Browse all our stories on Vice President Kamala Harris, including archive coverage of her accomplishments — and controversies — during her time in Bay Area and California politics before 2020.
The Oakland-born, Berkeley-raised Harris was San Francisco district attorney from 2004–10, California attorney general from 2011–17 and United States senator for California from 2017–21. In 2020, she became the first woman, the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be elected to vice president.
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sen. Laphonza Butler, who was appointed by Newsom last year to the seat long held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000760/sen-laphonza-butler-on-the-rise-of-her-friend-kamala-harris\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> that her story of California is a universal one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I start by telling a great story of California’s great diversity,” she said, noting that it’s not just ethnic and racial diversity. “We are cities and towns and suburbs and rural communities, and we’re a border state. And we have challenges of wildfires, challenges of earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are right on the Pacific Ocean, and we have beautiful beaches that are being eroded every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means California has things in common with places like Iowa, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Florida, Butler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our farmers are trying to find ways to make sure that they are able to water their cattle or their crops,” she continued. “That is true for Iowa. And Kansas. 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Gavin Newsom, standing behind Rep. Maxine Waters and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, joins the California delegation as they cast their votes during the Ceremonial Roll Call of States on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are a state of dreamers and doers, of entrepreneurs and innovators, that pride themselves on being on the cutting edge of new ideas,” Newsom said to cheers. “California’s the most diverse state, in the world’s most diverse democracy. And we pride ourselves on our ability to live together and band together and prosper together across every conceivable and imaginable difference. But the thing we pride ourselves most on is that we believe the future happens in California first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris name-checked California twice in her speech. She has studiously \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/politics/kamala-harris-berkeley-hometown.html\">avoided direct references to Berkeley\u003c/a>, where she was born, but she spoke warmly of her time growing up in a working-class community in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands. We lived in the flats. A beautiful, working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers. All who tended their lawns with pride,” she told the convention hall Thursday night as she accepted the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris noted that her single mother worked long hours, relying on her “trusted circle” to help raise her daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of them family by blood, and all of them family by love,” she said. “Family who taught us how to make gumbo, how to play chess — and sometimes even let us win. Family who loved us, believed in us and told us we could be anything and do anything. They instilled in us the values they personified — community, faith and the importance of treating others as you would want to be treated. With kindness, respect and compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Harris sought to tie her upbringing to a broader American story that can resonate in swing states and with persuadable voters, Breed leaned into San Francisco’s uniqueness. She had some help from a wealthy Bay Area entrepreneur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Larsen, the billionaire founder of financial tech company Ripple, hosted a private event billed to celebrate San Francisco at the nightclub Tao Chicago. Invitations proclaimed it a “Night of technology and truth” featuring a surprise performance by The Killers along with remarks by Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that Trump is going to be attacking the city to attack Kamala unfairly,” Larsen told KQED before the event. “And we don’t want to let him get away with that because the city is actually on the upswing. We can’t let that narrative get away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen and Breed emphasized San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996211/san-francisco-crime-is-down-significantly-but-its-not-clear-trend-will-last\">declining crime rate\u003c/a> and its status as a hub of tech innovation. Speaking as the crowd sipped sparkling wine and ate sushi, Breed played the role of cheerleader for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this moment in time, it is so critical that we talk about the truth about San Francisco ‘cause you know the Republicans are trying to turn San Francisco into something it’s not,” she said. “They’re trying to turn San Francisco into a bad word, yet everything that gets created, all the innovation, happens in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed went on to list all the companies with ties to the city by the Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They pull out their iPhones, produced in the Bay Area and introduced in San Francisco, to call their Uber or Lyft, companies based in San Francisco,” she said. “And while they are riding to their Airbnb, a company in San Francisco, they’re tweeting bad things about our city, in a company that until recently was based in San Francisco,” she said to laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A relaxed and energetic Breed also declared San Francisco “the AI capital of the world — because I say so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked earlier that day why so much political talent comes out of the city, Breed had this zinger: “Because we’re San Francisco. That’s why everyone tries to come for us because we’re one of the most amazing cities anywhere in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who got his start in politics in San Francisco on a traffic commission, said it’s no surprise that the city produced a political star like Harris, whose first elected office was district attorney of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the successes of a city like San Francisco or a state like California that push its leaders to be bold, Newsom said. It’s also the challenges, like the desperation of HIV and AIDS or the homelessness crisis he’s been working to solve his whole career. So, while others are talking up California’s failures, he said he will be acknowledging them — and pushing for the next solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what’s in the DNA is sort of an established expectation of staying on leading, the cutting edge — there’s no grace for not being ahead of the curve. Looking around the corner, iterating, taking risks, doing the next thing,” he said. “The mind gets stretched, and it never goes back to its original form. And then you always look beyond that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At a fundraiser in San Francisco last week, Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/Kamala-Harris/\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> spoke bluntly about the future of reproductive rights: California is not immune to a national abortion ban, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stakes are high,” Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, said to a cheering crowd at the Fairmont Hotel that included Gov. Gavin Newsom and other high-profile Democrats. She continued the theme this week at the