settlement, said Rob McKenna, former Washington attorney general who was part of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s possible for states to overstate the impact they had on the final settlement. The former New York Attorney General (Eric Schneiderman) would sometimes make claims about the settlement and improvements he had obtained,” he said. “But it’s fair to say that Attorney General Harris negotiated and obtained some improvement in the settlement for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>9. Kamala, the campaigner\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris launched her 2020 presidential campaign high on fanfare and hype, only to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/12/03/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race-1230369\">flame out less than a year later\u003c/a> before even making it to Iowa. It was a historically stark underperformance from a candidate that many Democratic insiders believed would be a formidable contender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Harris’ electoral track record has been mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first spin on the campaign trail was a superlative success. In her 2003 race for San Francisco District Attorney, she pushed out a two-term incumbent and won more votes than any other candidate running for a city-wide office that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ first run for statewide office didn’t go quite smoothly. Her race for Attorney General against Republican Steve Cooley wasn’t called until \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-nov-25-la-me-cooley-20101125-story.html\">weeks after Election Day\u003c/a>. Yes, Harris won. But she did so by less than a percentage point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after 18 years in which not a single Republican has won statewide office in California, it’s easy to look back at that nail-biter of an election and see an early sign of Harris’ weakness as a candidate. But at the time, the calculus was a little different. Cooley, a relative moderate, was considered the favorite to win against Harris, a San Francisco liberal. This was 2010, which proved to be a historic landslide election for the GOP. The fact that Harris eked it out despite those headwinds, and as the first woman and person of color to hold that office no less, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2010/12/kamala-harris-democrats-anti-palin-046783\">cemented her status as a rising star\u003c/a> in the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995814\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman wearing face masks walk outside.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490-800x726.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490-1020x925.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490-160x145.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, met with Gov. Gavin Newsom and CalFire officials to review the devastation of the Creek fire in Pineridge on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also rising was Gavin Newsom. The two were San Francisco friends who ran in the same social circles even before their political careers ignited. They share the same political consultants. And when the two most prestigious California elective offices opened up — for governor and U.S. senator — they sidestepped a ballot rivalry when she successfully ran for the Senate, as did he for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-newsom-i-m-not-convinced-we-ve-learned-the-lessons-from-covid-192566853729\">said\u003c/a> — and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-12/as-kamala-harris-rises-gavin-newsoms-short-term-presidential-prospects-fall\">reiterated\u003c/a> — that he would not challenge Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination should Biden withdraw. Although \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/07/gavin-newsom-for-president-assets-liabilities/\">Newsom’s name frequently appears\u003c/a> on lists of hypothetical Biden replacements, she is already on the ticket and is seen by many as the heir-apparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, both are publicly saying now, again and again, that they are backing Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story incorporates prior reporting and interviews from CalMatters’ 2020 election coverage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Whether President Joe Biden bows to the growing chorus of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/more-democrats-call-biden-step-down-2024-race-press-conference-rcna161486\">elected Democrats\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/poll-biden-drop-out-election/\">Democratic voters\u003c/a> calling for him to exit the 2024 race or continues to seek a second term as a visibly frail 81-year-old, suddenly everyone is taking another good hard look at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/kamala-harris/\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice presidents rarely get much attention. What attention Harris has gotten on the job hasn’t been particularly positive. Counter to the reputation she cultivated early on in the campaign trail as a pragmatic politician and sharp-minded prosecutor, public opinion on Harris soured in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/kamala-harris-approval-rating-polls-vs-biden-other-vps/#:~:text=A%20California%20native%2C%20Harris%20is,according%20to%20a%20Times%20average.\">summer of 2021\u003c/a> and has mostly stayed sour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was partly thanks to the White House saddling her with a series of \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/harris-biden-immigration-voting-rights.html\">unenviable and intractable tasks\u003c/a>. Beyond that, her role, like that of most vice presidents, has been high on profile but low on actual responsibility. It’s a job perhaps best described by fictional \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/veep-final-episode-review/\">Veep Selina Meyer\u003c/a> as the political equivalent of being “declawed, defanged, neutered, ball-gagged, and sealed in an abandoned coal mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor was Harris faring much better with voters in her home state. Last year, 59% of California voters in a Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll said they would not welcome her at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that Harris is being considered as the most likely substitute for Biden, more