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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Harris’ office convicts the wrong man — a $13 million mistake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Actor Jamal Trulove was a contestant on VH1’s “I Love New York 2,” a “Bachelor”-style dating show in which 20 men competed for the affections of a failed reality show contestant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A viewer who happened to have witnessed a fatal July 2007 shooting at San Francisco’s Sunnydale housing project \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4658\">saw the show\u003c/a> and told police she was convinced: \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4658\">Trulove\u003c/a>, she said, had been the shooter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness, Priscilla Lualemaga, had initially identified a different man as the shooter. When police showed her a photo lineup and told her the shooter in that lineup, Lualemaga said \u003ca href=\"http://trulove/\">Trulove\u003c/a> “looks like the guy who could have shot” the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the show aired, Lualemaga said she was certain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/09/viral-image/harris-didnt-frame-and-prosecute-man-murder/\">case went to trial\u003c/a> in 2010, the DA’s office put both Lualemaga and her sister in witness protection, citing alleged threats. The jury convicted Trulove of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to 50 years to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000422\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man wearing sun glasses and a black leather jacket sits down inside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamal Trulove during an interview on the music podcast The Art of Dialogue. \u003ccite>(Image via screenshot of The Art of Dialogue’s YouTube Channel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on appeal, a ballistics expert testified that Lualemaga — \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/people-v-trulove\">the only eyewitness\u003c/a> to testify that Trulove was at the scene — could not have observed the shooting from the direction she was facing, given the rounds’ trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prosecutor wove these points into the very fabric of her closing argument, going so far as to urge the jury to have the same ‘courage’ as Lualemaga and find defendant guilty,” \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/people-v-trulove\">wrote appellate court judges\u003c/a>. “There was no evidence of any threats or other actual danger presented by defendant, his friends, or his family to Lualemaga or her family…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trulove was acquitted in March 2015 and went on to a role in the film “The Last Black Man in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/415119960/Trulove-Complaint\">federal lawsuit he filed after his release\u003c/a> — noting he was stabbed in prison when he failed to give his cell’s bottom bunk to a gang leader — cost the city and county of San Francisco $13 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gGA4VGj9Qw\">podcast interview\u003c/a>, he recounted his conviction: “I’ll never forget, when I turned around, and I looked, and I seen Kamala Harris — we locked eyes this one time, and she laughed — she literally just kinda busted out laughing,” said Trulove, who’s endorsed, Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Harris vs. the mentally ill woman shot by police, then prosecuted\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Espinoza case left Harris on shaky ground with the San Francisco Police Department — tension she sought to soothe via a monthly spot in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/09/kamala-harris-prosecuted-mentally-ill-woman-police-shot-democratic-presidential-campaign-san-francisco/\">police union newsletter.\u003c/a> In October 2008, here’s how her office \u003ca href=\"https://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/Vol_40_No_10_October_2008.pdf\">presented\u003c/a> a case in which police responded to a mentally ill woman in crisis:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When police were called to the defendant’s home, she allegedly attempted to assault the responding officers with a knife. The police subdued the defendant by shooting her several times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put another way: Police repeatedly shot a schizophrenic woman. And then Harris prosecuted her — but the jury balked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2008, Teresa Sheehan, then 56, was living in a group home for people with mental illness. When one of the home’s workers attempted to check on her, Sheehan replied with threats and \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/575/600/#tab-opinion-3407052\">said she had a knife\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A worker summoned police. Two officers knocked on Sheehan’s private room and eventually used a key to open her door. She grabbed a knife with a five-inch blade, the officers would later testify and said, “I am going to kill you. I don’t need help. Get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1934px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000423\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a black shirt sits down at a kitchen table.\" width=\"1934\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM.jpg 1934w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1934px) 100vw, 1934px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Sheehan during Christmas in 2013 \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Patricia Sheehan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The officers later testified that they retreated but, worried that Sheehan might climb out of her window and to a fire escape, they opened the door again. One pepper-sprayed Sheehan, and when she didn’t drop the knife, the other shot her twice. The first officer also shot her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She survived, and a jury acquitted her of making criminal threats and deadlocked on assault, though \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/09/kamala-harris-prosecuted-mentally-ill-woman-police-shot-democratic-presidential-campaign-san-francisco/\">11 of 12 jurors\u003c/a> voted for acquittal. Sheehan sued San Francisco, settling for $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If (Harris) actually looked at it and said, ‘This is a righteous case, I want to go after a mentally ill woman who was shot,’ then you question that decision,” Laurie Levenson, a criminal law professor at LA’s Loyola Law School \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/09/kamala-harris-prosecuted-mentally-ill-woman-police-shot-democratic-presidential-campaign-san-francisco/\">told CalMatters\u003c/a>. “If she didn’t know about it, then you question her management skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Harris vs. a ‘predatory’ for-profit college\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a 2013 U.S. Justice Department investigation turned up evidence that the for-profit Corinthian Colleges were \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2013-oct-10-la-fi-mo-corinthian-colleges-kamala-harris-lawsuit-20131010-story.html\">targeting “isolated” people\u003c/a> who were “unable to see and plan well for the future” while falsely promising prospective students job placement rates as high as 100%, it caught the eye of Kamala Harris. As California’s new attorney general, she sued them, alleging false advertising and deceptive marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Ana-based company had purchased several private for-profit colleges that were in financial trouble, including at least three in California. By 2010, it had enrolled more than 110,000 students at 105 campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, a number of Corinthian students told the U.S. Education Department that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-and-attorney-general-kamala-harris-announce-findings-investigation-wyotech-and-everest-programs\">schools weren’t placing them in jobs\u003c/a> at the rates Corinthian had promised, leaving them saddled with student debt. The Office of Federal Student Aid forced the schools to stop any mergers, purchases of new schools or offering new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said the schools were targeting some of California’s most vulnerable prospective students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The predatory scheme devised by executives at Corinthian Colleges, Inc. is unconscionable,” Harris \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-files-suit-alleged-profit-college-predatory\">said in 2013\u003c/a>. “Designed to rake in profits and mislead investors, they targeted some of our state’s most particularly vulnerable people—including low-income, single mothers and veterans returning from combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2016, Harris won a default judgment against Corinthian for $1.1 billion; the company never answered Harris’ legal complaint, and its lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Corinthian%20Final%20Judgment_1.pdf\">didn’t appear in court on the day of the verdict.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the U.S. Department of Education discharged \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/education-department-approves-58-billion-group-discharge-cancel-all-remaining-loans-560000-borrowers-who-attended-corinthian-colleges\">$5.8 billion in student loan debt\u003c/a> to 560,000 borrowers who paid to attend Corinthian Colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Harris vs. big banks in the mortgage meltdown\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ entry into the national spotlight came at the tail end of the Great Recession in 2011, when, as California’s attorney general, she rejected a settlement offer from five major mortgage lenders — one other states agreed to.[aside postID=\"news_11996875,news_11996883,news_11996704\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could have jeopardized the deal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-to-receive-more-than-20-billion-from-mortgage-settlement/\">but her brinkmanship\u003c/a> worked: The banks kicked in a lot more, allowing California to collect about $20 billion from \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-secures-18-billion-california-commitment\">an initial settlement offer of $4 billion.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement meant Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. collectively reduced $12 billion in principal on loans or offered short sales to about 250,000 California homeowners who owed more on their mortgages than their houses were worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of that negotiation and settlement became \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/kamala-harris-stood-up-to-big-banks-with-mixed-results-for-consumers-in-crisis-idUSKCN1SF0Z4/\">a key part\u003c/a> of Harris’ political narrative, especially during her first candidacy for president in the 2020 Democratic primaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the shine has somewhat worn off that victory in the years since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/finance/harris-says-she-rescued-california-homeowners-hurt-by-the-financial-crisis-the-reality-is-more-complex-0b38ffbc\">Wall Street Journal analysis\u003c/a> of the settlement found that, though Harris wanted to use the settlement money to reduce mortgage principals, about half the settlement went to banks that wrote off the mortgages on homes that had already been abandoned. Each Californian with a defaulted mortgage got a check for $1,400, which the state suggested it could use to help pay a month’s worth of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another $4.7 billion was used to reduce debt on second mortgages, often home equity credit lines. Only about $4.5 billion was used to lower debt on primary mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/business/how-kamala-harris-finessed-a-foreclosure-deal-for-california.html\">told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that in a homicide case, “you’re talking about something where the body’s cold. So the conversation is about punishment, it’s about restitution. This was not that. Every day, there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. When Harris defended the death penalty she opposes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Julia