Democratic National Convention, where delegates have stressed their fears that reproductive rights could be curtailed nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Democratic nominee, Harris has made \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">abortion and reproductive rights\u003c/a> a central issue in the presidential race. Political strategists and pollsters say it’s a winning issue for Democrats, with the majority of the American public supportive of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/abortion/\">abortion\u003c/a> to some degree even as nearly two dozen states have passed abortion bans since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended federal abortion protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where did Harris’ full-throated support for abortion rights come from? According to colleagues, friends and Harris’ public record, it’s anything but new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She built a reputation in California as a prosecutor who backed abortion rights, and, as attorney general, Harris threw her weight behind multiple abortion issues with national consequences. Two standouts include investigating claims that Planned Parenthood \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-attorney-general-seizes-planned-parenthood-videos-20160405-story.html\">sold fetal remains\u003c/a> and supporting regulation of \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-statement-governor-brown-signing\">anti-abortion pregnancy centers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I have known her, this has always been a core issue,” said San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu. Chiu is a former Democratic Assembly member who has known Harris for more than 20 years and worked with her on multiple statewide campaigns opposing ballot measures that would have required doctors to tell parents before performing an abortion on a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That record gives her credibility to her platform on reproductive rights, but it also makes her a target among anti-abortion groups who stamp Harris as an extremist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The party that called for abortions to be ‘safe, legal and rare’ is long gone,” said Marjorie Dannefelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, in a press release on the Democratic National Convention’s 2024 platform. “They ignore the majority of women facing unplanned pregnancy who want real solutions to keep their children, not more pressure to abort. And they lack the courage to tell the truth about their agenda to go even further than Roe by passing a national all-trimester abortion mandate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigating anti-abortion group\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As attorney general, Harris’ first foray into the highly charged national abortion debate came in April 2016 when investigators from the California Department of Justice raided the home of anti-abortion activist David Daleiden, seizing a laptop and hard drives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months prior, Daleiden posted videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood executives engaging in the illegal sale of fetal remains. The videos showed covertly filmed conversations of Planned Parenthood executives discussing abortion procedures and how tissue is collected and exchanged with research companies. At least 13 state investigations, including those initiated by Republican lawmakers, have since debunked the claims made by Daleiden in the videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating fetal tissue to researchers and recouping expenses is legal under U.S. law and states may impose additional regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the time the videos set off a firestorm of outrage across the country. They’re circulating again on social media this election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001800\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001800\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP_19042799392760_sized-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP_19042799392760_sized-copy.jpg 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP_19042799392760_sized-copy-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As attorney general, Kamala Harris opened an investigation into anti-abortion activist David Daleiden after he published secretly recorded videos of discussions with Planned Parenthood leaders. His criminal case is expected to go to trial in December. He has denied wrongdoing. Daleiden is shown here outside a San Francisco courtroom on Feb. 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Conservatives characterized Harris’ investigation into Daleiden as a political inquisition. Anti-abortion groups protested the raid, and some California Republicans called on Harris to investigate Planned Parenthood instead of Daleiden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made no public remarks about Daleiden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harris never held a press conference. She didn’t do that,” said Dan Morain, a former CalMatters editor who wrote a biography of the vice president called \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kamalas-Way/Dan-Morain/9781982175771\">\u003cem>Kamala’s Way, An American Life\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “She was doing what prosecutors need to do, (which) is not try the case in public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence gathered by Harris’ justice department laid the groundwork for \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Complaint%20Affidavit_SF.PDF\">15 felony charges (PDF)\u003c/a> later filed by then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra against Daleiden and his counterpart Sandra Merritt, alleging they recorded conversations without consent in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Daleiden called the charges “bogus.” He has maintained he was exercising his First Amendment rights when he recorded conversations with Planned Parenthood leaders, and that the recordings were obtained legitimately in public places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of prosecuting the persons and organizations caught on tape (of) commercially exploiting fetal tissue transfers, the Attorney General instead targeted Daleiden and Merritt,” court documents filed by Daleiden’s attorney state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Kneer, who was chief executive of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, refuted the idea that Harris granted the organization “any special favors.” Instead, the organization was required to supply investigators with reams of documentation, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really held our feet to the fire and did everything within the letter of the law,” Kneer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California declined to be interviewed for this story. The organization has endorsed Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal case against Daleiden is ongoing with a jury trial scheduled for December. The state Supreme Court most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/antiabortion-activists-face-criminal-trial-top-17867476.php\">rejected an appeal\u003c/a> from Daleiden and Merritt in 2023, allowing the jury trial to move forward. In 2019, a civil jury ruled against Daleiden and awarded Planned Parenthood $2.2 million in damages, which the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed by dismissing Daleiden’s federal appeal in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Backed California law regulating pregnancy centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Harris sponsored a bill in the Legislature to regulate crisis pregnancy centers. It was a relatively risky move, some say, which would end