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Carole Porter, a childhood friend of Harris’, says that Gopalan raised her daughters with both cultures, but knew that Kamala and Maya would be seen as Black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In America, we’re considered Black women. 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Her work was focused on hormone receptors in breast-cancer development.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1144\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Shyamala Gopalan in her lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she worked as a biomedical scientist. Her work was focused on hormone receptors in breast cancer development. (Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">Gopalan was there for her daughter’s first campaign\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Harris’ first political campaign to become district attorney of San Francisco, her mother was at campaign headquarters every weekend, friends and former staffers of Harris say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sealing envelopes, making calls—she did the work—and making sure all the volunteers had coffee and donuts,” said Matthew Rothschild, a friend of Harris’ who was also close with her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rothschild said Harris inherited her mother’s love of cooking, her laugh and her sense of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she ever felt that you weren’t being treated right or you were down in the dumps, or there was any injustice in your life or anything, she’d be the first person to call and say, ‘Are you okay?’” he said, describing Gopalan. “And then she’d be hard to get off the phone because she wouldn’t want to hang up unless she knew you were okay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris started at just 8% in the polls in the primary for that district attorney race. In her campaign, she would talk about her mother in speeches — telling the audience about how her mother was five feet tall, but it seemed like she was much taller. It’s a line Harris still uses to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s been saying that since 2003,” Rebecca Prozan, Harris’ campaign manager in that race said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM.png\" alt=\"Old photo of Kamala Harris and her mother.\" width=\"600\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM-160x159.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“My mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, had two goals in life: to cure breast cancer and to raise my sister and me. I miss her every day and think of her all the time. I am so proud to be her daughter. Happy Mother’s Day,” wrote Harris on Instagram. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C63qQ-SOIrX/\">A post shared by Vice President Kamala Harris (@vp).\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(@VP Kamala Harris via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">A cancer researcher diagnosed with cancer\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gopalan died of colon cancer in 2009 as Harris was running for attorney general of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, when Harris ran for president the first time, she talked about her own experiences dealing with the health care system when her mother was going through chemotherapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the experience of some doctor talking to you about — have you heard the term anticipatory grief — which is the grief that you experience when someone is still here but it weighs on you. The experience of trying to cook for somebody and hope that whatever I make is something you can hold down or you have an appetite for,” Harris said during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/the-last-word/2019-05-28-msna1236796\">MSNBC town hall\u003c/a> in May 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience of hoping when you’re going through chemotherapy that we can give you clothes that are soft enough because your skin is so sensitive. The experience of trying to make sure that the medication on each of the charts actually matches up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those months while Harris was running a campaign, and her mother was going through treatment, her friends took shifts to keep Gopalan company at the hospital. Rothschild was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would come in and sit with her and we would read the paper or watch the news or talk about Kamala,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even then, Rothschild said Gopalan had a sense of humor. He recalled that one day when he went to the hospital, she had put a sign on the door: “No visitors today. Only the Rothschilds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here she was, she was dying… she had a great sense of humor, even in her pain,” he said. “I can see her laughing, with her shoulders moving up and down, sort of the way it does with Kamala.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">On the trail today, Harris tells her mother’s story\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since becoming vice president, Harris has continued talking about the advice she got from her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One line is the now infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSTqokjNEE\">coconut story\u003c/a>, which inspired a wave of emojis on social media that signify support for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what’s wrong with you, young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” Harris said last year, quoting her mother. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris more often refers back to this line from her mother: Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a line she referenced the night that she and President Biden won the election in 2020: “I may be the first woman to hold this office. But I won’t be the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, HOST: Vice President Kamala Harris was the first woman and person of color to serve as district attorney of San Francisco and the second Black woman ever elected to the Senate. She’s also the first Black and South Asian woman to become vice president. For all the barriers Kamala Harris has broken, she didn’t do it alone. Her mother helped show her the way, as NPR’s White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEEPA SHIVARAM, BYLINE: Kamala Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was 19 years old when she approached her father with a proposal. She wanted to go study to be a scientist, but not in Tamil Nadu, the state where Gopalan’s family lived in India. Shyamala wanted to go study science in a country where she knew no one at the University of California in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: She was part of one of the first waves of Indians to come in relative modern history to the United States, in the ’50s, right? So, anybody of South Asian background, you’ll know that this was early, early, early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: That’s the Vice President talking about her trailblazing mom at an event two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: She arrived in the United States by herself because she had a passion and she had a goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: It was at Berkeley that Shyamala met Donald Harris, an economic student from Jamaica. They were both interested in civil rights. The two were together for about a decade and had two daughters, Kamala and her younger sister, Maya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: Basically, her life was committed to two things — raising her two daughters and ending breast cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: Breast cancer research is what Shyamala worked on. The hours were relentless, and the days were long. Sometimes, Harris and her sister would stay with their downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Regina Shelton, who ran a daycare center. Harris’s childhood friend, Carole Porter, told NPR’s Ari Shapiro she remembers Shyamala from their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAROLE PORTER: She had an air of confidence about her. She had an air of just integrity and strength. When you saw Shyamala, you said hello, Mrs. Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: Shyamala’s research also took her family around the country and around the world. Her first job was helping out in her mother’s research lab. But when it came time to pick her career path, Harris chose the law and of course, politics, and Shyamala was there to support her. Every weekend of Harris’ first campaign in 2003, Shyamala was at campaign headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD: Sealing envelopes, making calls — she did the work and made sure all the volunteers had coffee and doughnuts. She was extraordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: That’s Matthew Rothschild, a friend of Harris’, who was also close with her mother. He says Harris gets from Shyamala her love of cooking, her laugh, and her determination to right any wrongs. Here he is describing Shyamala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ROTHSCHILD: If she ever felt that you weren’t being treated right or you were down in the dumps or there was any injustice in your life or anything, she’d be the first person to call — are you OK? What’s up? And then she would be hard to get off the phone because she wouldn’t want to hang up until she knew you were OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: In 2009, Shyamala died of colon cancer shortly before Harris won her race for attorney general, before she met her husband Doug Emhoff, and before she embarked on her political career to Washington. But Harris keeps her mother’s memory and her advice top of mind. She often quotes her mother in speeches. There’s that now-famous coconut tree story, of course, but there’s also this — don’t let anyone tell you who you are. You tell them who you are, Shyamala would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: She would often say to me, is Kamala, you may be the first to do many things. Make sure you’re not the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: It’s a message Harris shares across the country and one that came up in New Orleans just two weeks before Harris would launch a presidential campaign breaking yet another barrier. She was taking pictures backstage and signed a poster that echoed her mother’s words. It read first but not the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, California, \u003ca href=\"https://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/29/4/a-fortuitous-connection\">Gopalan’s long hours\u003c/a> meant Harris and her younger sister Maya sometimes spent time after school with their downstairs neighbor, Regina Shelton, who ran a daycare center. Harris considers Shelton a second mother. When she was sworn in as vice president, Harris used Shelton’s bible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ father, Donald Harris, immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, but her parents split up when she was young. Carole Porter, a childhood friend of Harris’, says that Gopalan raised her daughters with both cultures, but knew that Kamala and Maya would be seen as Black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In America, we’re considered Black women. And that’s how our mothers raised us because that’s what they knew we would be seen as,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5050973/kamala-harris-friend-talks-about-how-their-childhood-shaped-her\">said Porter\u003c/a>, who also is biracial. “Regina Shelton was really helpful and supportive for Shyamala in doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1600x1525+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F8a%2F7dc15c1d482dbd099fad4bb231ef%2Fshyamala-berkley.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Shyamala Gopalan in her lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she worked as a biomedical scientist. Her work was focused on hormone receptors in breast-cancer development.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1144\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Shyamala Gopalan in her lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she worked as a biomedical scientist. Her work was focused on hormone receptors in breast cancer development. (Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">Gopalan was there for her daughter’s first campaign\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Harris’ first political campaign to become district attorney of San Francisco, her mother was at campaign headquarters every weekend, friends and former staffers of Harris say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sealing envelopes, making calls—she did the work—and making sure all the volunteers had coffee and donuts,” said Matthew Rothschild, a friend of Harris’ who was also close with her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rothschild said Harris inherited her mother’s love of cooking, her laugh and her sense of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she ever felt that you weren’t being treated right or you were down in the dumps, or there was any injustice in your life or anything, she’d be the first person to call and say, ‘Are you okay?’” he said, describing Gopalan. “And then she’d be hard to get off the phone because she wouldn’t want to hang up unless she knew you were okay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris started at just 8% in the polls in the primary for that district attorney race. In her campaign, she would talk about her mother in speeches — telling the audience about how her mother was five feet tall, but it seemed like she was much taller. It’s a line Harris still uses to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s been saying that since 2003,” Rebecca Prozan, Harris’ campaign manager in that race said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM.png\" alt=\"Old photo of Kamala Harris and her mother.\" width=\"600\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM-160x159.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“My mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, had two goals in life: to cure breast cancer and to raise my sister and me. I miss her every day and think of her all the time. I am so proud to be her daughter. Happy Mother’s Day,” wrote Harris on Instagram. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C63qQ-SOIrX/\">A post shared by Vice President Kamala Harris (@vp).\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(@VP Kamala Harris via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">A cancer researcher diagnosed with cancer\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gopalan died of colon cancer in 2009 as Harris was running for attorney general of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, when Harris ran for president the first time, she talked about her own experiences dealing with the health care system when her mother was going through chemotherapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the experience of some doctor talking to you about — have you heard the term anticipatory grief — which is the grief that you experience when someone is still here but it weighs on you. The experience of trying to cook for somebody and hope that whatever I make is something you can hold down or you have an appetite for,” Harris said during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/the-last-word/2019-05-28-msna1236796\">MSNBC town hall\u003c/a> in May 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience of hoping when you’re going through chemotherapy that we can give you clothes that are soft enough because your skin is so sensitive. The experience of trying to make sure that the medication on each of the charts actually matches up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those months while Harris was running a campaign, and her mother was going through treatment, her friends took shifts to keep Gopalan company at the hospital. Rothschild was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would come in and sit with her and we would read the paper or watch the news or talk about Kamala,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even then, Rothschild said Gopalan had a sense of humor. He recalled that one day when he went to the hospital, she had put a sign on the door: “No visitors today. Only the Rothschilds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here she was, she was dying… she had a great sense of humor, even in her pain,” he said. “I can see her laughing, with her shoulders moving up and down, sort of the way it does with Kamala.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">On the trail today, Harris tells her mother’s story\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since becoming vice president, Harris has continued talking about the advice she got from her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One line is the now infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSTqokjNEE\">coconut story\u003c/a>, which inspired a wave of emojis on social media that signify support for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what’s wrong with you, young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” Harris said last year, quoting her mother. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris more often refers back to this line from her mother: Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a line she referenced the night that she and President Biden won the election in 2020: “I may be the first woman to hold this office. But I won’t be the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, HOST: Vice President Kamala Harris was the first woman and person of color to serve as district attorney of San Francisco and the second Black woman ever elected to the Senate. She’s also the first Black and South Asian woman to become vice president. For all the barriers Kamala Harris has broken, she didn’t do it alone. Her mother helped show her the way, as NPR’s White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEEPA SHIVARAM, BYLINE: Kamala Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was 19 years old when she approached her father with a proposal. She wanted to go study to be a scientist, but not in Tamil Nadu, the state where Gopalan’s family lived in India. Shyamala wanted to go study science in a country where she knew no one at the University of California in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: She was part of one of the first waves of Indians to come in relative modern history to the United States, in the ’50s, right? So, anybody of South Asian background, you’ll know that this was early, early, early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: That’s the Vice President talking about her trailblazing mom at an event two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: She arrived in the United States by herself because she had a passion and she had a goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: It was at Berkeley that Shyamala met Donald Harris, an economic student from Jamaica. They were both interested in civil rights. The two were together for about a decade and had two daughters, Kamala and her younger sister, Maya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: Basically, her life was committed to two things — raising her two daughters and ending breast cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: Breast cancer research is what Shyamala worked on. The hours were relentless, and the days were long. Sometimes, Harris and her sister would stay with their downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Regina Shelton, who ran a daycare center. Harris’s childhood friend, Carole Porter, told NPR’s Ari Shapiro she remembers Shyamala from their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAROLE PORTER: She had an air of confidence about her. She had an air of just integrity and strength. When you saw Shyamala, you said hello, Mrs. Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: Shyamala’s research also took her family around the country and around the world. Her first job was helping out in her mother’s research lab. But when it came time to pick her career path, Harris chose the law and of course, politics, and Shyamala was there to support her. Every weekend of Harris’ first campaign in 2003, Shyamala was at campaign headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD: Sealing envelopes, making calls — she did the work and made sure all the volunteers had coffee and doughnuts. She was extraordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: That’s Matthew Rothschild, a friend of Harris’, who was also close with her mother. He says Harris gets from Shyamala her love of cooking, her laugh, and her determination to right any wrongs. Here he is describing Shyamala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ROTHSCHILD: If she ever felt that you weren’t being treated right or you were down in the dumps or there was any injustice in your life or anything, she’d be the first person to call — are you OK? What’s up? And then she would be hard to get off the phone because she wouldn’t want to hang up until she knew you were OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: In 2009, Shyamala died of colon cancer shortly before Harris won her race for attorney general, before she met her husband Doug Emhoff, and before she embarked on her political career to Washington. But Harris keeps her mother’s memory and her advice top of mind. She often quotes her mother in speeches. 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"content": "\u003cp>On July 21, President Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 presidential election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democratic nominee. And soon after, reports began to circulate that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris may shift away\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/14/1244683830/politics-chat-biden-vows-to-continue-support-for-israel-aid-package-in-the-works\">her predecessor’s long-standing support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crisis in Gaza came into even sharper focus last week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u003c/a> on Thursday during his visit to Washington, D.C., following \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-kamala-harris-biden-trump-support-gaza-rcna162992\">her decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress\u003c/a>. Harris said that while she had an “unwavering commitment to Israel,” which she said “has a right to defend itself,” she nonetheless urged a cease-fire deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” Harris said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">her official remarks after the meeting with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. “We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent.” It was a marked contrast from Biden’s previous statements around Gazans, which many criticized for his seeming \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/12/biden-empathy-lacking-palestinians/\">lack of empathy for Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian activists say they are now watching Harris’ campaign cautiously — and that they’re seeing this election season as a key moment to set the political priorities of the next few years. For these advocates, “Palestine has never been a single issue,” said Samer Araabi, San Francisco resident and member of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC). “It’s the perspective of how a government should function, vis-a-vis war and militarism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our moment to articulate a vision for a better version of this country,” Araabi said. “A version of this country that actually upholds the values that it espouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Vallejo resident Halimah Houston said that while they saw Harris as “more competent than both Joe Biden and Trump to do the job,” they “hope she recognizes we need a cease-fire since she’ll have more power as president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Miller, the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said Harris and the Democratic Party now have “an opportunity” to rebuild with their voting base — and engage younger voters like Houston too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Miller, Biden “has essentially broken apart the broad progressive coalition that helped him defeat Donald Trump in 2020” — something she attributes in part “to his unquestioning support for the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Netanyahu’s visit met with absences — and protests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israeli forces have killed over 38,000, injured over 88,000 and displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. Now in its 10th month, the siege of Gaza began after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 of the hostages have been released or rescued. A network of human rights clinics in the United States — which includes institutions like Cornell and Yale universities — found in a May report that Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/palestine\">“constitute breaches of the international law prohibitions on the commission of genocide.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Harris, dozens of members of Congress were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997141/as-netanyahu-speaks-to-congress-several-bay-area-lawmakers-are-skipping-out\">absent from Netanyahu’s Wednesday address\u003c/a>. In fact, according to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1816173408918421683\">Axios\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, 100 of 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats were absent from Netanyahu’s address — a possible signal of change in the party’s reception to Israel, Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This included at least six Bay Area representatives, like former \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/speakerpelosi/status/1816208313572364356?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> and Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, who said in a statement that “the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has taken countless lives, including the lives of women and children, and destroyed Palestinian homes and communities,” and that she would not “condone” Netanyahu’s “deeply divisive policies [that] put the peace and security of both Israelis and Palestinians at risk” with her presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the press after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the vice president’s ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu was greeted with applause and cheers by many pro-Israel activists — some of whom are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-netanyahu-speech-1929811\">elected representatives\u003c/a>. Watching parts of Netanyahu’s visit from the Bay Area, Palestinian Santa Clara resident Ken Afi said the welcome that the Israeli PM received showed him that “these congressmen don’t stand for us. They don’t stand for the people. It’s just about trading power between them and suppressing the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the United States and our Congress and our executive branch had a shred of moral clarity, they would be putting this man behind bars as soon as he landed his flight,” Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC’s Araabi was one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-gaza-war-congress-joint-session-9a7885972989b2397b49e5b971ffe0e0\">thousands of protesters who took to the streets of D.C. to protest the Israeli PM’s visit\u003c/a> and attempt to block his passage to Congress. Protesters were reported to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">pepper sprayed, and relatives of the remaining \u003c/a>Israeli hostages, who wore shirts \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">demanding a cease-fire deal to free their loved ones, were also detained by police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/rashida-tlaib-netanyahu-israel-gaza\">some of her fellow Democrats\u003c/a>, Harris did not say anything publicly about Netanyahu’s presence at Congress, either before or in her remarks after their meeting. And on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/vp/status/1816490945501708660?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Harris condemned some of the protesters\u003c/a>, specifically denouncing “pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric,” the burning of the U.S. flag and “despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lydiakiesling/status/1816517309835673949?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">For some\u003c/a>, this has \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/soulkhan/status/1816515410516377895?