Miller’s husband found her body on Aug. 25, 1992, she had been bound with a telephone cord and stabbed to death. She had two knives still in her neck. There were pieces of three other knives near her body. There was a rag stuffed in her mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence immediately pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-jones-ernest-33266\">Miller’s daughter’s boyfriend\u003c/a>, Ernest Dewayne Jones, who had already served six years in state prison for raping his previous girlfriend’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela Miller, Juila’s daughter, told the court, “That bastard needs to be sentenced to death.” A judge agreed, and Jones was sent to California’s death row. But Pamela Miller told an\u003cem> LA Times\u003c/em> reporter that the sentencing was pointless because of how rarely executions were carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 20 years later, while Jones awaited execution, \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/CarneyOrder.pdf\">a federal judge overturned the sentence, declaring\u003c/a> California’s death penalty was unconstitutional because of the “inordinate and unpredictable period of delay” before execution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris — despite her own personal opposition to the death penalty and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-death-penalty-appeal-20140821-story.html\">over the objections of death penalty opponents\u003c/a> — went to court to defend it. “I am appealing the court’s decision because it is not supported by the law,” \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-statement-appeal-court-ruling-california\">Harris said in 2014\u003c/a>, “and it undermines important protections that our courts provide to defendants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She prevailed, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/uk/us-appeals-court-rejects-challenge-to-california-death-penalty-idUSKCN0T12B9/\">reinstated Jones’ death sentence\u003c/a>. In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/03/gavin-newsom-halts-executions-california/\">moratorium on executions\u003c/a>, shuttering San Quentin’s death chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. When Harris refused to defend a same-sex marriage ban\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For 29 days in early 2004, San Francisco issued more than 4,000 marriage licenses. Then-mayor Newsom had decided to allow same-sex couples to marry three weeks into his first term; the number of people \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Newsom-was-central-to-same-sex-marriage-saga-3186381.php\">calling City Hall\u003c/a> temporarily knocked out its phone lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weddings were, technically, against the law. Newsom’s office expected an immediate injunction after the first wedding, but it didn’t come for a month. Among those who officiated weddings during that 29-day blitz was the city’s district attorney, Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most joyful (moments of my career) was performing the marriages in 2004. Truly joyful,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-marks-20-years-122723615.html\">Harris told The Advocate\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5685429\">nullified all of the marriages\u003c/a> in April 2004, and voters then approved Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When same-sex couples challenged the ballot measure all the way to the nation’s highest court, then-Attorney General Harris \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-statement-prop-8-arguments\">refused to defend it\u003c/a>, saying it was unconstitutional. “The Supreme Court has described marriage as a fundamental right 14 times since 1888,” Harris said in 2013. “The time has come for this right to be afforded to every citizen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2013-jun-28-la-me-ln-gay-marriage-resumes-20130628-story.html\">Harris officiated the first wedding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. Cheap prison labor, defended by Harris’ office\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris read a news story one day in 2014 and discovered that attorneys at the state Justice Department she was heading had \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-federal-judges-order-state-to-release-more-prisoners-20141114-story.html\">argued against the release\u003c/a> of minimum-security prisoners because of their value to the state labor pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, at least, is how she explained it in an interview with Buzzfeed News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will be very candid with you because I saw that article this morning, and I was shocked, and I’m looking into it to see if the way it was characterized in the paper is actually how it occurred in court,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adamserwer/some-lawyers-just-want-to-see-the-world-burn\">Harris told BuzzFeed News in a 2014 interview\u003c/a>. “I was very troubled by what I read. I just need to find out what did we actually say in court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inmates working in prisons as groundskeepers, janitors and cooks earned between \u003ca href=\"https://documents.latimes.com/inmate-wages/\">8 and 37 cents per hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judicial panel overseeing California’s overcrowded prison system had ordered the state to increase the sentence reductions minimum-security inmates earned for participating in rehabilitation and education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, California Justice Department attorneys had a different view, arguing that prisons needed cheap inmate labor to keep functioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation — a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adamserwer/some-lawyers-just-want-to-see-the-world-burn\">Justice Department attorneys wrote\u003c/a> in a September 2014 filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The argument, later disavowed by Harris, was part of her office’s frequent conflicts with the three-judge panel overseeing the prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ attorney general’s office “continually equivocated regarding the facts and the law,” the three-judge panel \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/\">wrote in 2013\u003c/a>. “This court would, therefore, be within its rights to issue an order to show cause and institute contempt proceedings immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judges said they didn’t do so because that might further delay the state’s release of nonviolent prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>9. Harris, her lawyers and a fake confession\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Kern County prosecutor invented two lines of incriminating testimony in a defendant’s 2013 deposition and sent the faked transcript to the defendant’s public defender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phony lines read like a confession from defendant Efrain Velasco-Palacios and would have changed the potential charges of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child to penetrative sex with a child — meaning a conviction could trigger a life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the public defender discovered the fabrication, he successfully \u003ca href=\"https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1695398.html\">argued to get the case dismissed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Harris’ Justice Department appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their argument: The charges shouldn’t have been dismissed because, while the prosecutor did fake the lines, he didn’t physically assault Velasco-Palacios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dismissal is an appropriate sanction for government misconduct that is egregious enough to prejudice a defendant’s constitutional rights,” the California Court of Appeals found in 2015. “On appeal, however, the People dispute that (the prosecutor’s) misconduct was outrageous or conscience shocking in a constitutional sense, as it was not physically brutal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appellate court justices said it found “no support” for that argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2193px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit outfit expresses herself with her hands behind a podium with the California flag in the background.\" width=\"2193\" height=\"1461\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839.jpg 2193w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2193px) 100vw, 2193px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former California Attorney General Kamala Harris gives her first news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 30, 2010. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/The Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If Harris really thinks that knowingly producing a fraudulent document to secure an illicit advantage isn’t ‘outrageous,’ then perhaps she slept through her legal ethics courses,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/08/justice-honesty-government-prosecutor-column/24611623/\">wrote Glenn Harlan Reynolds\u003c/a>, a University of Tennessee law professor, in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/228691\">Robert Murray\u003c/a>, the prosecutor who filed the false transcript, \u003ca href=\"https://www.statebarcourt.ca.gov/Portals/2/documents/opinions/Murray.doc\">would later describe\u003c/a> his actions to the State Bar Court as a joke and a prank. It recommended a two-year suspension. Murray now works at the Office of the Inspector General and has had an active law license since 2018, according to the state bar website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her 2009 autobiography, in which she recounted her years as a prosecutor, Harris wrote about the kind of crimes that motivated her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In nearly twenty years as a prosecutor, the last six as the elected District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco, I have spent a lot of time moving between the bright spotlight that shines on certain aspects of our criminal justice system and the darker places that the public doesn’t see,” she wrote. “I have prosecuted the manipulative predators who commit sexual assaults on children. I have prosecuted conduct that is so destructive that my first and only priority has been to remove the perpetrator from free society for as long as humanly possible. Sometimes, forever.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In campaign mode, Kamala Harris doesn’t refer to herself as a politician but as a prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her rise in Democratic politics began in California’s courtrooms. Voters elected her first as San Francisco’s district attorney and then as the state’s attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She battled multinational corporations on behalf of Californians but also oversaw the wrongful conviction of someone who was later stabbed in prison. As the state’s lawyer, she refused to defend California’s gay marriage ban but did the opposite on the death penalty, defending the state’s policy despite her personal opposition to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she first ran for president five years ago, in a time of rising skepticism about policing, she pitched herself to Democratic primary voters as not merely a prosecutor but a \u003cem>progressive \u003c/em>prosecutor. Today, in a general election campaign that may hinge on winning over independents concerned about crime, she’s largely dropped the modifier. Her record as a prosecutor draws criticism from both sides: The left has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/kamala-harris-criminal-justice.html\">criticized her for having been too tough\u003c/a>, even as the Trump campaign charges that she was “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheStevenCheung/status/1816148262908293360\">soft as CHARMIN\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These nine cases — some successes, some stumbles — helped define the complicated law enforcement legacy of the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Harris faces first test when a cop is killed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The shooting of a police officer on a poorly lit street in San Francisco in 2004 would haunt Harris for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.odmp.org/officer/17277-police-officer-isaac-anthony-espinoza\">Isaac Espinoza\u003c/a> and his partner were in plainclothes when they approached a man in their unmarked vehicle on April 10. Espinoza, 29, stepped out and flashed a light at David Hill, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/gang-member-guilty-of-officer-s-murder/article_0ffd1f81-386a-5cb4-ba7f-826ebff0b185.html\">accounts of trial testimony\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill fired several rounds from an AK-47. Two struck Espinoza, killing him. Espinoza’s partner was injured, and Hill was accused of first-degree murder, along with other charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly elected DA, Harris, declined to pursue the death penalty against Hill – consistent with her position while she campaigned for the office, but offensive to many who attended Espinoza’s funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000425\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Isaac-Espinoza_CM_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000425\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Isaac-Espinoza_CM_01.