up backfiring when the U.S. Supreme Court sided with anti-abortion groups and overturned the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She stuck her neck out on that one by sponsoring the bill,” Morain said. “It’s quite apparent that it wasn’t necessarily going to be the case that it was deemed constitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation — simple on its face — required crisis pregnancy centers to post a notification stating that comprehensive family planning services including contraception and abortion were available through state public programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001801\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001801\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As California attorney general, Kamala Harris supported a law to regulate anti-abortion pregnancy centers. Here, an examination room at the Alternatives Pregnancy Center in Sacramento is ready for patients on June 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/06/crisis-pregnancy-centers-california/\">Crisis pregnancy centers\u003c/a> are often religiously affiliated organizations that aim to prevent women from getting abortions. They may offer free diapers, parenting classes and other social services, but abortion rights advocates also accuse them of misleading women about the dangers of abortion and contraception — an accusation that many centers deny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Center owners and those in the anti-abortion movement vehemently opposed the law, stating that the government was forcing them to advertise something with which they fundamentally disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not right, not fair and clearly unconstitutional,” said Thomas Glessner, president of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, a legal organization with about 155 member pregnancy centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost as soon as then-\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/11/abortion-law-california-settlement-nifla-becerra-daleiden-sekulow/\">Gov. Jerry Brown signed the requirement into law\u003c/a>, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates filed a lawsuit to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1140_5368.pdf\">U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law (PDF)\u003c/a> on First Amendment grounds. Since then, lawmakers across the country have struggled to regulate pregnancy centers. There are at least \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/06/crisis-pregnancy-centers-california/\">176 pregnancy centers in California\u003c/a>, according to a 2023 CalMatters analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We won the case and it was hailed by a lot of free speech advocates as … the most significant free speech case in a generation,” Glessner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the law was struck down, supporters don’t necessarily see it as a strike against Harris’ record. Chiu, who co-authored the bill, said he believes the law was narrowly tailored and would have been upheld if former President Donald Trump had not appointed three Supreme Court justices during his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Abortion on the ballot after Roe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ public messaging on abortion has been remarkably consistent throughout her career. She has repeatedly credited her work as a local prosecutor specializing in sex crimes against women and children for her condemnation of total and near total abortion bans that make no exceptions for rape or incest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that states would be passing laws that would take from an individual their right to self determination after they have endured such an atrocious act of violence is unconscionable,” Harris said during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=NS-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C-GK2T&ref=watch_permalink&v=3349840731967661\">reproductive rights forum with California lawmakers\u003c/a> in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Republican presidential nominee Trump has said he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243942019/trump-abortion-ban-arizona-supreme-court-florida-6-week-ban\">not sign a national ban\u003c/a> and pushed the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/republicans-abortion-party-platform-trump-rnc-5561e857c5501df9864ab8ca666d8bc5\">Republican National Committee to adopt a softer stance\u003c/a> that hints at, but doesn’t outright acknowledge, fetal personhood. He has taken credit for the Supreme Court repealing Roe v. Wade, and said the issue should be settled by individual states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11998607,news_11999170,news_11999957\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans “backed away from clarity,” said Mary Ruth Ziegler, an abortion historian and legal scholar from UC Davis School of Law, on the updated Republican platform. “The platform is very confusing, and I think that’s on purpose because it’s designed to appeal to people with a wide variety of positions on abortion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an unsurprising, calculated move, said Mike Madrid, a long-time California GOP strategist and Trump opponent, because abortion is a losing issue for Republicans. It’s Harris’ strongest issue, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as you’re focused on an issue that is not your strength, you either do a complete 180 on it or you’re going to suffer on the polls,” Madrid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler also said the type of outrage Daleiden and his organization Center for Medical Progress tried to stoke 10 years ago with his undercover videos may have less impact on today’s voter in part because states have actually banned abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strategies that might have worked to paint supporters of abortion rights as extremists don’t seem to be as effective in a world where, you know, almost half the country has some kind of ban,” Ziegler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Democratic state State Sen. Toni Atkins, who ran two reproductive health clinics before seeking public office, called Harris “the loudest and most visible and most prominent voice on reproductive freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That visibility has included her visiting a Planned Parenthood clinic earlier this year, the first vice president to do so. But because of her long-running support, anti-abortion advocates like Glessner see a Harris presidency as a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We immediately sent out an invitation for her to visit a pro-life pregnancy center … and of course never got a response,” Glessner said. “Why don’t you come and see who you’re criticizing and give us a fair shake?