voters seem to be warming to her. A fresh Washington Post poll found that the vast majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/poll-biden-drop-out-election/\">Democratic voters nationwide would be “satisfied”\u003c/a> with Harris at the top of the ticket. The same poll found her narrowly beating Trump in a head-to-head election among registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the nation is catching itself back up to speed on all things Harris — and that means catching up on a life of accomplishment and controversy here. More than any other vice president in generations, Kamala Harris’ biography is singularly Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Oakland, bussed to school in Berkeley, tested by San Francisco’s cutthroat municipal politics and propelled onto the national stage as the state’s top law enforcement officer and then its first female senator of color, Harris’ approach to politics and policymaking were honed here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that voters are reconsidering whether Harris has what it takes to be president of the United States — and as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-vice-president-vance-rubio-burgum-rnc-6cc438a8370a21b2631f5a53b06b71d0\">JD Vance\u003c/a> train their \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/republicans-turn-focus-harris-talk-replacing-biden-democratic-111705713\">oppo-machine \u003c/a>upon her — we’re resurrecting this look at her California years and career. Here are nine ways that California shaped Kamala Harris and that Harris shaped California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. A child of Berkeley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a state full of transplants, Harris is a lifelong Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was born in 1964 in Oakland — the hospital a little over a mile from the city hall where, more than half a century later, she would announce her short-lived 2020 bid for the presidency. She spent her childhood in Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement, born to immigrant parents who met while getting their PhDs and protesting for civil rights at UC Berkeley. Harris’ father, Donald Harris, is from Jamaica, and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, is from India. The couple split when Harris was 7, and Harris and her sister Maya were raised mostly by her mother, who died in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first Democratic presidential debate in 2019, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/girl-senator-harris-vice-president-biden-spar-desegregation/story?id=64007842\">famously skewered Joe Biden\u003c/a> — then her campaign rival — for his past opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools. For Harris, she said, the issue was “personal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/07/23/who-is-real-kamala-harris-her-sister-maya-knows-answer/?utm_term=.375222da13c3\">rode the “red rooster”\u003c/a> from Berkeley’s working-class flatlands to Thousand Oaks Elementary School at the base of the affluent north Berkeley hills. This was 1969, just one year after Berkeley Unified \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/10/16/a-radical-decision-an-unfinished-legacy\">introduced\u003c/a> its “two-way” busing program across its elementary schools. Berkeley being Berkeley, unlike local integration plans across the country, the city had undertaken this one on its own accord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11901143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Kamala Harris as a young girl.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-2048x1402.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Art.16-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Harris, at age 7, in Berkeley. In her memoir, Harris recalls attending events as a young girl at The Rainbow Sign, including a Nina Simone concert. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kamala Harris/Penguin Random House)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the debate dust-up, Harris clarified that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harris-says-busing-should-be-considered-by-school-districts-not-federally-mandated\">does not support federally mandated busing\u003c/a>, a policy stance not so dissimilar from the one she needled Biden over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traversing back and forth between different strata of society — black, white and Asian; well-off and working-class — is a familiar trope in Harris’ biography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t a homogenous life,” said Debbie Mesloh, a friend who has also worked for Harris as a communication director and a consultant. “She’s a very resourceful person in that she can move in between these worlds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris spent her teenage years in Montreal, moving there with her sister and mother when Gopalan accepted a university research position there. She earned a political science and economics degree at Howard University in Washington D.C. but returned to California to get her law degree in 1989 at the University of California, Hastings in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until her most recent move to Washington, she called California home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresh out of law school, she joined the Alameda County district attorney’s office in 1990, serving there for eight years before crossing the bay to San Francisco. In 2003, she unexpectedly won the election as San Francisco district attorney, where she served two terms before her narrow election as state attorney general in 2010. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. The influence of king/queen-maker Willie Brown\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former state Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has helped accelerate many a successful political career in California (including that of Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom/\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>). Harris got a boost from Brown, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 1994, San Francisco Chronicle’s legendary columnist Herb Caen described the scene at Brown’s surprise 60th birthday party. Clint Eastwood was there, wrote Caen, and he “spilled champagne on the Speaker’s new steady, Kamala Harris.” Brown had a reputation for dating much younger women. In his column, Caen described Harris, then a deputy district attorney of Alameda County, as “something new in Willie’s love life. She’s a woman, not a girl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship ended after two years, but her connection to Brown, three decades her senior, did have an outsized effect on her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1554px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995841\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"A vintage image of a Black man in a tuxedo and a woman in a black dress.