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a man dressed in a police uniform.\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Isaac-Espinoza_CM_01.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Isaac-Espinoza_CM_01-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Isaac-Espinoza_CM_01-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza was shot and killed while working undercover in 2004. \u003ccite>(Photo via San Francisco Police Officers Association’s X account, the platform formerly known as Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is not only the definition of tragedy, it’s the special circumstance called for by the death penalty law,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Police-mourn-hero-who-refused-to-2766747.php\">former Sen. Dianne Feinstein told the mourners\u003c/a>, provoking a resounding standing ovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision immediately pitted Harris — the first woman, first Black and first Asian American district attorney in San Francisco history — against the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Isaac paid the ultimate price,” said San Francisco Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Police-mourn-hero-who-refused-to-2766747.php%5C\">at the funeral\u003c/a>. “And I speak for all officers in demanding that his killer also pay the ultimate price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eight weeks of testimony, jurors convicted Hill of second-degree murder and attempted murder. They rejected the charge of first-degree murder, not finding the act premeditated, and Hill’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Court-upholds-conviction-for-killing-S-F-cop-2462026.php\">conviction and life sentence\u003c/a> were upheld in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her 2009 book “Smart on Crime,” Harris wrote: “The broadly held assumption that simply increasing the penalty for any crime will automatically deter more people from committing the crime is a myth. We have to understand why long sentences alone are not sufficient to rock the crime pyramid for many types of crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Harris’ office convicts the wrong man — a $13 million mistake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Actor Jamal Trulove was a contestant on VH1’s “I Love New York 2,” a “Bachelor”-style dating show in which 20 men competed for the affections of a failed reality show contestant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A viewer who happened to have witnessed a fatal July 2007 shooting at San Francisco’s Sunnydale housing project \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4658\">saw the show\u003c/a> and told police she was convinced: \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4658\">Trulove\u003c/a>, she said, had been the shooter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness, Priscilla Lualemaga, had initially identified a different man as the shooter. When police showed her a photo lineup and told her the shooter in that lineup, Lualemaga said \u003ca href=\"http://trulove/\">Trulove\u003c/a> “looks like the guy who could have shot” the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the show aired, Lualemaga said she was certain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/09/viral-image/harris-didnt-frame-and-prosecute-man-murder/\">case went to trial\u003c/a> in 2010, the DA’s office put both Lualemaga and her sister in witness protection, citing alleged threats. The jury convicted Trulove of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to 50 years to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000422\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man wearing sun glasses and a black leather jacket sits down inside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Jamal-Trulove-YT-CM-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamal Trulove during an interview on the music podcast The Art of Dialogue. \u003ccite>(Image via screenshot of The Art of Dialogue’s YouTube Channel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on appeal, a ballistics expert testified that Lualemaga — \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/people-v-trulove\">the only eyewitness\u003c/a> to testify that Trulove was at the scene — could not have observed the shooting from the direction she was facing, given the rounds’ trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prosecutor wove these points into the very fabric of her closing argument, going so far as to urge the jury to have the same ‘courage’ as Lualemaga and find defendant guilty,” \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/people-v-trulove\">wrote appellate court judges\u003c/a>. “There was no evidence of any threats or other actual danger presented by defendant, his friends, or his family to Lualemaga or her family…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trulove was acquitted in March 2015 and went on to a role in the film “The Last Black Man in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/415119960/Trulove-Complaint\">federal lawsuit he filed after his release\u003c/a> — noting he was stabbed in prison when he failed to give his cell’s bottom bunk to a gang leader — cost the city and county of San Francisco $13 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gGA4VGj9Qw\">podcast interview\u003c/a>, he recounted his conviction: “I’ll never forget, when I turned around, and I looked, and I seen Kamala Harris — we locked eyes this one time, and she laughed — she literally just kinda busted out laughing,” said Trulove, who’s endorsed, Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Harris vs. the mentally ill woman shot by police, then prosecuted\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Espinoza case left Harris on shaky ground with the San Francisco Police Department — tension she sought to soothe via a monthly spot in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/09/kamala-harris-prosecuted-mentally-ill-woman-police-shot-democratic-presidential-campaign-san-francisco/\">police union newsletter.\u003c/a> In October 2008, here’s how her office \u003ca href=\"https://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/Vol_40_No_10_October_2008.pdf\">presented\u003c/a> a case in which police responded to a mentally ill woman in crisis:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When police were called to the defendant’s home, she allegedly attempted to assault the responding officers with a knife. The police subdued the defendant by shooting her several times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put another way: Police repeatedly shot a schizophrenic woman. And then Harris prosecuted her — but the jury balked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2008, Teresa Sheehan, then 56, was living in a group home for people with mental illness. When one of the home’s workers attempted to check on her, Sheehan replied with threats and \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/575/600/#tab-opinion-3407052\">said she had a knife\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A worker summoned police. Two officers knocked on Sheehan’s private room and eventually used a key to open her door. She grabbed a knife with a five-inch blade, the officers would later testify and said, “I am going to kill you. I don’t need help. Get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1934px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000423\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a black shirt sits down at a kitchen table.\" width=\"1934\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM.jpg 1934w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081424-Teresa-A-Sheehan-Christmas-2013-Photo-Courtesy-of-Patricia-Sheehan-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1934px) 100vw, 1934px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Sheehan during Christmas in 2013 \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Patricia Sheehan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The officers later testified that they retreated but, worried that Sheehan might climb out of her window and to a fire escape, they opened the door again. One pepper-sprayed Sheehan, and when she didn’t drop the knife, the other shot her twice. The first officer also shot her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She survived, and a jury acquitted her of making criminal threats and deadlocked on assault, though \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/09/kamala-harris-prosecuted-mentally-ill-woman-police-shot-democratic-presidential-campaign-san-francisco/\">11 of 12 jurors\u003c/a> voted for acquittal. Sheehan sued San Francisco, settling for $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If (Harris) actually looked at it and said, ‘This is a righteous case, I want to go after a mentally ill woman who was shot,’ then you question that decision,” Laurie Levenson, a criminal law professor at LA’s Loyola Law School \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/09/kamala-harris-prosecuted-mentally-ill-woman-police-shot-democratic-presidential-campaign-san-francisco/\">told CalMatters\u003c/a>. “If she didn’t know about it, then you question her management skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Harris vs. a ‘predatory’ for-profit college\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a 2013 U.S. Justice Department investigation turned up evidence that the for-profit Corinthian Colleges were \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2013-oct-10-la-fi-mo-corinthian-colleges-kamala-harris-lawsuit-20131010-story.html\">targeting “isolated” people\u003c/a> who were “unable to see and plan well for the future” while falsely promising prospective students job placement rates as high as 100%, it caught the eye of Kamala Harris. As California’s new attorney general, she sued them, alleging false advertising and deceptive marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Ana-based company had purchased several private for-profit colleges that were in financial trouble, including at least three in California. By 2010, it had enrolled more than 110,000 students at 105 campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, a number of Corinthian students told the U.S. Education Department that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-and-attorney-general-kamala-harris-announce-findings-investigation-wyotech-and-everest-programs\">schools weren’t placing them in jobs\u003c/a> at the rates Corinthian had promised, leaving them saddled with student debt. The Office of Federal Student Aid forced the schools to stop any mergers, purchases of new schools or offering new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said the schools were targeting some of California’s most vulnerable prospective students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The predatory scheme devised by executives at Corinthian Colleges, Inc. is unconscionable,” Harris \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-files-suit-alleged-profit-college-predatory\">said in 2013\u003c/a>. “Designed to rake in profits and mislead investors, they targeted some of our state’s most particularly vulnerable people—including low-income, single mothers and veterans returning from combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2016, Harris won a default judgment against Corinthian for $1.1 billion; the company never answered Harris’ legal complaint, and its lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Corinthian%20Final%20Judgment_1.pdf\">didn’t appear in court on the day of the verdict.