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">soured\u003c/a> the optimism they felt around Harris and Gaza, saying Harris’ remarks were Islamophobic for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93DdMwP4WP/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==\">equating these protesters with terrorists\u003c/a> and for conflating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionist activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris and Israel\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress was, for many onlookers, the greatest indication yet that she might split from Biden’s support for Israel if she were to become the official Democratic nominee. The \u003cem>Wall Street Journal \u003c/em>also reported that current and former officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris is not likely to keep key Biden advisers and staff, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C94imq-smNp/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">An anonymous Israeli official was reported as reacting negatively\u003c/a> to Harris’ speech after the Netanyahu meeting — which centered on the suffering of Palestinians — saying it could lead to “regression in the [cease-fire] talks.” Miller of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a> — which describes itself as a “multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis by transforming U.S. policy” — said that while she “was glad to see that [Harris] was more stern in her wording around her meeting with Netanyahu,” she insisted that “we cannot and will not just accept rhetoric.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/362782/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-palestine-biden-netanyahu\">news outlets and commentators\u003c/a> have noted Harris has historically appeared \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/07/21/biden-quit-harris-president-gaza/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theintercept\">more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians\u003c/a> — as well as to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-interview-profile-excerpt/\">pro-Palestinian activists protesting in the United States on their behalf\u003c/a>. In March, she described the conditions in Gaza as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/03/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-commemorating-the-59th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-selma-al/\">humanitarian catastrophe\u003c/a>” and called for a temporary cease-fire. In the same speech, Harris said she was also more willing to be stricter with Israel’s blockade of aid being delivered to Gaza — something Biden had shied away from. Her 25-year-old stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, whose father, Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, is Jewish — has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-ella-emhoff-the-achingly-hip-knitwear-queen-in-line-to-be-the-first-step-daughter\">publicly raised money for Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in June, pro-Palestinian activists protested \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-05/vp-kamala-harris-greeted-by-over-a-hundred-protesters-outside-fundraiser-in-san-francisco\">Harris’ official appearance in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Araabi said activists like him are observing Harris’ burgeoning campaign “cautiously,” especially for her pick of vice president. Names like \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/07/24/josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp-short-list\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u003c/a> have been circulated — and critics are worried about \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/184151/one-vice-president-ruin-democratic-unity-josh-shapiro\">Shapiro’s hostile attitudes\u003c/a> toward pro-Palestinian college campus protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of disillusionment with the Biden-Harris administration generally,” Araabi said, adding that he thinks Harris is now “trying to chart a different course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said he was ultimately “cautiously optimistic” that elected representatives will be more supportive of Palestinian self-determination and rights — that Americans are recognizing Palestinian rights as part of the wider progressive movement and anti-racism advocacy — but asked “how much of that shift is genuine and how much of it is campaign rhetoric?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that she’s not going to Netanyahu’s Congress address is a good sign,” Araabi said. “The fact that she’s meeting with him is not a good sign. We do not need to be meeting with war criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Ellen Brotsky, a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, said she hoped Harris saw that many Americans are waiting for her to take “concrete actions to put pressure on Israel to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s an important part of her constituency,” said Brotsky, who has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for a decade. “Words are helpful, but action is what is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Gaza and Biden’s legacy \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden’s ongoing financial support of Israel has drawn continued criticism in an election year, setting up a difficult potential inheritance for Harris and the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, the bombardment of Gaza has sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">an outpouring of protests\u003c/a> in the streets — and in the last month, on college campuses — demanding a cease-fire in the Bay Area and across the country. Protesters have repeatedly called on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">the United States to cut its sizable aid to Israel’s military\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3754718/supplemental-bill-becomes-law-provides-billions-in-aid-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan/\">In April\u003c/a> alone, the United States approved $14.1 billion for Israel’s military. In contrast, around $1 billion was given to support humanitarian aid services in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars, sending weapons to Israel, and that money has much better uses here at home to actually fix our aging infrastructure and provide support for people who need it,” Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and demand an end to the Biden administration’s support of Israel while protesting outside of a campaign fundraiser featuring Vice President Kamala Harris at a home in Oakland, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Biden stated he has “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/29/nx-s1-4983786/where-is-the-biden-administrations-red-line-when-it-comes-palestinian-deaths-in-gaza\">red lines’\u003c/a>” when it comes to Palestinian deaths and his support of Israel, his views came across as \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bidens-increasingly-contradictory-israel-policy\">contradictory\u003c/a> as Israeli forces have attacked refugee camps, aid workers and hospitals, exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">the humanitarian crisis\u003c/a> that includes sickness and starvation. For the activists, Biden’s legacy is forever intertwined with the suffering in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going to go down in our community known as nothing but a butcher,” Santa Clara’s Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish Voice for Peace Action’s Miller said Biden made the United States government “directly complicit” in the siege of Gaza. ”I’m incredibly glad that he is not running for reelection because he has shown himself on this issue to be absolutely — both morally and politically — on the wrong side,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#vote-ceasefire-group-urges-california-voters-to-signal-gaza-support-through-ballot\">Voter opposition to the war in Gaza has already made itself known \u003c/a>to Democrats in 2024 during the primaries. In swing state Michigan — home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979450/how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a> were cast. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-divide-gaza-war-campus-protests-hurting-biden-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-05-16/\">May poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos\u003c/a> found that “44% of Democratic registered voters responding to the May 7–14 poll said they disapprove of Biden’s handling of the crisis. Democrats who disapproved of his response were less likely to say they would vote for Biden.” According to a recent Gallup poll, only \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647633/biden-approval-rating-hit-new-low-exit-race.aspx\">58% of Americans approved of his presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said that during the primary process, he’d heard from many people “who are self-proclaimed Democrats who said that they would never, ever, ever vote for Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the question now is, can Harris bring those people back in?” he said. “I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking ahead to November\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the Washington, D.C., protest, Araabi said it was “really incredible to see all those people together, all saying very clearly, ‘We won’t stand for this anymore. This can’t be done in our name,’” he said. “This is the thing that I’m sure every fight for social justice has experienced, in the same way that Congress wouldn’t let go of its support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">apartheid South Africa\u003c/a> until it absolutely was forced to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-Hp4uM1uU\">Hundreds of Jewish American activists\u003c/a> were at the Netanyahu protest, which, according to Brotsky, made the world see “that Israel is not committing genocide in the name of Jews. That Jewish safety doesn’t come from oppressing Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who is Palestinian American, told \u003cem>NPR\u003c/em> last week that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">if she had “tried to go to a mosque or Arab community event and urged them to vote for Joe Biden, I would never be invited back.