\" width=\"1554\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM.png 1554w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM-800x448.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM-1020x571.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-10.18.42 AM-1536x860.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1554px) 100vw, 1554px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Brown and Kamala Harris in 1994. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would think it’s fair to say that most of the people in San Francisco met her through Willie,” John Burton, who used to be president pro tem of the state Senate, former chair of the California Democratic Party and a San Francisco political powerhouse in his own right, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/09/kamala-harris-2020-president-profile-san-francisco-elite-227611\">Politico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speaker gave Harris a couple of plum positions on two state regulatory boards — the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission. “If you were asked to be on a board that regulated medical care, would you say no?” Harris told \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/news/kamalas-karma/\">SFWeekly\u003c/a> a few years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ connection to Brown also helped her connect with San Francisco’s high society and California’s political elite. In 1996, a year after Brown became mayor and Harris broke off the relationship, she joined the board of trustees at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Harris ran for San Francisco district attorney nearly a decade later, \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/Pub2/AllFilingsByFiler.aspx?id=6679828\">her first contribution \u003c/a>came from Elaine McKeon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Elaine-McKeon-key-figure-in-SFMOMA-s-growth-dies-2502350.php\">chair of the museum’s board\u003c/a>. More — much more — poured in from donors with last names like Fisher, Getty, Buell, Haas and other noble houses of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But from the beginning of her political career, Harris has seen her connection with Brown as a liability — a cudgel that opponents \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/news/kamalas-karma/\">can use against her\u003c/a> and, at worst, a tired, sexist trope used to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/08/01/tomi-lahren-apologizes-after-saying-kamala-harris-slept-her-way-top/?noredirect=on\">question the legitimacy\u003c/a> of her ascendant career. In the first run to be San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris deliberately hired a campaign consultant known for working with clients outside the Brown political machine. During that same campaign, she described her past relationship with the former speaker and mayor as “an albatross hanging around my neck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Brown, he recently told a reporter, regretfully, that he and Harris are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/03/california-willie-brown-reflects-career/\">no longer in touch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. A lack of clarity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You saw it in the presidential race. You’ve seen it in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/kamala-harris-border-answer-fallout/index.html\">as vice president\u003c/a>. As the New York Times once\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/us/politics/kamala-harris-2020-election.html?searchResultPosition=6\"> put it\u003c/a>: “The content of her message remains a work in progress.” We saw it before in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While running the California Department of Justice, Harris was often loath to wade into the political battles taking place just a few blocks away in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a bill that would have required her office to investigate police shootings. She did not take a formal position (though she did \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kamala-Harris-sees-safeguards-in-D-A-s-5972586.php\">tell a reporter\u003c/a> it would be bad policy). The bill died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was the proposal to force police departments to gather data on the ethnicity and race of the civilians they stop. Harris also \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-05/kamala-harris-police-shootings-black-lives-matter\">declined\u003c/a> to take a position. It passed anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the biggest criminal justice overhaul in California in a generation, Harris also kept mum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by a judicial decree that the state had to dramatically cut the population of its overcrowded prison system, “realignment” was a package of state policies passed in 2011 that shifted tens of thousands of inmates out of state custody and into county jails or onto the rolls of local probation systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite in many ways reflecting the lessons described in her book “Smart on Crime,” which argued that non-violent criminals can be redirected into less punitive systems without jeopardizing public safety, Harris, the state’s top law enforcement officer, was silent on the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That earned a rebuke from the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-senate-endorsement-20161006-snap-story.html\">wrote\u003c/a> in its endorsement of her 2016 Senate candidacy that Harris “has been too cautious and unwilling to stake out a position on controversial issues, even when her voice would have been valuable to the debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What some critics call prevarication or flip-floppery, her supporters call pragmatism. Those are just two ways of describing the same quality, said Corey Cook, a political scientist and provost at St. Mary’s College and a longtime observer of San