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the U.S. Department of Education discharged \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/education-department-approves-58-billion-group-discharge-cancel-all-remaining-loans-560000-borrowers-who-attended-corinthian-colleges\">$5.8 billion in student loan debt\u003c/a> to 560,000 borrowers who paid to attend Corinthian Colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could have jeopardized the deal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-to-receive-more-than-20-billion-from-mortgage-settlement/\">but her brinkmanship\u003c/a> worked: The banks kicked in a lot more, allowing California to collect about $20 billion from \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-secures-18-billion-california-commitment\">an initial settlement offer of $4 billion.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement meant Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. collectively reduced $12 billion in principal on loans or offered short sales to about 250,000 California homeowners who owed more on their mortgages than their houses were worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of that negotiation and settlement became \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/kamala-harris-stood-up-to-big-banks-with-mixed-results-for-consumers-in-crisis-idUSKCN1SF0Z4/\">a key part\u003c/a> of Harris’ political narrative, especially during her first candidacy for president in the 2020 Democratic primaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the shine has somewhat worn off that victory in the years since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/finance/harris-says-she-rescued-california-homeowners-hurt-by-the-financial-crisis-the-reality-is-more-complex-0b38ffbc\">Wall Street Journal analysis\u003c/a> of the settlement found that, though Harris wanted to use the settlement money to reduce mortgage principals, about half the settlement went to banks that wrote off the mortgages on homes that had already been abandoned. Each Californian with a defaulted mortgage got a check for $1,400, which the state suggested it could use to help pay a month’s worth of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another $4.7 billion was used to reduce debt on second mortgages, often home equity credit lines. Only about $4.5 billion was used to lower debt on primary mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/business/how-kamala-harris-finessed-a-foreclosure-deal-for-california.html\">told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that in a homicide case, “you’re talking about something where the body’s cold. So the conversation is about punishment, it’s about restitution. This was not that. Every day, there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. When Harris defended the death penalty she opposes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Julia Miller’s husband found her body on Aug. 25, 1992, she had been bound with a telephone cord and stabbed to death. She had two knives still in her neck. There were pieces of three other knives near her body. There was a rag stuffed in her mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence immediately pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-jones-ernest-33266\">Miller’s daughter’s boyfriend\u003c/a>, Ernest Dewayne Jones, who had already served six years in state prison for raping his previous girlfriend’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela Miller, Juila’s daughter, told the court, “That bastard needs to be sentenced to death.” A judge agreed, and Jones was sent to California’s death row. But Pamela Miller told an\u003cem> LA Times\u003c/em> reporter that the sentencing was pointless because of how rarely executions were carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 20 years later, while Jones awaited execution, \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/CarneyOrder.pdf\">a federal judge overturned the sentence, declaring\u003c/a> California’s death penalty was unconstitutional because of the “inordinate and unpredictable period of delay” before execution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris — despite her own personal opposition to the death penalty and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-death-penalty-appeal-20140821-story.html\">over the objections of death penalty opponents\u003c/a> — went to court to defend it. “I am appealing the court’s decision because it is not supported by the law,” \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-statement-appeal-court-ruling-california\">Harris said in 2014\u003c/a>, “and it undermines important protections that our courts provide to defendants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She prevailed, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/uk/us-appeals-court-rejects-challenge-to-california-death-penalty-idUSKCN0T12B9/\">reinstated Jones’ death sentence\u003c/a>. In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/03/gavin-newsom-halts-executions-california/\">moratorium on executions\u003c/a>, shuttering San Quentin’s death chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. When Harris refused to defend a same-sex marriage ban\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For 29 days in early 2004, San Francisco issued more than 4,000 marriage licenses. Then-mayor Newsom had decided to allow same-sex couples to marry three weeks into his first term; the number of people \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Newsom-was-central-to-same-sex-marriage-saga-3186381.php\">calling City Hall\u003c/a> temporarily knocked out its phone lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weddings were, technically, against the law. Newsom’s office expected an immediate injunction after the first wedding, but it didn’t come for a month. Among those who officiated weddings during that 29-day blitz was the city’s district attorney, Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most joyful (moments of my career) was performing the marriages in 2004. Truly joyful,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-marks-20-years-122723615.html\">Harris told The Advocate\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5685429\">nullified all of the marriages\u003c/a> in April 2004, and voters then approved Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When same-sex couples challenged the ballot measure all the way to the nation’s highest court, then-Attorney General Harris \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-statement-prop-8-arguments\">refused to defend it\u003c/a>, saying it was unconstitutional. “The Supreme Court has described marriage as a fundamental right 14 times since 1888,” Harris said in 2013. “The time has come for this right to be afforded to every citizen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2013-jun-28-la-me-ln-gay-marriage-resumes-20130628-story.html\">Harris officiated the first wedding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. Cheap prison labor, defended by Harris’ office\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris read a news story one day in 2014 and discovered that attorneys at the state Justice Department she was heading had \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-federal-judges-order-state-to-release-more-prisoners-20141114-story.html\">argued against the release\u003c/a> of minimum-security prisoners because of their value to the state labor pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, at least, is how she explained it in an interview with Buzzfeed News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will be very candid with you because I saw that article this morning, and I was shocked, and I’m looking into it to see if the way it was characterized in the paper is actually how it occurred in court,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adamserwer/some-lawyers-just-want-to-see-the-world-burn\">Harris told BuzzFeed News in a 2014 interview\u003c/a>. “I was very troubled by what I read. I just need to find out what did we actually say in court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inmates working in prisons as groundskeepers, janitors and cooks earned between \u003ca href=\"https://documents.latimes.com/inmate-wages/\">8 and 37 cents per hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judicial panel overseeing California’s overcrowded prison system had ordered the state to increase the sentence reductions minimum-security inmates earned for participating in rehabilitation and education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, California Justice Department attorneys had a different view, arguing that prisons needed cheap inmate labor to keep functioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation — a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adamserwer/some-lawyers-just-want-to-see-the-world-burn\">Justice Department attorneys wrote\u003c/a> in a September 2014 filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The argument, later disavowed by Harris, was part of her office’s frequent conflicts with the three-judge panel overseeing the prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ attorney general’s office “continually equivocated regarding the facts and the law,” the three-judge panel \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/\">wrote in 2013\u003c/a>. “This court would, therefore, be within its rights to issue an order to show cause and institute contempt proceedings immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judges said they didn’t do so because that might further delay the state’s release of nonviolent prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>9. Harris, her lawyers and a fake confession\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Kern County prosecutor invented two lines of incriminating testimony in a defendant’s 2013 deposition and sent the faked transcript to the defendant’s public defender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phony lines read like a confession from defendant Efrain Velasco-Palacios and would have changed the potential charges of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child to penetrative sex with a child — meaning a conviction could trigger a life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the public defender discovered the fabrication, he successfully \u003ca href=\"https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1695398.html\">argued to get the case dismissed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Harris’ Justice Department appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their argument: The charges shouldn’t have been dismissed because, while the prosecutor did fake the lines, he didn’t physically assault Velasco-Palacios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dismissal is an appropriate sanction for government misconduct that is egregious enough to prejudice a defendant’s constitutional rights,” the California Court of Appeals found in 2015. “On appeal, however, the People dispute that (the prosecutor’s) misconduct was outrageous or conscience shocking in a constitutional sense, as it was not physically brutal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appellate court justices said it found “no support” for that argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2193px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit outfit expresses herself with her hands behind a podium with the California flag in the background.\" width=\"2193\" height=\"1461\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839.jpg 2193w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24216054883839-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2193px) 100vw, 2193px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former California Attorney General Kamala Harris gives her first news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 30, 2010. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/The Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If Harris really thinks that knowingly producing a fraudulent document to secure an illicit advantage isn’t ‘outrageous,’ then perhaps she slept through her legal ethics courses,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/08/justice-honesty-government-prosecutor-column/24611623/\">wrote Glenn Harlan Reynolds\u003c/a>, a University of Tennessee law professor, in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/228691\">Robert Murray\u003c/a>, the prosecutor who filed the false transcript, \u003ca href=\"https://www.statebarcourt.ca.gov/Portals/2/documents/opinions/Murray.doc\">would later describe\u003c/a> his actions to the State Bar Court as a joke and a prank. 