\u003c/a> The anger was so deep. And the hurt was so deep — even for me.” Nonetheless, Romman said she believed constituents would now be open to hearing Harris make her own case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists want Harris to take a bolder stance on Gaza. Some, like Santa Clara’s Afi, say they’re considering third-party options like Jill Stein. Eighteen\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">-year-old Aniya Butler\u003c/a> told KQED last week they would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">not be voting for Harris\u003c/a> due to the absence of a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an African American young woman, it’s amazing to think about the possibility of someone who looks like me being in that state of power,” Butler said. “But what is that power even rooted in? And what is that power being used for? And in terms of right now, it’s rooted in inequity, violence and oppression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky said that whoever the Democratic presidential candidate is, Jewish Voice for Peace Action activists will continue to push for an arms embargo on Israel and a permanent cease-fire. The group also supports other pro-cease-fire candidates like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/our-2024-candidates/\">Cori Bush of St. Louis\u003c/a> and plans to march at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed,” Brotsky said. “[Cease-fire and arms embargo] was a demand of Biden in the Democratic Party. It’s still a demand of whoever the presidential nominee is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activists are nonetheless worried that amid a media storm around the U.S. 2024 election, the death toll in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinians will be forgotten. Miller said she also fears that the government will wait until election season is over to take any action on Gaza and that “Palestinians cannot wait until November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford to slip back into a sense of normalcy,” Afi said. “That’s kind of a scary concept to think the average American might just forget that people are being killed by bombs made in this country and shipped for free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to stay focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Ezra David Romero contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On July 21, President Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 presidential election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democratic nominee. And soon after, reports began to circulate that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris may shift away\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/14/1244683830/politics-chat-biden-vows-to-continue-support-for-israel-aid-package-in-the-works\">her predecessor’s long-standing support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crisis in Gaza came into even sharper focus last week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u003c/a> on Thursday during his visit to Washington, D.C., following \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-kamala-harris-biden-trump-support-gaza-rcna162992\">her decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress\u003c/a>. Harris said that while she had an “unwavering commitment to Israel,” which she said “has a right to defend itself,” she nonetheless urged a cease-fire deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” Harris said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">her official remarks after the meeting with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. “We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent.” It was a marked contrast from Biden’s previous statements around Gazans, which many criticized for his seeming \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/12/biden-empathy-lacking-palestinians/\">lack of empathy for Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian activists say they are now watching Harris’ campaign cautiously — and that they’re seeing this election season as a key moment to set the political priorities of the next few years. For these advocates, “Palestine has never been a single issue,” said Samer Araabi, San Francisco resident and member of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC). “It’s the perspective of how a government should function, vis-a-vis war and militarism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our moment to articulate a vision for a better version of this country,” Araabi said. “A version of this country that actually upholds the values that it espouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Vallejo resident Halimah Houston said that while they saw Harris as “more competent than both Joe Biden and Trump to do the job,” they “hope she recognizes we need a cease-fire since she’ll have more power as president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Miller, the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said Harris and the Democratic Party now have “an opportunity” to rebuild with their voting base — and engage younger voters like Houston too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Miller, Biden “has essentially broken apart the broad progressive coalition that helped him defeat Donald Trump in 2020” — something she attributes in part “to his unquestioning support for the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Netanyahu’s visit met with absences — and protests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israeli forces have killed over 38,000, injured over 88,000 and displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. Now in its 10th month, the siege of Gaza began after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 of the hostages have been released or rescued. A network of human rights clinics in the United States — which includes institutions like Cornell and Yale universities — found in a May report that Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/palestine\">“constitute breaches of the international law prohibitions on the commission of genocide.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Harris, dozens of members of Congress were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997141/as-netanyahu-speaks-to-congress-several-bay-area-lawmakers-are-skipping-out\">absent from Netanyahu’s Wednesday address\u003c/a>. In fact, according to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1816173408918421683\">Axios\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, 100 of 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats were absent from Netanyahu’s address — a possible signal of change in the party’s reception to Israel, Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This included at least six Bay Area representatives, like former \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/speakerpelosi/status/1816208313572364356?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> and Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, who said in a statement that “the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has taken countless lives, including the lives of women and children, and destroyed Palestinian homes and communities,” and that she would not “condone” Netanyahu’s “deeply divisive policies [that] put the peace and security of both Israelis and Palestinians at risk” with her presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the press after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the vice president’s ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu was greeted with applause and cheers by many pro-Israel activists — some of whom are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-netanyahu-speech-1929811\">elected representatives\u003c/a>. Watching parts of Netanyahu’s visit from the Bay Area, Palestinian Santa Clara resident Ken Afi said the welcome that the Israeli PM received showed him that “these congressmen don’t stand for us. They don’t stand for the people. It’s just about trading power between them and suppressing the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the United States and our Congress and our executive branch had a shred of moral clarity, they would be putting this man behind bars as soon as he landed his flight,” Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC’s Araabi was one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-gaza-war-congress-joint-session-9a7885972989b2397b49e5b971ffe0e0\">thousands of protesters who took to the streets of D.C. to protest the Israeli PM’s visit\u003c/a> and attempt to block his passage to Congress. Protesters were reported to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">pepper sprayed, and relatives of the remaining \u003c/a>Israeli hostages, who wore shirts \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">demanding a cease-fire deal to free their loved ones, were also detained by police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/rashida-tlaib-netanyahu-israel-gaza\">some of her fellow Democrats\u003c/a>, Harris did not say anything publicly about Netanyahu’s presence at Congress, either before or in her remarks after their meeting. And on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/vp/status/1816490945501708660?