Francisco politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not an ideologue,” he said, meaning rather than stake out the boldest, ideologically coherent agenda, she tends to focus on individual fixes to specific problems. Hence, the “\u003ca href=\"http://v/\">3am agenda\u003c/a>” of her presidential campaign, a collection of policy changes designed to address the problems that keep the average voter up at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that she would have consistent positions on issues informed by ideology isn’t who she is,” Cook said. Harris may appear to pick her battles, he said, because for her, “the only lasting solutions are going to be the ones that are able to sustain a majority coalition of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Making a mark: sex crimes, domestic violence, child abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris has never shied away from the “tough on crime” label when it comes to a certain class of criminals: domestic violence perpetrators, child abusers and sex traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly a decade in Alameda County and a short stint as a deputy district attorney in San Francisco (she left, calling the leadership there “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Top-S-F-Prosecutor-Quits-D-A-s-Office-2710499.php\">dysfunctional\u003c/a>”), in 2000, Harris joined the San Francisco city attorney’s office under Louise Renne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renne said she was looking for someone to head the office’s Child and Family Service unit, which investigates child abuse cases. This was not considered a prestigious post. Prosecutors inside the unit had taken to calling it “kiddie law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renne thought Harris, who had focused on child abuse and sexual exploitation cases in Alameda County, would be a good fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That instinct was confirmed on Harris’ first day on the job, Renne said, when a number of children who had been separated from their parents were formally adopted into new families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She comes into my office and says, ‘Come on, Louise, we’ve got to go over to court. There are going to be adoptions today,’ and she had all these teddy bears,” Renne recalled. “She knew the occasion. She knew it was an important one, and it should be celebrated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ focus on the victims of abuse and exploitation continued after she was elected as San Francisco’s District Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what the term ‘teenage prostitute’ means. I have never met a ‘teenage prostitute.’ I have met exploited kids,” Mesloh, then Harris’ communications director, recalls her boss saying at her first all-staff meeting. Harris then ordered her prosecutors not to use the term in court. A year later, Harris sponsored a bill putting the crime of human trafficking into the state criminal code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats say Harris’ prior life as a prosecutor with a focus on sex crimes would be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-kamala-harris-is-the-prosecutor-this-nation-needs\">key advantage\u003c/a> in a potential general election contest against Trump, who has been found \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/09/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial-verdict/\">liable in a civil case for sexual assault\u003c/a> and recently became the first former president to be convicted of a felony. In that case, the 34 counts were related to the falsifying of business records in connection to an alleged sexual encounter with a pornographic film actress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But using the full force of the law to penalize pimps, traffickers and other abusers has earned Harris some criticism from \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/29/first-amendment-limits-backpage-escort-ads-219034\">civil libertarians\u003c/a> and from \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/kamala-harris-sex-workers/\">advocates for sex workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of her final acts as California’s attorney general, Harris had the CEO of Backpage.com, Carl Ferrer, arrested on pimping charges. Backpage was an online classifieds site known for its “adult services” section, which prosecutors had long warned served as a marketplace for sex traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest was based on a contentious legal argument that pitted anti-trafficking fervor against the First Amendment. Since Backpage was merely a platform for ads, its lawyers argued that it was protected by the same law that protects Google from being held liable for illicit websites listed in its search results. A superior court judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Backpage-Order.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a> and threw out the case, though an amended charge, pursued by Harris’ successor, then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra, led Ferrer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/13/backpage-ceo-carl-ferrer-pleads-guilty-in-three-states-agrees-to-testify-against-other-website-officials/\">plead guilty\u003c/a> to money laundering and conspiracy to facilitate prostitution and to the shuttering of the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. The Harris mantra: ‘Smart on Crime’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons Harris became known as a rising star District Attorney was her focus on prevention, which she explained in her book, \u003cem>Smart on Crime\u003c/em>, written in 2009, the year before she ran for attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health practitioners know that the most beneficial use of resources is to prevent an outbreak, not to treat it,” Harris wrote. “Instead of just reacting to a crime every time it is committed, we have to step back and figure out how to disrupt the routes of infection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit with two flags in the background. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1206642641-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Harris, the district attorney for San Francisco, stands for a portrait in her Hall of Justice office on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris’ “Back on Track” program, considered the most successful implementation of this idea, redirected first-time, non-violent drug offenders into supervised education, job training courses, therapy sessions and life skills classes. It was a modest program but a novel one compared to what most other big city law enforcement officers were doing in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that time period, I think that she was a radical,” Mesloh said. Cities around the country have since emulated the program. When Harris became attorney general, she launched a similar pilot program for Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ focus on prevention produced some of her key accomplishments as district attorney. However, in the context of the 2020 presidential primary, some of those same accomplishments struck many critics on the left as overly punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year after launching Back on Track, Harris introduced an anti-truancy initiative. Based on a statistical correlation that chronic class skippers are more likely to be both perpetrators and victims of homicide, Harris’ office began threatening the parents of persistently absent students with prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has been quick to point out that the “stick” in this carrot-and-stick approach only came out after a series of escalating interventions, including mandatory meetings with school staff and social workers. No one went to jail under the program, though a handful of parents were fined. Within a few years, city truancy rates fell by a \u003ca href=\"https://sfdistrictattorney.org/sfs-anti-truancy-initiative-goes-statewide\">third\u003c/a> and Harris took credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, her office \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100SB1317\">sponsored a bill\u003c/a> to take the program statewide. In the hands of other district attorneys, the statute was used in at least a \u003ca href=\"https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/05/11/truancy-crackdown-lands-oc-parents-in-jail/\">handful\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://hanfordsentinel.com/news/local/truancy-case-not-a-first-for-lemoore-mom/article_53291246-075a-11e1-bc7c-001cc4c002e0.html\">of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/archive/mom-jailed-for-kids-truancy-hanford-mother-sentenced-to-180-days\">cases\u003c/a> to put parents behind bars. Critics have said that the policy has been disproportionately \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e\">wielded against poor parents of color\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://crooked.com/podcast/2020-kamala-harris-on-american-identity-and-secret-recipes/\">interview\u003c/a>, Harris said she regretted any “unintended consequences” of the state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. Harris has (almost) always opposed capital punishment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Her opposition to the death penalty has been one of the most controversial stands in her career, but it’s also an example for those who criticize her lack of consistency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 10, 2004, three months after her inauguration as San Francisco’s new district attorney, 29-year-old police officer Isaac Espinoza was gunned down by a 21-year-old with an AK-47. Three days later, Harris made good on a campaign promise and vowed not to seek the death penalty for the shooter. David Hill was later convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision engendered a predictably fierce backlash from the police union and rebukes from politicians. “This is not only the definition of tragedy,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at Espinoza’s funeral, “it’s the special circumstance called for by the death penalty law.” The assembled officers cheered while Harris remained seated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Harris’ critics say she has wavered in tougher political circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-death-penalty-appeal-20140821-story.html\">federal court judge ruled\u003c/a> that California’s administration of the death penalty was unconstitutional, Harris appealed the decision as state attorney general, arguing that it was “not supported by the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris later \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article74792387.html\">said\u003c/a> that she was obligated to defend capital punishment as the legal representative of the state. Many have pointed out that she was happy not to defend a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that voters passed in Proposition 8 when it was challenged a year earlier. Harris’ response: She was merely reflecting the position of her client, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/diaz/article/Harris-and-the-death-penalty-years-of-13693075.php?psid=e8d2h\">explained\u003c/a> that the judge’s ruling, which held that the long delays between sentencing and execution in California amounted to “cruel and unusual punishment,” could be used to justify speeding up the state’s system of capital punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. Prosecutorial overreach controversies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both as district attorney and as state attorney general, Harris led offices that criminal justice advocates say were overly aggressive in pursuing convictions and lacked transparency in a way that belies Harris’ brand as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/10/kamala-harris-progressive-pioneer-san-francisco-da-column/3334668001/\">progressive prosecutor\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2010, just as Harris was campaigning to become California’s attorney general, San Francisco authorities shut down a police department crime lab in the city’s Hunters Point naval yard. A technician named Deborah Madden was accused of skimming drugs, raising broader questions about the lab’s ability to appropriately handle evidence in criminal cases. (Madden later pleaded guilty).