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harris campaign did not respond to several interview requests for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where did Harris’ full-throated support for abortion rights come from? According to colleagues, friends and Harris’ public record, it’s anything but new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She built a reputation in California as a prosecutor who backed abortion rights, and, as attorney general, Harris threw her weight behind multiple abortion issues with national consequences. Two standouts include investigating claims that Planned Parenthood \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-attorney-general-seizes-planned-parenthood-videos-20160405-story.html\">sold fetal remains\u003c/a> and supporting regulation of \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-statement-governor-brown-signing\">anti-abortion pregnancy centers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I have known her, this has always been a core issue,” said San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu. Chiu is a former Democratic Assembly member who has known Harris for more than 20 years and worked with her on multiple statewide campaigns opposing ballot measures that would have required doctors to tell parents before performing an abortion on a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That record gives her credibility to her platform on reproductive rights, but it also makes her a target among anti-abortion groups who stamp Harris as an extremist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The party that called for abortions to be ‘safe, legal and rare’ is long gone,” said Marjorie Dannefelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, in a press release on the Democratic National Convention’s 2024 platform. “They ignore the majority of women facing unplanned pregnancy who want real solutions to keep their children, not more pressure to abort. And they lack the courage to tell the truth about their agenda to go even further than Roe by passing a national all-trimester abortion mandate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigating anti-abortion group\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As attorney general, Harris’ first foray into the highly charged national abortion debate came in April 2016 when investigators from the California Department of Justice raided the home of anti-abortion activist David Daleiden, seizing a laptop and hard drives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months prior, Daleiden posted videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood executives engaging in the illegal sale of fetal remains. The videos showed covertly filmed conversations of Planned Parenthood executives discussing abortion procedures and how tissue is collected and exchanged with research companies. At least 13 state investigations, including those initiated by Republican lawmakers, have since debunked the claims made by Daleiden in the videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating fetal tissue to researchers and recouping expenses is legal under U.S. law and states may impose additional regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the time the videos set off a firestorm of outrage across the country. They’re circulating again on social media this election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001800\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001800\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP_19042799392760_sized-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP_19042799392760_sized-copy.jpg 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP_19042799392760_sized-copy-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As attorney general, Kamala Harris opened an investigation into anti-abortion activist David Daleiden after he published secretly recorded videos of discussions with Planned Parenthood leaders. His criminal case is expected to go to trial in December. He has denied wrongdoing. Daleiden is shown here outside a San Francisco courtroom on Feb. 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Conservatives characterized Harris’ investigation into Daleiden as a political inquisition. Anti-abortion groups protested the raid, and some California Republicans called on Harris to investigate Planned Parenthood instead of Daleiden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made no public remarks about Daleiden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harris never held a press conference. She didn’t do that,” said Dan Morain, a former CalMatters editor who wrote a biography of the vice president called \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kamalas-Way/Dan-Morain/9781982175771\">\u003cem>Kamala’s Way, An American Life\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “She was doing what prosecutors need to do, (which) is not try the case in public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence gathered by Harris’ justice department laid the groundwork for \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Complaint%20Affidavit_SF.PDF\">15 felony charges (PDF)\u003c/a> later filed by then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra against Daleiden and his counterpart Sandra Merritt, alleging they recorded conversations without consent in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Daleiden called the charges “bogus.” He has maintained he was exercising his First Amendment rights when he recorded conversations with Planned Parenthood leaders, and that the recordings were obtained legitimately in public places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of prosecuting the persons and organizations caught on tape (of) commercially exploiting fetal tissue transfers, the Attorney General instead targeted Daleiden and Merritt,” court documents filed by Daleiden’s attorney state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Kneer, who was chief executive of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, refuted the idea that Harris granted the organization “any special favors.” Instead, the organization was required to supply investigators with reams of documentation, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really held our feet to the fire and did everything within the letter of the law,” Kneer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California declined to be interviewed for this story. The organization has endorsed Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal case against Daleiden is ongoing with a jury trial scheduled for December. The state Supreme Court most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/antiabortion-activists-face-criminal-trial-top-17867476.php\">rejected an appeal\u003c/a> from Daleiden and Merritt in 2023, allowing the jury trial to move forward. In 2019, a civil jury ruled against Daleiden and awarded Planned Parenthood $2.2 million in damages, which the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed by dismissing Daleiden’s federal appeal in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Backed California law regulating pregnancy centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Harris sponsored a bill in the Legislature to regulate crisis pregnancy centers. It was a relatively risky move, some say, which would end up backfiring when the U.S. Supreme Court sided with anti-abortion groups and overturned the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She stuck her neck out on that one by sponsoring the bill,” Morain said. “It’s quite apparent that it wasn’t necessarily going to be the case that it was deemed constitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation — simple on its face — required crisis pregnancy centers to post a notification stating that comprehensive family planning services including contraception and abortion were available through state public programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001801\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001801\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/060123_Alternatives-Pregnancy-Center_MG_CM_07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As California attorney general, Kamala Harris supported a law to regulate anti-abortion pregnancy centers. 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She has repeatedly credited her work as a local prosecutor specializing in sex crimes against women and children for her condemnation of total and near total abortion bans that make no exceptions for rape or incest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that states would be passing laws that would take from an individual their right to self determination after they have endured such an atrocious act of violence is unconscionable,” Harris said during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=NS-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C-GK2T&ref=watch_permalink&v=3349840731967661\">reproductive rights forum with California lawmakers\u003c/a> in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Republican presidential nominee Trump has said he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243942019/trump-abortion-ban-arizona-supreme-court-florida-6-week-ban\">not sign a national ban\u003c/a> and pushed the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/republicans-abortion-party-platform-trump-rnc-5561e857c5501df9864ab8ca666d8bc5\">Republican National Committee to adopt a softer stance\u003c/a> that hints at, but doesn’t outright acknowledge, fetal personhood. 