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Harris condemned some of the protesters\u003c/a>, specifically denouncing “pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric,” the burning of the U.S. flag and “despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lydiakiesling/status/1816517309835673949?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">For some\u003c/a>, this has \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/soulkhan/status/1816515410516377895?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">soured\u003c/a> the optimism they felt around Harris and Gaza, saying Harris’ remarks were Islamophobic for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93DdMwP4WP/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==\">equating these protesters with terrorists\u003c/a> and for conflating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionist activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris and Israel\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress was, for many onlookers, the greatest indication yet that she might split from Biden’s support for Israel if she were to become the official Democratic nominee. The \u003cem>Wall Street Journal \u003c/em>also reported that current and former officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris is not likely to keep key Biden advisers and staff, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C94imq-smNp/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">An anonymous Israeli official was reported as reacting negatively\u003c/a> to Harris’ speech after the Netanyahu meeting — which centered on the suffering of Palestinians — saying it could lead to “regression in the [cease-fire] talks.” Miller of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a> — which describes itself as a “multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis by transforming U.S. policy” — said that while she “was glad to see that [Harris] was more stern in her wording around her meeting with Netanyahu,” she insisted that “we cannot and will not just accept rhetoric.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/362782/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-palestine-biden-netanyahu\">news outlets and commentators\u003c/a> have noted Harris has historically appeared \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/07/21/biden-quit-harris-president-gaza/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theintercept\">more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians\u003c/a> — as well as to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-interview-profile-excerpt/\">pro-Palestinian activists protesting in the United States on their behalf\u003c/a>. In March, she described the conditions in Gaza as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/03/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-commemorating-the-59th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-selma-al/\">humanitarian catastrophe\u003c/a>” and called for a temporary cease-fire. In the same speech, Harris said she was also more willing to be stricter with Israel’s blockade of aid being delivered to Gaza — something Biden had shied away from. Her 25-year-old stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, whose father, Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, is Jewish — has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-ella-emhoff-the-achingly-hip-knitwear-queen-in-line-to-be-the-first-step-daughter\">publicly raised money for Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in June, pro-Palestinian activists protested \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-05/vp-kamala-harris-greeted-by-over-a-hundred-protesters-outside-fundraiser-in-san-francisco\">Harris’ official appearance in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Araabi said activists like him are observing Harris’ burgeoning campaign “cautiously,” especially for her pick of vice president. Names like \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/07/24/josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp-short-list\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u003c/a> have been circulated — and critics are worried about \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/184151/one-vice-president-ruin-democratic-unity-josh-shapiro\">Shapiro’s hostile attitudes\u003c/a> toward pro-Palestinian college campus protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of disillusionment with the Biden-Harris administration generally,” Araabi said, adding that he thinks Harris is now “trying to chart a different course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said he was ultimately “cautiously optimistic” that elected representatives will be more supportive of Palestinian self-determination and rights — that Americans are recognizing Palestinian rights as part of the wider progressive movement and anti-racism advocacy — but asked “how much of that shift is genuine and how much of it is campaign rhetoric?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that she’s not going to Netanyahu’s Congress address is a good sign,” Araabi said. “The fact that she’s meeting with him is not a good sign. We do not need to be meeting with war criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Ellen Brotsky, a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, said she hoped Harris saw that many Americans are waiting for her to take “concrete actions to put pressure on Israel to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s an important part of her constituency,” said Brotsky, who has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for a decade. “Words are helpful, but action is what is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Gaza and Biden’s legacy \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden’s ongoing financial support of Israel has drawn continued criticism in an election year, setting up a difficult potential inheritance for Harris and the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, the bombardment of Gaza has sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">an outpouring of protests\u003c/a> in the streets — and in the last month, on college campuses — demanding a cease-fire in the Bay Area and across the country. Protesters have repeatedly called on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">the United States to cut its sizable aid to Israel’s military\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3754718/supplemental-bill-becomes-law-provides-billions-in-aid-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan/\">In April\u003c/a> alone, the United States approved $14.1 billion for Israel’s military. In contrast, around $1 billion was given to support humanitarian aid services in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars, sending weapons to Israel, and that money has much better uses here at home to actually fix our aging infrastructure and provide support for people who need it,” Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and demand an end to the Biden administration’s support of Israel while protesting outside of a campaign fundraiser featuring Vice President Kamala Harris at a home in Oakland, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Biden stated he has “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/29/nx-s1-4983786/where-is-the-biden-administrations-red-line-when-it-comes-palestinian-deaths-in-gaza\">red lines’\u003c/a>” when it comes to Palestinian deaths and his support of Israel, his views came across as \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bidens-increasingly-contradictory-israel-policy\">contradictory\u003c/a> as Israeli forces have attacked refugee camps, aid workers and hospitals, exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">the humanitarian crisis\u003c/a> that includes sickness and starvation. For the activists, Biden’s legacy is forever intertwined with the suffering in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going to go down in our community known as nothing but a butcher,” Santa Clara’s Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish Voice for Peace Action’s Miller said Biden made the United States government “directly complicit” in the siege of Gaza. ”I’m incredibly glad that he is not running for reelection because he has shown himself on this issue to be absolutely — both morally and politically — on the wrong side,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#vote-ceasefire-group-urges-california-voters-to-signal-gaza-support-through-ballot\">Voter opposition to the war in Gaza has already made itself known \u003c/a>to Democrats in 2024 during the primaries. In swing state Michigan — home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979450/how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a> were cast. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-divide-gaza-war-campus-protests-hurting-biden-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-05-16/\">May poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos\u003c/a> found that “44% of Democratic registered voters responding to the May 7–14 poll said they disapprove of Biden’s handling of the crisis. Democrats who disapproved of his response were less likely to say they would vote for Biden.” According to a recent Gallup poll, only \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647633/biden-approval-rating-hit-new-low-exit-race.aspx\">58% of Americans approved of his presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said that during the primary process, he’d heard from many people “who are self-proclaimed Democrats who said that they would never, ever, ever vote for Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the question now is, can Harris bring those people back in?” he said. “I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking ahead to November\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the Washington, D.C., protest, Araabi said it was “really incredible to see all those people together, all saying very clearly, ‘We won’t stand for this anymore. This can’t be done in our name,’” he said. “This is the thing that I’m sure every fight for social justice has experienced, in the same way that Congress wouldn’t let go of its support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">apartheid South Africa\u003c/a> until it absolutely was forced to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-Hp4uM1uU\">Hundreds of Jewish American activists\u003c/a> were at the Netanyahu protest, which, according to Brotsky, made the world see “that Israel is not committing genocide in the name of Jews. That Jewish safety doesn’t come from oppressing Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who is Palestinian American, told \u003cem>NPR\u003c/em> last week that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">if she had “tried to go to a mosque or Arab community event and urged them to vote for Joe Biden, I would never be invited back.\u003c/a> The anger was so deep. And the hurt was so deep — even for me.” Nonetheless, Romman said she believed constituents would now be open to hearing Harris make her own case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists want Harris to take a bolder stance on Gaza. Some, like Santa Clara’s Afi, say they’re considering third-party options like Jill Stein. Eighteen\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">-year-old Aniya Butler\u003c/a> told KQED last week they would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">not be voting for Harris\u003c/a> due to the absence of a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an African American young woman, it’s amazing to think about the possibility of someone who looks like me being in that state of power,” Butler said. “But what is that power even rooted in? And what is that power being used for? And in terms of right now, it’s rooted in inequity, violence and oppression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky said that whoever the Democratic presidential candidate is, Jewish Voice for Peace Action activists will continue to push for an arms embargo on Israel and a permanent cease-fire. The group also supports other pro-cease-fire candidates like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/our-2024-candidates/\">Cori Bush of St. Louis\u003c/a> and plans to march at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed,” Brotsky said. “[Cease-fire and arms embargo] was a demand of Biden in the Democratic Party. It’s still a demand of whoever the presidential nominee is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activists are nonetheless worried that amid a media storm around the U.S. 2024 election, the death toll in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinians will be forgotten. Miller said she also fears that the government will wait until election season is over to take any action on Gaza and that “Palestinians cannot wait until November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford to slip back into a sense of normalcy,” Afi said. “That’s kind of a scary concept to think the average American might just forget that people are being killed by bombs made in this country and shipped for free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to stay focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Ezra David Romero contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12690/democrats-rally-behind-vice-president-harris\">said to campaign staffers\u003c/a> in Wilmington, Del., on the day after Biden endorsed her to take his place at the top of the Democratic ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds — predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. 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She formally launched her bid on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, referencing Shirley Chisholm, the first Black person and woman to seek a major party’s presidential nod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, with Democrats in despair over \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump\">Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> presidency, the first-term California senator appeared to be an ideal cure. The daughter of an Indian mother and a Black Jamaican father, Harris evoked comparisons to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/barack-obama\">Barack Obama\u003c/a>, whose powerful biography and soaring rhetoric galvanized Democrats more than a decade earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the early promise of Harris’ campaign met a more complicated reality as she spent the next 10 months struggling to break through a crowded field of candidates and churning through staff and cash. She ultimately withdrew from the race weeks before the Iowa caucuses, a disappointment mitigated only when nominee Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/biden-picks-kamala-harris-as-running-mate-first-black-woman-905fa6cee7441c8b0cd5363d578278ce\">selected her as his running mate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-drops-out-2024-election-ddffde72838370032bdcff946cfc2ce6\">ended his reelection bid\u003c/a>, Democrats say Harris has grown into a more savvy candidate who will avoid repeating mistakes from her first campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there’s been no roadmap for Kamala Harris,” said Donna Brazile, a former Democratic National Committee chair and one of the prominent Black Democrats who urged Biden to pick Harris in 2020. “But she’s really found her voice and has been going non-stop since the 2022 midterm campaign, especially. 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Bernie Sanders led the Democrats’ progressive wing, with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren offering his biggest challenge. Biden, then the 76-year-old former vice president, had yet to announce but was expected to anchor the more centrist wing, and he stood strong among Black voters who figured so prominently in the first-in-the-South primary in South Carolina and many Super Tuesday states that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris came to the campaign having hit her stride during Senate Judiciary Committee sessions, especially when questioning Trump’s judicial nominees. She’d also signed on as a co-sponsor to Sanders’ push for a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ec36c409be344f23854ae4497ad87ee5\">“Medicare for All”\u003c/a> national health insurance system. She was a regular on cable news and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some younger progressives distrusted her record as a prosecutor. “Kamala is a cop” became a tagline on social media. That contingent, however vocal, was not viewed as large enough to sway a national primary contest — and its opposition actually affirmed one of Harris’ arguments: “My entire career has been focused on keeping people safe,” she told ABC News. “It is probably one of the things that motivates me more than anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her full potential, Harris’ aides reasoned, she could appeal to nearly all branches of the party. It was, more or less, a campaign intended to chip away and eventually overtake Biden’s coalition, presuming he joined the race, bolstered with a leftward reach that Biden, the white male veteran of the Washington establishment, could never manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">‘That little girl was me’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s an art in presidential politics to entice voters in ways that allow them to see what they want to see: “Hope and Change” from Obama, “Make America Great Again” from Trump. The risk in aiming everywhere, though, is that a candidate may not stick anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ early appearances in Iowa, first up in the nominating calendar, and South Carolina were dominated by working-age women, a key Democratic demographic. In South Carolina, far more diverse than overwhelmingly white Iowa, her audiences were racially diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the overall field widened, Harris faded from de facto front-runner status. She became one of many candidates vying for money, media attention and votes — especially once Biden announced in the spring. She raised $12 million in the first quarter of 2019, a solid sum but not one that reflected the electricity of her opening salvo in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That thing was a free-for-all,” said Boyd Brown, a former Democratic National Committee member who backed former Texas Rep. 