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That’s an improvement of 23 percentage points for Harris over Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-age_final.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12000364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-age_final.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-age_final.png 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-age_final-800x586.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-age_final-1020x747.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-age_final-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-age_final-1536x1125.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Black voters, who supported the Biden-Harris ticket by 58% to 23%, now favor Harris-Walz by 74% to 15%, an uptick of 16 percentage points toward the Democratic nominee. Latino voters also favor Harris by 10 percentage points more than they did Biden. She leads Trump 58% to 34%, compared with Biden’s 48% to 35% edge in the February IGS poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Prez-preference-by-race.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12000405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Prez-preference-by-race.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Prez-preference-by-race.png 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Prez-preference-by-race-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Prez-preference-by-race-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Prez-preference-by-race-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Prez-preference-by-race-1536x1025.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Schickler, co-director of IGS, said Harris is benefitting from voter enthusiasm following Biden’s departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It says that there was a pent-up demand among a lot of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters for another choice, for somebody to unify around,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only has Harris improved the Democrats’ position against the Republican presidential ticket, but she’s also enjoying a big jump in her own approval rating. In previous IGS surveys, California voters showed tepid support for Harris. However, in this poll, 58% of all voters view her favorably, while 40% have an unfavorable view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think she’s rallied the kind of support of many party members who just hadn’t had a real opinion of her before and hadn’t seen her in action this way,” Schickler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bump in support for the Democratic ticket transcends demographics and party registration. Not only do 90% of Democrats support the Harris-Walz ticket — compared to 79% for Biden-Harris in the February IGS poll — but independent or “no party preference” voters have also swung Harris’ way. In the February survey, 25% of independent voters were undecided. 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By a 2 to 1 margin, voters have an unfavorable view of Vance, whose earlier comments on people without children and “childless cat ladies” have had him in hot water for weeks. By comparison, 56% of voters are “enthusiastic” about Walz and another 25% are “satisfied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing voters agree on across the board: 88% said Biden’s decision to drop out of the race was good for the country, while just 4% think it was bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ three-week run of positive coverage, combined with Trump’s inability to tarnish the vice president’s luster, has reportedly left the former president fuming. But Schickler said Republicans are surely preparing to launch negative ads against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump campaign will certainly try to heighten fears about Harris, and certainly, her race and gender may be implicated in some of those efforts,” he said. “But at least from what we’ve seen so far, Harris has been quite successful in essentially getting the momentum and the kind of positive energy from this historic candidacy while not raising the kind of backlash that many people fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If voter enthusiasm remains high, candidates down the ballot will benefit, Schickler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that we see Democrats energized, at least on an even footing with Republicans when it comes to (voter) turnout, that could make a decisive difference in the battle to control Congress,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats hope to flip at least four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives while also defending an open seat in Orange County currently held by Rep. 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Now, just 9% are, and nearly all those who made a decision went for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-party.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12000208\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-party.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-party.png 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-party-800x499.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-party-1020x636.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-party-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/by-party-1536x958.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s running mate isn’t helping his ticket. 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"content": "\u003cp>Seven hundred people packed into a ballroom at the iconic Fairmont Hotel on Sunday to hear from Vice President Kamala Harris at a fundraiser that reportedly hauled in more than $12 million for her presidential bid and attracted some of the region’s biggest names in politics, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Harris’s first visit back to the city where she got her start in politics since her presidential campaign unexpectedly launched three weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will win this election,” said Harris as she stood in front of a blue “Harris- Walz” sign, flanked by the U.S. and California flags. “And we do not have a day to waste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In attendance was a long roster of elected officials, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and Rep. Barbara Lee — and other civic and business leaders, like Giants President Larry Baer and former Walt Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. Katzenberg is a co-chair of Harris’ campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris acknowledged Newsom and Breed from the stage, as well as Reps. Barbara Lee and Jared Huffman — and Oakland congressional candidate Lateefah Simon, who’s running for Lee’s seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the vice president spent much of her speech stressing what’s at stake this November and didn’t hold back when discussing her opponents and their plans. She framed it as a fight for freedoms — to vote, to be safe from gun violence, to love freely, and to have control over one’s own body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that if Donald Trump were to win this election, he would sign a national abortion ban,” she said. “If a national abortion ban is in play, California, and many other states that have protected that right, will not be immune.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris promised to put “middle-class families and working-class families first,” declaring that “when the middle class is strong, our whole nation is strong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And what we know is, while we are focused on a future with optimism and with a sense of yes, ambition, about what is possible, Donald Trump has a different plan,” she said. “Just look at his \u003ca href=\"https://www.project2025.org/\">Project 2025\u003c/a> agenda.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"presidential-election\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris was referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">the 900-page Project 2025 plan created by the conservative Heritage Foundation,\u003c/a> which calls for consolidating presidential power, sidelining critics and pursuing a long list of right-wing policy priorities. Democrats have seized on the plan while Trump has tried to distance himself from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning toward Pelosi, who was seated in the audience, Harris went on, to laughter, “Nancy, I just joke sometimes that — can you believe that they actually put that thing in writing? I mean, they had the gall to put it, like — it’s bound, and then they distributed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets for the event ranged from $3,300 to $500,000. In addition to the who’s who of Bay Area Democratic politicians and donors, it attracted dozens of wealthy Democrats eager to support a potentially history-making presidential ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendees began showing up hours before Harris took the stage, lining up in the fog along California Street for the security queue. The crowd milled around under giant crystal chandeliers, sipping coffee and mimosas while they waited for the event to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris was introduced by Pelosi, who praised Harris and stressed the work ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She makes us all so proud. She brings us so much joy,” Pelosi said. “Personally, I know Kamala is a person of great strength, great faith. … She knows the issues. She knows the strategy. She has gotten an enormous amount done working with Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holly Ward attended the fundraiser and said afterward she was particularly struck by one thing Harris said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re voting for a country of freedom and compassion and the rule of law. And I just thought, that’s right. No one is above the law,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in attendance: San Francisco Board of Supervisors president and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin. He went to elementary school with Harris in Berkeley more than 50 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has laid out a very clear case for what is before American voters and what the choices are, and has clearly shown that she is strong enough and smart enough and experienced enough to lead America forward and not go backward,” he said after the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over 100 protesters marched from Union Square up the steep hills to the Fairmont, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel and a cease-fire to what they repeatedly referred to as the genocide in Gaza. Protesters, shouting chants through bullhorns, accused Harris of being a “killer” for her and Biden’s ongoing support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999796\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 100 protesters marched to the Fairmont Hotel on Aug. 11, 2024, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Vice President Kamala Harris was at the Fairmont Hotel to fundraise in her first San Francisco event since the unexpected launch of her presidential campaign three weeks ago. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rami Abdelkarim, a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-releases-35-billion-israel-spend-us-weapons-military-equipment-cnn-reports-2024-08-09/\">the Biden Administration’s recent approval of $3.5 billion in aid to Israel\u003c/a> is a consistent pattern seen “throughout the last 10 months of this genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our demands are unignorable. We’ve been in the streets for 10 months. Every massacre, every time hundreds of Palestinians are killed, we’re in the streets demanding an arms embargo,” he said. “At every single rally, [Harris] says she wants a cease-fire, but her words are empty. Her promises are empty unless she completely cuts ties with Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Khoury, a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, criticized the fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris on Aug. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/10/harris-tells-pro-palestine-protesters-now-is-time-for-ceasefire-in-gaza\">Arizona on Saturday\u003c/a>, Harris told protesters at her rally that “now is the time to get a cease-fire deal and get the hostage deal done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the microphone on Sunday before marching to the hotel, Omar Khoury — also a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement — said while Harris was fundraising with tickets up to $500,000 “our working class and poor people are suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can they say they care about the working class people when we know the true agenda behind Democratic establishment, behind the Republican establishment, and behind the U.S. Empire as a whole. It’s shameful,” Khoury said. “So we’re here after 300 days of genocide to show that whether it’s Kamala Harris in office or anybody else who’s supporting the Israeli genocide, we are the people, and we hold the U.S. empire to account.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In addition to the who’s who of Bay Area Democratic politicians and donors, it attracted dozens of wealthy Democrats eager to support a potentially history-making presidential ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendees began showing up hours before Harris took the stage, lining up in the fog along California Street for the security queue. The crowd milled around under giant crystal chandeliers, sipping coffee and mimosas while they waited for the event to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris was introduced by Pelosi, who praised Harris and stressed the work ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She makes us all so proud. She brings us so much joy,” Pelosi said. “Personally, I know Kamala is a person of great strength, great faith. … She knows the issues. She knows the strategy. She has gotten an enormous amount done working with Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holly Ward attended the fundraiser and said afterward she was particularly struck by one thing Harris said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re voting for a country of freedom and compassion and the rule of law. And I just thought, that’s right. No one is above the law,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in attendance: San Francisco Board of Supervisors president and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin. He went to elementary school with Harris in Berkeley more than 50 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has laid out a very clear case for what is before American voters and what the choices are, and has clearly shown that she is strong enough and smart enough and experienced enough to lead America forward and not go backward,” he said after the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over 100 protesters marched from Union Square up the steep hills to the Fairmont, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel and a cease-fire to what they repeatedly referred to as the genocide in Gaza. Protesters, shouting chants through bullhorns, accused Harris of being a “killer” for her and Biden’s ongoing support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999796\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 100 protesters marched to the Fairmont Hotel on Aug. 11, 2024, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Vice President Kamala Harris was at the Fairmont Hotel to fundraise in her first San Francisco event since the unexpected launch of her presidential campaign three weeks ago. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rami Abdelkarim, a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-releases-35-billion-israel-spend-us-weapons-military-equipment-cnn-reports-2024-08-09/\">the Biden Administration’s recent approval of $3.5 billion in aid to Israel\u003c/a> is a consistent pattern seen “throughout the last 10 months of this genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our demands are unignorable. We’ve been in the streets for 10 months. Every massacre, every time hundreds of Palestinians are killed, we’re in the streets demanding an arms embargo,” he said. “At every single rally, [Harris] says she wants a cease-fire, but her words are empty. Her promises are empty unless she completely cuts ties with Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Khoury, a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, criticized the fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris on Aug. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/10/harris-tells-pro-palestine-protesters-now-is-time-for-ceasefire-in-gaza\">Arizona on Saturday\u003c/a>, Harris told protesters at her rally that “now is the time to get a cease-fire deal and get the hostage deal done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the microphone on Sunday before marching to the hotel, Omar Khoury — also a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement — said while Harris was fundraising with tickets up to $500,000 “our working class and poor people are suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The duo plans events in North Carolina and Georgia before rallies tonight in Arizona and Saturday in Nevada, and they plan to close out the week in California with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-tim-walz-to-host-fundraiser-in-san-francisco-at-glitzy-downtown-hotel/ar-AA1ou3gL?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">high-dollar San Francisco fundraiser\u003c/a> on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harris campaign has jolted the Democratic base in the three weeks since President Joe Biden dropped out and endorsed her, bringing in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/07/kamala-harris-donald-trump-campaign-money-california/\">record amounts of money\u003c/a> and drawing massive audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California has sent three Republicans to the White House, it has never produced a Democratic president. Several tried — including former Gov. Jerry Brown, whom critics nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam,” and Harris herself in 2019. Some political strategists blame the sorry track record \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/25/california-long-a-conservative-foil-is-a-likely-trump-target-with-kamala-harris-as-rival/\">in part on the Golden State’s liberal image\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can Harris finally break through in 2024?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reach the White House, she may need to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2020/08/kamala-harris-trump-california-san-francisco/\">overcome any California-ness qualms\u003c/a> and must aggressively defend her California record against intense attacks from former President Donald Trump’s campaign. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1821623285605384623\">In a new one-minute ad\u003c/a> released Thursday, Harris leaned heavily into her Oakland upbringing and her California prosecutor career. She also agreed to the first debate with Trump on Sept. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ California roots are already under attack. Labeling her as a “California radical” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/25/california-long-a-conservative-foil-is-a-likely-trump-target-with-kamala-harris-as-rival/\">San Francisco liberal\u003c/a>,” Republicans have hammered her stances, particularly on crime and immigration. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the GOP nominee for vice president, is trailing Harris’ travels this week and holding press events to criticize her. Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-looking-to-reassert-himself-in-2024-race-dares-harris-on-debates-and-interviews/ar-AA1otMdJ?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">told reporters at Mar-a-Lago\u003c/a> on Thursday: “She destroyed the state of California along with Gov. Gavin Newscum,” he said, using his pejorative for Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/harris-shifts-policy-stances/index.html\">backed away\u003c/a> from some of her more liberal campaign promises from 2019 and no longer supports a fracking ban or a single-payer health care system. But she must also navigate \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/05/kamala-harris-progressive-left-pressure-00172535\">criticism from progressive Democrats\u003c/a>, who want her to go further than Biden on abortion and climate policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her California ties have given some undecided voters pause, but those connections are likely not the deciding factor, according to 20 voters, consultants, officials and political experts interviewed by CalMatters in some of Michigan and Arizona’s most purple districts. And some voters and experts argued that Walz’s Midwestern roots could help balance the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will understand through the Walz lens that Kamala, it doesn’t matter where she’s from geographically,” said Democrat Carl Marlinga, who is running for Congress in Michigan’s competitive Macomb County. “Maybe she says things a little differently, but she wouldn’t have picked a guy like us if she didn’t want to connect with people like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Taylor, mayor of Sterling Heights, outside his office at City Hall in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up Republican in Michigan, Michael Taylor knows well a common Midwestern conservative sentiment toward California: His mother often told him the state is a “hellscape” detached from the rest of America, with rampant crime, illegal migrants and unfettered homelessness — even though he said he disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of … media portrayal that the West Coast liberals are just out of touch and don’t really know what’s going on in the heartland,” said Taylor, mayor of Sterling Heights since 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His blue-collar city of 132,000 is home to \u003ca href=\"https://sterlingheights.gov/1516/Automotive-Advanced-Manufacturing#:~:text=Sterling%20Heights%20is%20home%20to,and%20the%20Ford%20Axle%20Plant.\">four automotive assembly plants\u003c/a>. Thursday, Harris spoke at a Detroit rally hosted by the United Auto Workers, which \u003ca href=\"https://uaw.org/uaw-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-ahead-of-mass-rally-in-detroit/\">endorsed her last week\u003c/a>, citing her “proven track record of delivering for the working class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling Heights is in Macomb County, the quintessential swing county where disillusioned Democrats ditched their party for Republican President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. The county went for Democrat Barack Obama twice before favoring Trump in 2016 and 2020. Taylor, who now identifies with neither major party, supported Trump in 2016 but voted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2020/03/11/sterling-heights-mayor-michael-taylor-joe-biden-primary/5021236002/\">Biden in 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is perceived as elitist and progressive and seems distant to a lot of Macomb County voters, sometimes even himself, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sense that from talking to Republicans. There’s this conflict between the real America and the America of the little blue islands along the coasts,” he said. “When you talk to some people, they almost act like California is a different country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true for Republican Cheryl Costantino, a teacher in Macomb County’s Shelby Township: “To us, California is like its own weird, liberal place where people poop on the sidewalks and live in tents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClellan Grote, a registered independent and nuclear engineer from Gilbert, Arizona, hesitates to vote for Harris. Although he supported Trump twice and still favors his policies, Grote said he must vote against Trump’s vitriol. But he’s reluctant to support Harris, partly due to the liberal image of California and Newsom, who Grote also calls “Newscum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That perception represents a “key vulnerability” that Harris must overcome to win moderate voters, said Matt Grossmann, a political science professor at Michigan State University. Historically, Black and female candidates are considered more liberal than white men, he said, and Harris’ history representing a largely Democratic state, particularly in the U.S. Senate, may cement that impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are hoping to cash in on that exact sentiment. In a National Republican Senatorial Committee memo, executive director Jason Thielman deemed Harris a “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/rbeggin/status/1815469097045692658/photo/1\">radical” from San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s too soon to tell if those attacks have dented her support, Grossmann noted that down-ballot Democrats in swing states \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-06-27/is-nancy-pelosi-worth-the-trouble\">have suffered\u003c/a> in previous elections\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>when tied to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/17/nancy-pelosi-democrats-california\">former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco\u003c/a>. “That gives (us) a reason to expect that the same attacks would be successful against Harris,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person who may help counter those critiques is Walz, whom Democrats are counting on to help connect with Midwesterners with his rural roots and his background as a gun owner, hunter, public school teacher and veteran. The Trump campaign, on other hand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-campaign-blasts-tim-walz-as-west-coast-wannabe/ar-AA1olntU?