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"content": "\u003cp>CHICAGO — Standing before a roaring crowd waving American flags and “Kamala” signs, Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president on Thursday night, capping a whirlwind 32 days since she entered the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Harris’ opportunity to introduce herself to the nation, and while her speech included attacks on her Republican opponent Donald Trump, it was centered on lessons from her mother, their middle-class life and her own realization of the American dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“America, the path that led me here in recent weeks, was no doubt unexpected. But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys,” she said, describing how she was raised by her mother, a cancer research scientist who moved to California from India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I miss her every day, especially now,” Harris said. “And I know she’s looking down tonight and smiling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are our five key takeaways from the final night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Harris shared her Bay Area middle-class roots\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harris leaned into her Bay Area roots, recounting childhood years spent with her mother, Shyamala Harris, and her sister, Maya, in a small apartment in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands,” Harris said to cheers from California’s delegation. “We lived in the flats — a beautiful, working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers, all who tended their lawns with pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris touted her work fighting for relief for middle-class homeowners after the foreclosure crisis. And as president, she vowed that building up the middle class would be her “defining goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is personal for me,” she said. “The middle class is where I come from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001529\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to formally accept the Democratic Party nomination for president on the last day of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Harris leaned into justice in all forms\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harris is a former prosecutor, but Thursday’s program leaned not just into holding people who break the law accountable but also highlighting victims, including those wronged by the justice system and wronged by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the speakers: Members of the so-called Central Park Five, five Black and Latino teenagers wrongfully convicted in New York for the 1989 rape and assault of a white female jogger. Trump took out full-page newspaper ads calling for the boys to face the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spent more than a decade in prison before being exonerated in 2002. Korey Wise told the arena that their youth was stolen. Yusef Salaam, now a New York City Council member representing Harlem, also spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another speaker, Courtney Baldwin, a human trafficking survivor who is now a youth organizer, said she endured a horrific ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know it yet, but waiting on the other side were people who were fighting for survivors. One of them was Kamala Harris,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin said Harris, as California Attorney General, shut down the sex trafficking website that made her abuse possible and filed criminal charges against its operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s protected people like me her whole life, and I know she’ll fight for us as president,” Baldwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her speech, Harris spoke about Wanda, her childhood best friend, who Harris said was sexually abused by her stepfather. Harris’ family took in Wanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is one of the many reasons I became a prosecutor,” Harris said. “To protect people like Wanda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Broad promises, warnings and a cease-fire call\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harris’ meteoric rise in the presidential race has been heavy on vibes and light on policy promises. On Thursday, she stuck with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ agenda included some leftover Biden to-do’s, such as passing voting rights legislation to reinstate requirements on certain states to gain federal approval before changing their election laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mostly, Harris spoke of broad promises to foster collaboration with business and labor, end the nation’s housing shortage and enshrine federal abortion protections — all without much detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris spent far more time warning of the ideas contained in Project 2025, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">policy playbook written by Trump’s allies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vice president summed it up simply: “They are out of their minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris also warned of the dangers of a second Trump presidency, one with considerably more power after the recent Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the biggest applause lines of the night, Harris called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and the release of hostages in Gaza. She first reiterated her support for Israel and its right to defend itself, then called what has happened in Gaza “devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking,” she said. “President Biden and I are working to end this war such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd roared in approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz celebrate after Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Aug. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>President for all Americans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To a nation still getting to know Harris, she emphasized that while she is a Democrat from California, she will put the country above her party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there are people of various political views watching tonight,” she said. “And I want you to know, I promise to be a President for all Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With battleground states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Harris will need every vote she can muster in order to win, including from disaffected voters like those who supported Nikki Haley in the Republican primaries. Harris’ message was intended to assure them she could be trusted with the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our nation, with this election, has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism and the divisive battles of the past,” she said. “A chance to chart a new way forward. Not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also the imagery: Chants of “U-S-A,” an arena full of people waving American flags as Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” blasted and a short speech from a Michigan sheriff. It might have reassured viewers that Harris is not the “communist” Donald Trump has labeled her.