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She personalized her broadside, telling of a young minority student who attended an integrated school only because of federal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That little girl was me,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dbf7aa798cf54646a7b8c705c6af27e8\">she told Biden\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ campaign immediately marketed campaign merchandise with the quote, drawing some criticism that the line was canned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">A sputtering finish\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The debate gave Harris her best fundraising surge since her launch. But the good news was short-lived. She clarified in succeeding days that she did not necessarily support federally mandated busing — the position Biden held as a young U.S. senator. And even with the boost, her second-quarter fundraising haul was only $12 million, well behind Biden, Sanders and Buttigieg, who doubled her mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer, Harris unveiled her health care plan, proposing to add a Medicare-like public option to existing private health insurance exchanges. It was a shift that abandoned her single-payer position in the Senate and highlighted her difficulty finding a core message. In debates, rivals attacked her record as a prosecutor, especially her aggressiveness against drug offenders. By the fall, her speaking time on stage was middle of the pack, making it difficult to change the dynamics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden was faltering in Iowa and New Hampshire. However, Biden’s support among Black voters remained steady, and Harris could not afford television ads. Harris’ ideal scenario — an impressive start in Iowa, then moving ahead of Biden in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday — was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joe Biden has always been our guy,” said Antjuan Seawright, a prominent Black Democratic consultant in South Carolina, explaining that it was never a rejection of Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-ca-state-wire-politics-election-2020-kamala-harris-9f15f9bae46c54de8d88ad3e8388e4be\">She ended her campaign\u003c/a> on Dec. 3, 2019, saying, “In good faith, I can’t tell you … that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Still enough for the No. 2 spot — and now No. 1\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The harshest assessment is that Harris ran a bad campaign that reflected the principal — a warning about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harris-election-president-wisconsin-democrats-012c6474b8b23960d2cf616e92989a4b\">her 2024 prospects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s just a horrible candidate who could not communicate a rationale for her candidacy,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who mused that Biden, at 81 years old, may have been quicker to set aside his own reelection ambitions if he had more confidence in his vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Democrats are more charitable with their hindsight. 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She ultimately withdrew from the race weeks before the Iowa caucuses, a disappointment mitigated only when nominee Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/biden-picks-kamala-harris-as-running-mate-first-black-woman-905fa6cee7441c8b0cd5363d578278ce\">selected her as his running mate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-drops-out-2024-election-ddffde72838370032bdcff946cfc2ce6\">ended his reelection bid\u003c/a>, Democrats say Harris has grown into a more savvy candidate who will avoid repeating mistakes from her first campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there’s been no roadmap for Kamala Harris,” said Donna Brazile, a former Democratic National Committee chair and one of the prominent Black Democrats who urged Biden to pick Harris in 2020. “But she’s really found her voice and has been going non-stop since the 2022 midterm campaign, especially. 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Bernie Sanders led the Democrats’ progressive wing, with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren offering his biggest challenge. Biden, then the 76-year-old former vice president, had yet to announce but was expected to anchor the more centrist wing, and he stood strong among Black voters who figured so prominently in the first-in-the-South primary in South Carolina and many Super Tuesday states that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris came to the campaign having hit her stride during Senate Judiciary Committee sessions, especially when questioning Trump’s judicial nominees. She’d also signed on as a co-sponsor to Sanders’ push for a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ec36c409be344f23854ae4497ad87ee5\">“Medicare for All”\u003c/a> national health insurance system. She was a regular on cable news and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some younger progressives distrusted her record as a prosecutor. “Kamala is a cop” became a tagline on social media. That contingent, however vocal, was not viewed as large enough to sway a national primary contest — and its opposition actually affirmed one of Harris’ arguments: “My entire career has been focused on keeping people safe,” she told ABC News. “It is probably one of the things that motivates me more than anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her full potential, Harris’ aides reasoned, she could appeal to nearly all branches of the party. It was, more or less, a campaign intended to chip away and eventually overtake Biden’s coalition, presuming he joined the race, bolstered with a leftward reach that Biden, the white male veteran of the Washington establishment, could never manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">‘That little girl was me’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s an art in presidential politics to entice voters in ways that allow them to see what they want to see: “Hope and Change” from Obama, “Make America Great Again” from Trump. The risk in aiming everywhere, though, is that a candidate may not stick anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ early appearances in Iowa, first up in the nominating calendar, and South Carolina were dominated by working-age women, a key Democratic demographic. In South Carolina, far more diverse than overwhelmingly white Iowa, her audiences were racially diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the overall field widened, Harris faded from de facto front-runner status. She became one of many candidates vying for money, media attention and votes — especially once Biden announced in the spring. She raised $12 million in the first quarter of 2019, a solid sum but not one that reflected the electricity of her opening salvo in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That thing was a free-for-all,” said Boyd Brown, a former Democratic National Committee member who backed former Texas Rep. 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She personalized her broadside, telling of a young minority student who attended an integrated school only because of federal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That little girl was me,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dbf7aa798cf54646a7b8c705c6af27e8\">she told Biden\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ campaign immediately marketed campaign merchandise with the quote, drawing some criticism that the line was canned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">A sputtering finish\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The debate gave Harris her best fundraising surge since her launch. But the good news was short-lived. She clarified in succeeding days that she did not necessarily support federally mandated busing — the position Biden held as a young U.S. senator. And even with the boost, her second-quarter fundraising haul was only $12 million, well behind Biden, Sanders and Buttigieg, who doubled her mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer, Harris unveiled her health care plan, proposing to add a Medicare-like public option to existing private health insurance exchanges. It was a shift that abandoned her single-payer position in the Senate and highlighted her difficulty finding a core message. In debates, rivals attacked her record as a prosecutor, especially her aggressiveness against drug offenders. By the fall, her speaking time on stage was middle of the pack, making it difficult to change the dynamics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden was faltering in Iowa and New Hampshire. However, Biden’s support among Black voters remained steady, and Harris could not afford television ads. Harris’ ideal scenario — an impressive start in Iowa, then moving ahead of Biden in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday — was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joe Biden has always been our guy,” said Antjuan Seawright, a prominent Black Democratic consultant in South Carolina, explaining that it was never a rejection of Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-ca-state-wire-politics-election-2020-kamala-harris-9f15f9bae46c54de8d88ad3e8388e4be\">She ended her campaign\u003c/a> on Dec. 3, 2019, saying, “In good faith, I can’t tell you … that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Still enough for the No. 2 spot — and now No. 1\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The harshest assessment is that Harris ran a bad campaign that reflected the principal — a warning about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harris-election-president-wisconsin-democrats-012c6474b8b23960d2cf616e92989a4b\">her 2024 prospects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s just a horrible candidate who could not communicate a rationale for her candidacy,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who mused that Biden, at 81 years old, may have been quicker to set aside his own reelection ambitions if he had more confidence in his vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Democrats are more charitable with their hindsight. 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