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris immediately dismissed 20 drug cases, but the number eventually grew to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Prosecutor-SFPD-ignored-tech-s-unreliability-3267300.php\">over 1,500 \u003c/a>after documents showed that prosecutors within Harris’ office had known about Madden’s potential unreliability months before the lab was closed but had neglected to tell defense attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A superior court judge later \u003ca href=\"https://legalpad.typepad.com/files/massulloorder.pdf\">excoriated\u003c/a> Harris’ office, writing that the violations infringed on the defendants’ constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Harris formed a unit to handle the sharing of evidence with criminal defense attorneys. She has also said that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/crime-lab-scandal-rocked-kamala-harriss-term-as-san-francisco-district-attorney/2019/03/06/825df094-392b-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html\">did not know\u003c/a> about the problems at the crime lab until after the scandal blew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t done much to assuage the concerns of critics who say Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/kamala-harris-criminal-justice.html\">tended prosecutorial overreach\u003c/a>, which continued once Harris became the state’s attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11836111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11836111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit gestures with her hands while standing at a podium. Two men are behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1836\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-1536x1102.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-2048x1469.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-168960200-1920x1377.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks at a news conference on May 17, 2013, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2015, for example, lawyers for an inmate convicted of murder attempted to have the case thrown out after new evidence suggested that Riverside County prosecutors lied on the stand during the initial trial. Harris’ office, representing the state prison system, resisted, only backing down after footage of one of her \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/2sCUrhgXjH4?t=962\">deputies being eviscerated\u003c/a> by three federal judges went viral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for her since-abandoned presidential campaign said Harris ordered her office to drop the challenge as soon as “she became aware” of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics point to other examples. There was her office’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://observer.com/2015/03/california-prosecutor-falsifies-transcript-of-confession/\">defend\u003c/a> a molestation conviction that local prosecutors had secured with a false confession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about that case, the spokesperson said that it was “long-standing practice” for prosecutors within the Californian Department of Justice to file legal motions without the express approval of the Attorney General, implying that, again, Harris was not aware that her office was making the argument. But in this case, the spokesperson added, state prosecutors believed “the original case…was valid and that the victim in the case deserved justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another example: her office’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/kamala-harris-progressive-prosecutor.html\">refusal\u003c/a> to take over a 2011 Seal Beach mass shooting case after a judge recused the entire Orange County District Attorney’s office for widespread prosecutorial misconduct. Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/kamala-harris-progressive-prosecutor.html\">defended\u003c/a> her decision: “It was being handled at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a track record is to be expected of any prosecutor, said Sally Lieber, who worked with Harris on human trafficking legislation while representing Mountain View in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an adversarial system, and so she was filling a particular role, but I think that she was able to do it in a very sophisticated, smart and responsive way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. As California’s AG: Playing hardball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ biggest accomplishment as California’s attorney general was securing a financial settlement with some of the country’s largest banks accused of illegally foreclosing on homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Harris pulled out of ongoing negotiations between attorneys general from nearly every U.S. state and the five banks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JhiSDgCc-g&feature=youtu.be&t=558\">calling\u003c/a> the proposed deal of $2 billion to $4 billion “crumbs on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10405137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS4476_148166024-e1431097814175.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10405137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS4476_148166024-e1431097814175.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a woman with her hand raised.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1335\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Kamala Harris has won an extension of the state’s deadline to process an initiative that would impose the death penalty for gay sex. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris was not the first attorney general to walk away, but the departure of the country’s largest state seemed to have its intended effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, with California back in the mix, a new deal was struck. This time, California got $20.2 billion in debt reductions and direct financial assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some consumer groups and outside experts were critical of the deal, arguing that the banks would have been forced to write off much of that bad debt eventually. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2012/02/the-servicing-settlement-banks-1-public-0.html\">All sizzle, no steak\u003c/a>,” is how Georgetown law professor Adam Levitin put it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris’ willingness to play hardball did result in a bigger settlement, said Rob McKenna, former Washington attorney general who was part of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s possible for states to overstate the impact they had on the final settlement. The former New York Attorney General (Eric Schneiderman) would sometimes make claims about the settlement and improvements he had obtained,” he said. “But it’s fair to say that Attorney General Harris negotiated and obtained some improvement in the settlement for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>9. Kamala, the campaigner\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris launched her 2020 presidential campaign high on fanfare and hype, only to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/12/03/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race-1230369\">flame out less than a year later\u003c/a> before even making it to Iowa. It was a historically stark underperformance from a candidate that many Democratic insiders believed would be a formidable contender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Harris’ electoral track record has been mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first spin on the campaign trail was a superlative success. In her 2003 race for San Francisco District Attorney, she pushed out a two-term incumbent and won more votes than any other candidate running for a city-wide office that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ first run for statewide office didn’t go quite smoothly. Her race for Attorney General against Republican Steve Cooley wasn’t called until \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-nov-25-la-me-cooley-20101125-story.html\">weeks after Election Day\u003c/a>. Yes, Harris won. But she did so by less than a percentage point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after 18 years in which not a single Republican has won statewide office in California, it’s easy to look back at that nail-biter of an election and see an early sign of Harris’ weakness as a candidate. But at the time, the calculus was a little different. Cooley, a relative moderate, was considered the favorite to win against Harris, a San Francisco liberal. This was 2010, which proved to be a historic landslide election for the GOP. The fact that Harris eked it out despite those headwinds, and as the first woman and person of color to hold that office no less, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2010/12/kamala-harris-democrats-anti-palin-046783\">cemented her status as a rising star\u003c/a> in the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995814\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman wearing face masks walk outside.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490-800x726.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490-1020x925.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1272701490-160x145.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, met with Gov. Gavin Newsom and CalFire officials to review the devastation of the Creek fire in Pineridge on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also rising was Gavin Newsom. The two were San Francisco friends who ran in the same social circles even before their political careers ignited. They share the same political consultants. And when the two most prestigious California elective offices opened up — for governor and U.S. senator — they sidestepped a ballot rivalry when she successfully ran for the Senate, as did he for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-newsom-i-m-not-convinced-we-ve-learned-the-lessons-from-covid-192566853729\">said\u003c/a> — and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-12/as-kamala-harris-rises-gavin-newsoms-short-term-presidential-prospects-fall\">reiterated\u003c/a> — that he would not challenge Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination should Biden withdraw. Although \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/07/gavin-newsom-for-president-assets-liabilities/\">Newsom’s name frequently appears\u003c/a> on lists of hypothetical Biden replacements, she is already on the ticket and is seen by many as the heir-apparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, both are publicly saying now, again and again, that they are backing Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But he used some of Trump’s most incendiary statements to offer a dark contrast of the choice facing Americans in November, comparing it to the eve of World War II when “fascism spread its hate and destruction throughout Europe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they speak of immigrants poisoning American blood and of mass deportations and detention camps, this is the language of destruction — of 1939,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump made those comments about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” during a campaign rally in Iowa last year, later \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-hitler-poison-blood-history-f8c3ff512edd120252596a4743324352\">saying he did not know\u003c/a> that Adolf Hitler had once said something similar. 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However, a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homeless-audit-spending-8c8c8ce6cd9fc6840e180a99fccff588\">state audit\u003c/a> released earlier this year chided his administration for not tracking how effective the state’s homelessness spending — more than $24 billion over five years — has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom defended his decision to sign a law \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homeless-audit-spending-8c8c8ce6cd9fc6840e180a99fccff588\">raising the minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast food workers to $20 an hour, a raise businesses have blamed for increasing customer costs. 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This is true freedom — to invent and make the world a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101906125,news_11983845,news_11989427\"]Newsom chose to deliver a speech for the smartphone era, opting to upload a prerecorded video across his social media channels instead of giving a formal speech before a packed house of state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor, now in his second term, has never been a big fan of formal speeches, given the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-health-business-gavin-newsom-childrens-books-9756e47fc0a193a7fed729753be41ca6\">difficulty his dyslexia\u003c/a> gives him while reading from a teleprompter in live time. 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The influential \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/organizations/-19\">California Medical Association\u003c/a>, representing the state’s physicians, supported the bill. The opposition from Skinner and Wiener represented a significant break from the association’s positions on legislation. 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And the person that did that, there was nothing mentally wrong with them. He was just mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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