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Beyoncé, but we did find Newsom\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A few hours before Harris took the stage, we were summoned to the club level of the United Center to interview a man who has led something of a parallel political life to the vice president: Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Harris shared her Bay Area middle-class roots\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harris leaned into her Bay Area roots, recounting childhood years spent with her mother, Shyamala Harris, and her sister, Maya, in a small apartment in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands,” Harris said to cheers from California’s delegation. “We lived in the flats — a beautiful, working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers, all who tended their lawns with pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris touted her work fighting for relief for middle-class homeowners after the foreclosure crisis. And as president, she vowed that building up the middle class would be her “defining goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is personal for me,” she said. “The middle class is where I come from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001529\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to formally accept the Democratic Party nomination for president on the last day of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Harris leaned into justice in all forms\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harris is a former prosecutor, but Thursday’s program leaned not just into holding people who break the law accountable but also highlighting victims, including those wronged by the justice system and wronged by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the speakers: Members of the so-called Central Park Five, five Black and Latino teenagers wrongfully convicted in New York for the 1989 rape and assault of a white female jogger. Trump took out full-page newspaper ads calling for the boys to face the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spent more than a decade in prison before being exonerated in 2002. Korey Wise told the arena that their youth was stolen. Yusef Salaam, now a New York City Council member representing Harlem, also spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another speaker, Courtney Baldwin, a human trafficking survivor who is now a youth organizer, said she endured a horrific ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know it yet, but waiting on the other side were people who were fighting for survivors. One of them was Kamala Harris,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin said Harris, as California Attorney General, shut down the sex trafficking website that made her abuse possible and filed criminal charges against its operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s protected people like me her whole life, and I know she’ll fight for us as president,” Baldwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her speech, Harris spoke about Wanda, her childhood best friend, who Harris said was sexually abused by her stepfather. Harris’ family took in Wanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is one of the many reasons I became a prosecutor,” Harris said. “To protect people like Wanda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Broad promises, warnings and a cease-fire call\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harris’ meteoric rise in the presidential race has been heavy on vibes and light on policy promises. 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She first reiterated her support for Israel and its right to defend itself, then called what has happened in Gaza “devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking,” she said. “President Biden and I are working to end this war such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd roared in approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167986116_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz celebrate after Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Aug. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>President for all Americans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To a nation still getting to know Harris, she emphasized that while she is a Democrat from California, she will put the country above her party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there are people of various political views watching tonight,” she said. “And I want you to know, I promise to be a President for all Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With battleground states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Harris will need every vote she can muster in order to win, including from disaffected voters like those who supported Nikki Haley in the Republican primaries. 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"content": "\u003cp>CHICAGO — What will Kamala Harris do about the Gaza war if she’s elected president? To some Californians watching, the best indicator might be what she’s doing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vice president seemed to take a stronger stance against Israel’s military response since Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/03/1235712368/kamala-harris-gaza-ceasefire-israel-aid\">calling for a cease-fire before President Joe Biden\u003c/a> did and skipped Israeli Prime Minister \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?536521-1/israeli-prime-minister-address-joint-meeting-congress\">Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress\u003c/a> in July. After meeting him, she said she pressed him for a cease-fire and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">pledged not to stay silent about the humanitarian crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then came her \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/politics/harris-rally-gaza-protesters.html\">shutdown of pro-Palestinian protesters at a campaign rally\u003c/a> this month in Michigan. And, perhaps most importantly, she declined to support an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/politics/harris-israel-arms-embargo.html\">arms embargo on weapons sold to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mixed messaging has had mixed reactions from those who oppose the war at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with delegates and protesters from California seeking different ways to pressure the party for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the convention hall, some delegates want the party platform to call for the arms embargo, though the one adopted on a voice vote on Monday does not include it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Salas, a delegate from California, said he wants a stronger stand from Harris and wants to see the party acknowledge Palestinians’ loss of land in its platform. “We need to hold our elected officials accountable to the platform we write,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets outside the United Center, hundreds of protesters marched Monday to send a message to Democratic leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrators included Wassim Hage, a community leader with the San Francisco-based Arab Resource and Organizing Center, who traveled to Chicago not for the convention but for the March on DNC, arranged by a coalition that included labor, gender justice and other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hage said he sees an opportunity in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/gaza-war-california-leaders/\">activism from within the party\u003c/a> and those on the outside: “We are watching the cracks in the Democratic Party establishment emerge, and I think our goal is to pressure those cracks, to make sure that support for Israel, support