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">quickly tried to paint Walz\u003c/a> in an emailed statement as a “West Coast wannabe” who wants to spread “California’s dangerously liberal agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walz is “a perfect description of a Democrat who could win in Macomb County,” said Marlinga, a self-described moderate Democrat who lost by a razor-thin margin to Republican U.S. Rep. John James in 2022 and is set for a rematch this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlinga called the Minnesota governor a “positive populist” who is easy-going and approachable. Walz called Trump and Vance “weird,” just like an “ordinary guy … sitting down for dinner at a deli somewhere” would, Marlinga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999713\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of Democratic U.S. Presidents are visible behind Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as they arrive at a campaign rally at United Auto Workers Local 900 on Aug. 8, 2024, in Wayne, Michigan. Kamala Harris and her newly selected running mate, Tim Walz, are campaigning across the country this week. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We like conservation, we like sports, we like fishing, we like hunting,” he said. “We’re not like the Democrats in New York and California because we’re not here to grab your guns and to change your life and to preach to you about things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Republican attacks on Harris, her record on crime is coming under intense scrutiny, as she leans into her prosecutor background in contrast with Trump — a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0\">convicted felon\u003c/a> who was found in a separate civil case to have sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She prosecuted sex predators. He is one,” an ad for Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are portraying Harris as a soft-on-crime prosecutor from California, especially as San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/04/california-crime-oakland-san-francisco-businesses-residents/\">now under the national spotlight for its homelessness crisis and retail theft\u003c/a> — so much so that even its Democratic mayor, London Breed, is backing a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2024/prop36-110524.pdf\">November ballot measure\u003c/a> to enhance penalties on petty crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump campaign is trying to associate Harris with previous California ballot measures that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/29/kamala-harris-california-criminal-justice-00171490\">reduced penalties for petty crimes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-harris-office-prop-47-gun-toll-20141104-story.html\">granted earlier releases to nonviolent offenders\u003c/a>. Voters approved those measures during her tenure as the state attorney general, even though she remained neutral on them, and her record on crime is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/kamala-harris-crime-views-policies-e457aefb\">more nuanced\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack resonates with some Michigan Republicans, including Robert Wojtowicz, who is running for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.jsonline.com/elections/results/race/2022-11-08-state_house-MI-23881/\">competitive state House seat\u003c/a> in Macomb County.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"kamala-harris\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While courting voters at a Clinton Township polling station on Tuesday, Wojtowicz associated Harris with California’s recent increases in some\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/04/california-crime-oakland-san-francisco-businesses-residents/\"> violent and property crimes\u003c/a>, even though she left to serve in the U.S. Senate in 2017. He argued the state’s prosecutors “are not prosecuting … serious crimes,” echoing California conservatives who are advocating for tougher penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costantino, the Shelby Township teacher, noted that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/08/03/kamala-harris-prosecutor-district-attorney-record\">the number of violent crimes in San Francisco rose\u003c/a> during Harris’ early years as district attorney. The city’s current struggle with crime is something Harris still should own, Costantino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that she’s from California should make her more sensitive to those issues, not less sensitive,” Costantino said. “Just because she goes to Washington doesn’t mean that she should be removed from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most of the Michigan voters interviewed by CalMatters spoke more about policies from her time as vice president, not while she served in California. While conservative voters blamed the Biden-Harris administration for increases in gas prices, illegal border crossings and national debt, Democrats celebrated her for advocating for abortion rights — \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-proposal-3-supporting-abortion-rights-wins-big\">an issue\u003c/a> that turned out a historic number of Michigan voters in recent elections and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-women-score-big-poised-key-leadership-legislature\">helped flip the state Legislature blue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some Michigan voters — both Republicans and Democrats — said they did not know Harris for her time in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Koch is a 58-year-old electric operator and a self-described “Christian conservative” in \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigans-political-geography-shifting-these-interactive-maps-show-how\">Clinton Township\u003c/a>, where Biden won by less than 1 percentage point in 2020 after Trump won it by 4 points in 2016. He called California a “mismanaged” state, blaming Newsom for the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">budget deficit\u003c/a>. “He’s just a populist guy, good hair, but I don’t see him governing,” Koch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris’ California roots are “secondary” compared to her policy stances, Koch said. “She could be from New Mexico or Washington,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamela Washington, a 55-year-old Democratic voter, also does not associate Harris with California. She said she only began to notice Harris when she was in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter whether she’s from California, Hawaii, Timbuktu. Doesn’t matter. It just blinds us from … what connects us and what keeps us wanting to make this country just better every day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man in prayer at the American Muslim Center in Dearborn, Michigan, on Aug. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>( Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among Michigan’s Arab community, Harris’ California roots fade even further into the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boasting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/09/26/census-data-shows-arab-american-population-in-dearborn-now-makes-up-majority-of-people-living-there/\">nation’s second-largest Middle Eastern population\u003c/a>, Michigan is home to Dearborn, the \u003ca href=\"https://alumni.umich.edu/education-gateway/a-brief-history-of-dearborn-michigan-the-first-arab-american-majority-city-in-the-us/\">first and the largest Arab-American majority\u003c/a> city in America. Democratic voters here, partly angered by Biden’s support for Israel in the Gaza war, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-2024-results-13-democrats-uncommitted-will-it-matter-biden\">overwhelmingly voted “uncommitted” over Biden\u003c/a> in the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s rally, a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/bystellayu/status/1821339564327260598\">small group of pro-Palestinian student protesters\u003c/a> from the University of Michigan briefly interrupted \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kelsientaggart/status/1821339127444369494\">Harris’ speech\u003c/a> before security escorted them out. They chanted: “Kamala Kamala you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems that the number one driving factor in this race will be the Gaza issue. People are not looking at much else,” said Qarim Abdullah, an imam at the American Muslim Center in Dearborn since 2018. A sense of “betrayal” by Biden’s Gaza policies, he said, has driven some to vote for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999709\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qarim Abdullah, an Imam at American Muslim Center, stands in the prayer room of the mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, on Aug. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in Arizona — a traditionally-red Sun Belt state that Biden narrowly flipped in 2020 — Harris’ record on illegal immigration at the border will come into laser focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grand Canyon State’s border with Mexico makes immigration a top concern among its voters. The state’s GOP-led Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/controversial-immigration-measure-goes-arizona-ballots-biden-trump-rcna152226\">placed a controversial measure on the November ballot\u003c/a> that would allow state and local law enforcement to crack down on illegal border crossings, even though courts deem it a federal power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris — portrayed by Republicans as a liberal “border czar” lenient on illegal migrants — has gone on the offense, tapping into her background \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-talking-immigration-allies-think-political-advantage-rcna165211\">cracking down on transnational gang activities\u003c/a> as California’s attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that job, I walked underground tunnels between the United States and Mexico,” she said at a rally in Atlanta. “I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on other issues, Harris’ California brand could prove to be an advantage, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">especially abortion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arizona Democrats hope \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/politics/kamala-harris-abortion-rights/index.html\">her outspokenness on abortion rights\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/arizona-abortion-ballot-petitions-83cb053919be342d7bbb60217129fe49\">another proposal that could also land on the state’s November ballot\u003c/a> — appeals to independent voters and disenfranchised Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always been an advocate for women’s health care, and she’s a woman. She gets us,” Patti O’Neil, chairperson of the Maricopa County Democratic Party, said of Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ support for abortion rights won over Karla Grote, a developer in Gilbert and a former Republican who re-registered as an independent after becoming disillusioned with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t hate her policies. I don’t hate her thought patterns. Well, she’s pro-choice! That’s a big one for me,” Karla Grote shouted while talking to her husband at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, waiting for a delayed flight back home to Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody miss that?” McClellan Grote asked while rolling his eyes, drawing a few chuckles from passengers nearby.