for Zionism in the short-term and the long-term is not, is not tenable for American politicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/blinken-urges-hamas-to-accept-bridging-proposal-agreed-to-by-israel\">While cease-fire talks continue\u003c/a>, as of this week, Israel’s military has killed 40,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinians-statistics-40000-7ebec13101f6d08fe10cedbf5e172dde\">a quarter of them reported to be children\u003c/a>, the Associated Press reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11996920,forum_2010101905301,news_11982112\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts\">Council on Foreign Relations\u003c/a>, since October, the United States has allocated at least $12.5 billion in military aid to Israel and has provisionally agreed to provide Israel with $3.8 billion per year through 2028. As of June, the U.S. had pledged $674 million in humanitarian aid to Palestinians since October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many attending the convention, the choice between Harris and former president Donald Trump is an obvious one — and one they’re excited about, donning Harris-emblazoned shirts and other fashion accessories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for others for whom the conflict is central, the path forward weighs heavy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrene Odeh, an uncommitted delegate from Washington state, said for her to vote for Harris, she wants to see tangible movement on the Gaza issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks have been talking about sympathetic words, feelings, vibes,” said Odeh, who is Palestinian. “That, unfortunately, doesn’t save lives, and we need lives saved now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the convention adopted the party platform, Liano Sharon, a delegate from Michigan, said some still plan to push for language that would include a cease-fire plus an arms embargo, which was a main point of contention during the public drafting phase, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/18/dnc-platform/\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf#page=83\">The platform (PDF)\u003c/a> currently states that Democrats “commitment to Israel’s security, its qualitative military edge, its right to defend itself, and the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding is ironclad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The platform also states the party recognizes the worth of every innocent life, “whether Israeli or Palestinian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate from the platform push, delegates from around the U.S. are collecting signatures on \u003ca href=\"https://airtable.com/appPU7Smi9CEtJq2A/pagMCamXvS2MUj2I4/form\">a letter\u003c/a> asking Harris to “turn the page on President Biden’s policy on Gaza.” One delegate who signed the letter on Sunday said there were about 150 signatures at that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his convention speech on Monday night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/08/20/biden-dnc-gaza-war-protesters-point\">Biden said\u003c/a> he’s “working around the clock” to end civilian suffering, “finally deliver a cease-fire and end this war.” He also said that protesters on the streets “have a point. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of San Franciscans lined the walls of Manny’s in the Mission on Monday, cheering at a single TV in the popular cafe. No 49ers playoffs or Drag Race All Stars here — they came to see Vice President Kamala Harris and others take the stage at this week’s Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The convention comes about a month after Biden ended his reelection campaign and announced his support for Harris, who recently selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Energy was high on Monday in Manny’s, a popular civic salon, as people rooted for their favorite politicos and passersby gathered at a front window to get a peek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel really optimistic about the race right now. Kamala is such a better candidate than Biden, and I think she has a good chance of winning, and I love Tim Walz. I think they will capture the young vote and people like me,” said DeVon Thompson, a 20-year-old from New York City living in San Francisco for a summer internship in the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000871\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DeVon Thompson cheers during the first night of the Democratic National Convention at a watch party at Manny’s in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thompson was among about 60 people who stopped by Manny’s to catch the first night of the four-day convention, which kicked off Monday in Chicago with speakers including Hillary Clinton, Steve Kerr, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have too many friends here yet, so I came out to make more, and I’m excited just to watch,” Thompson said, adding that it was his first convention to watch and his first election he’s able to vote in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others at Monday’s gathering have been steeped in politics for years. Noe Valley resident Doug Neilson remembers watching parties for the Democratic National Convention when Barack Obama was running for president, and now he’s riding the wave of enthusiasm for Harris. He plans to travel to Nevada and take part in a phone banking to campaign for the vice president this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000867\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd watches Vice President Kamala Harris speak during the first night of the Democratic National Convention from a watch party at Manny’s in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember the celebration that night (when Obama was elected), and the reason I’m here is to help that happen again for Kamala Harris,” Neilson said. “I’ve never felt this energy before, from being very, very concerned to now having an incredible amount of hope. But we also have to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the roughly 60 people who came through the party on Monday, it was a chance to meet neighbors and share both optimism and fears about the upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it would be fun to see this with people in the neighborhood and build excitement,” Mission resident Alice Liu said. “It’s been hard to see a fractious Democratic party, and I’m really excited to see how the different politicians can unite. The political environment has been really all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Harris supporter displays a pin they made in support of the vice president during a watch party for the first night of the Democratic National Convention at Manny’s in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, more than 4,000 delegates will meet at the convention in Chicago to recognize Harris as the Democratic nominee. Harris is already the official candidate, however, as she already earned the majority of her delegate votes in a virtual vote in early August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers planned for this week include former President Barack Obama, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former President Bill Clinton and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walz will speak on Wednesday night to accept the vice president nomination, and Harris, who made a surprise appearance already on Monday night, will speak again on Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000869\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Martin (center left) gathers with friends to watch speeches during the first night of the Democratic National Convention at Manny’s in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sidath Perera, who lives in the Glen Park neighborhood, stopped by for the camaraderie during the convention. He has visited other political events at Manny’s, which regularly hosts talks and forums with community and government leaders, and said he wanted to feel the excitement of the moment alongside some new faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11998607,forum_2010101906413,news_11996731\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really like the trajectory now. I was feeling really pessimistic after the debate (between Biden and former President Donald Trump) and am really thankful for the people who stuck their neck out and urged Biden to give the next generation a chance,” said Perera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Biden’s appearance on Monday in Chicago, he said that selecting Harris as a running mate was “the best decision I made in my whole career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’ll be a president our children can look up to. She’d be a president respected by world leaders because she already is. She’d be a president we can all be proud of. And she’d be a historic president who puts her stamp on America’s future,” Biden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David George Johnson, a San Francisco resident and mailman, was particularly moved by speakers like UAW President Shawn Fain, who called Trump “a scab” — a term referring to someone who crosses a picket line — in his DNC remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000870\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd gathers to watch speeches during the first night of the Democratic National Convention at a watch party at Manny’s in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the high cost of living and inequality are two of the issues he is most concerned about, and he felt proud that his union endorsed Harris for president last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This convention is really important because of our democracy,” Johnson said from a barstool at Manny’s. “We need to elect someone who can resonate with us here in the Bay Area and around the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dozens of San Franciscans lined the walls of Manny’s in the Mission on Monday, cheering at a single TV in the popular cafe. No 49ers playoffs or Drag Race All Stars here — they came to see Vice President Kamala Harris and others take the stage at this week’s Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The convention comes about a month after Biden ended his reelection campaign and announced his support for Harris, who recently selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Energy was high on Monday in Manny’s, a popular civic salon, as people rooted for their favorite politicos and passersby gathered at a front window to get a peek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel really optimistic about the race right now. Kamala is such a better candidate than Biden, and I think she has a good chance of winning, and I love Tim Walz. I think they will capture the young vote and people like me,” said DeVon Thompson, a 20-year-old from New York City living in San Francisco for a summer internship in the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000871\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DeVon Thompson cheers during the first night of the Democratic National Convention at a watch party at Manny’s in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thompson was among about 60 people who stopped by Manny’s to catch the first night of the four-day convention, which kicked off Monday in Chicago with speakers including Hillary Clinton, Steve Kerr, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have too many friends here yet, so I came out to make more, and I’m excited just to watch,” Thompson said, adding that it was his first convention to watch and his first election he’s able to vote in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others at Monday’s gathering have been steeped in politics for years. Noe Valley resident Doug Neilson remembers watching parties for the Democratic National Convention when Barack Obama was running for president, and now he’s riding the wave of enthusiasm for Harris. He plans to travel to Nevada and take part in a phone banking to campaign for the vice president this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000867\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd watches Vice President Kamala Harris speak during the first night of the Democratic National Convention from a watch party at Manny’s in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember the celebration that night (when Obama was elected), and the reason I’m here is to help that happen again for Kamala Harris,” Neilson said. “I’ve never felt this energy before, from being very, very concerned to now having an incredible amount of hope. But we also have to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the roughly 60 people who came through the party on Monday, it was a chance to meet neighbors and share both optimism and fears about the upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it would be fun to see this with people in the neighborhood and build excitement,” Mission resident Alice Liu said. “It’s been hard to see a fractious Democratic party, and I’m really excited to see how the different politicians can unite. The political environment has been really all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240819-DNCWATCHPARTY-13-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Harris supporter displays a pin they made in support of the vice president during a watch party for the first night of the Democratic National Convention at Manny’s in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, more than 4,000 delegates will meet at the convention in Chicago to recognize Harris as the Democratic nominee. Harris is already the official candidate, however, as she already earned the majority of her delegate votes in a virtual vote in early August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers planned for this week include former President Barack Obama, Vermont Sen. 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The survey found just 64% of registered voters knew what Harris stood for — as opposed to 86% for former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much will Harris lean into her California record?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The vice president’s supporters have quickly drawn the contrast between Harris, the prosecutor, and Trump, the convicted felon. Harris’ experience as attorney general in a border state has also shaped her campaign’s early messaging on immigration. But which parts of Harris’ political career in the Golden State will her supporters highlight at the convention? Will they tout her $25 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-senate-harris-banks-20161016-snap-story.html\">settlement with big banks\u003c/a> following the foreclosure crisis? Or her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10352855/corinthian-college-sell-off-no-deal-yet-for-california-students\">crackdown against for-profit Corinthian College\u003c/a>? Will convention speakers weave those stories into a compelling narrative of Harris as a champion of economic justice?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that work will be left to Harris surrogates such as Sen. Laphonza Butler, a former advisor on Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has moved up through the political ranks with Harris since their days in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who arrives in Chicago on Monday night, hinted last week that he plans to be an active booster at the convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll be sick of me by Thursday,” he joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will there be protests over the war in Gaza?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. 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