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California has sent three Republicans to the White House, it has never produced a Democratic president. Several tried — including former Gov. Jerry Brown, whom critics nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam,” and Harris herself in 2019. Some political strategists blame the sorry track record \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/25/california-long-a-conservative-foil-is-a-likely-trump-target-with-kamala-harris-as-rival/\">in part on the Golden State’s liberal image\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can Harris finally break through in 2024?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reach the White House, she may need to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2020/08/kamala-harris-trump-california-san-francisco/\">overcome any California-ness qualms\u003c/a> and must aggressively defend her California record against intense attacks from former President Donald Trump’s campaign. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1821623285605384623\">In a new one-minute ad\u003c/a> released Thursday, Harris leaned heavily into her Oakland upbringing and her California prosecutor career. She also agreed to the first debate with Trump on Sept. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ California roots are already under attack. Labeling her as a “California radical” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/25/california-long-a-conservative-foil-is-a-likely-trump-target-with-kamala-harris-as-rival/\">San Francisco liberal\u003c/a>,” Republicans have hammered her stances, particularly on crime and immigration. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the GOP nominee for vice president, is trailing Harris’ travels this week and holding press events to criticize her. Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-looking-to-reassert-himself-in-2024-race-dares-harris-on-debates-and-interviews/ar-AA1otMdJ?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">told reporters at Mar-a-Lago\u003c/a> on Thursday: “She destroyed the state of California along with Gov. Gavin Newscum,” he said, using his pejorative for Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/harris-shifts-policy-stances/index.html\">backed away\u003c/a> from some of her more liberal campaign promises from 2019 and no longer supports a fracking ban or a single-payer health care system. But she must also navigate \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/05/kamala-harris-progressive-left-pressure-00172535\">criticism from progressive Democrats\u003c/a>, who want her to go further than Biden on abortion and climate policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her California ties have given some undecided voters pause, but those connections are likely not the deciding factor, according to 20 voters, consultants, officials and political experts interviewed by CalMatters in some of Michigan and Arizona’s most purple districts. And some voters and experts argued that Walz’s Midwestern roots could help balance the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will understand through the Walz lens that Kamala, it doesn’t matter where she’s from geographically,” said Democrat Carl Marlinga, who is running for Congress in Michigan’s competitive Macomb County. “Maybe she says things a little differently, but she wouldn’t have picked a guy like us if she didn’t want to connect with people like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/michaeltaylor-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Taylor, mayor of Sterling Heights, outside his office at City Hall in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up Republican in Michigan, Michael Taylor knows well a common Midwestern conservative sentiment toward California: His mother often told him the state is a “hellscape” detached from the rest of America, with rampant crime, illegal migrants and unfettered homelessness — even though he said he disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of … media portrayal that the West Coast liberals are just out of touch and don’t really know what’s going on in the heartland,” said Taylor, mayor of Sterling Heights since 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His blue-collar city of 132,000 is home to \u003ca href=\"https://sterlingheights.gov/1516/Automotive-Advanced-Manufacturing#:~:text=Sterling%20Heights%20is%20home%20to,and%20the%20Ford%20Axle%20Plant.\">four automotive assembly plants\u003c/a>. Thursday, Harris spoke at a Detroit rally hosted by the United Auto Workers, which \u003ca href=\"https://uaw.org/uaw-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-ahead-of-mass-rally-in-detroit/\">endorsed her last week\u003c/a>, citing her “proven track record of delivering for the working class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling Heights is in Macomb County, the quintessential swing county where disillusioned Democrats ditched their party for Republican President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. The county went for Democrat Barack Obama twice before favoring Trump in 2016 and 2020. Taylor, who now identifies with neither major party, supported Trump in 2016 but voted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2020/03/11/sterling-heights-mayor-michael-taylor-joe-biden-primary/5021236002/\">Biden in 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is perceived as elitist and progressive and seems distant to a lot of Macomb County voters, sometimes even himself, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sense that from talking to Republicans. There’s this conflict between the real America and the America of the little blue islands along the coasts,” he said. “When you talk to some people, they almost act like California is a different country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true for Republican Cheryl Costantino, a teacher in Macomb County’s Shelby Township: “To us, California is like its own weird, liberal place where people poop on the sidewalks and live in tents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClellan Grote, a registered independent and nuclear engineer from Gilbert, Arizona, hesitates to vote for Harris. Although he supported Trump twice and still favors his policies, Grote said he must vote against Trump’s vitriol. But he’s reluctant to support Harris, partly due to the liberal image of California and Newsom, who Grote also calls “Newscum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That perception represents a “key vulnerability” that Harris must overcome to win moderate voters, said Matt Grossmann, a political science professor at Michigan State University. Historically, Black and female candidates are considered more liberal than white men, he said, and Harris’ history representing a largely Democratic state, particularly in the U.S. Senate, may cement that impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are hoping to cash in on that exact sentiment. In a National Republican Senatorial Committee memo, executive director Jason Thielman deemed Harris a “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/rbeggin/status/1815469097045692658/photo/1\">radical” from San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s too soon to tell if those attacks have dented her support, Grossmann noted that down-ballot Democrats in swing states \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-06-27/is-nancy-pelosi-worth-the-trouble\">have suffered\u003c/a> in previous elections\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>when tied to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/17/nancy-pelosi-democrats-california\">former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco\u003c/a>. “That gives (us) a reason to expect that the same attacks would be successful against Harris,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person who may help counter those critiques is Walz, whom Democrats are counting on to help connect with Midwesterners with his rural roots and his background as a gun owner, hunter, public school teacher and veteran. The Trump campaign, on other hand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-campaign-blasts-tim-walz-as-west-coast-wannabe/ar-AA1olntU?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">quickly tried to paint Walz\u003c/a> in an emailed statement as a “West Coast wannabe” who wants to spread “California’s dangerously liberal agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walz is “a perfect description of a Democrat who could win in Macomb County,” said Marlinga, a self-described moderate Democrat who lost by a razor-thin margin to Republican U.S. Rep. John James in 2022 and is set for a rematch this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlinga called the Minnesota governor a “positive populist” who is easy-going and approachable. Walz called Trump and Vance “weird,” just like an “ordinary guy … sitting down for dinner at a deli somewhere” would, Marlinga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999713\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2165424783-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of Democratic U.S. Presidents are visible behind Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as they arrive at a campaign rally at United Auto Workers Local 900 on Aug. 8, 2024, in Wayne, Michigan. Kamala Harris and her newly selected running mate, Tim Walz, are campaigning across the country this week. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We like conservation, we like sports, we like fishing, we like hunting,” he said. “We’re not like the Democrats in New York and California because we’re not here to grab your guns and to change your life and to preach to you about things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Republican attacks on Harris, her record on crime is coming under intense scrutiny, as she leans into her prosecutor background in contrast with Trump — a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0\">convicted felon\u003c/a> who was found in a separate civil case to have sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She prosecuted sex predators. He is one,” an ad for Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are portraying Harris as a soft-on-crime prosecutor from California, especially as San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/04/california-crime-oakland-san-francisco-businesses-residents/\">now under the national spotlight for its homelessness crisis and retail theft\u003c/a> — so much so that even its Democratic mayor, London Breed, is backing a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2024/prop36-110524.pdf\">November ballot measure\u003c/a> to enhance penalties on petty crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump campaign is trying to associate Harris with previous California ballot measures that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/29/kamala-harris-california-criminal-justice-00171490\">reduced penalties for petty crimes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-harris-office-prop-47-gun-toll-20141104-story.html\">granted earlier releases to nonviolent offenders\u003c/a>. Voters approved those measures during her tenure as the state attorney general, even though she remained neutral on them, and her record on crime is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/kamala-harris-crime-views-policies-e457aefb\">more nuanced\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack resonates with some Michigan Republicans, including Robert Wojtowicz, who is running for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.jsonline.com/elections/results/race/2022-11-08-state_house-MI-23881/\">competitive state House seat\u003c/a> in Macomb County.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While courting voters at a Clinton Township polling station on Tuesday, Wojtowicz associated Harris with California’s recent increases in some\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/04/california-crime-oakland-san-francisco-businesses-residents/\"> violent and property crimes\u003c/a>, even though she left to serve in the U.S. Senate in 2017. He argued the state’s prosecutors “are not prosecuting … serious crimes,” echoing California conservatives who are advocating for tougher penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costantino, the Shelby Township teacher, noted that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/08/03/kamala-harris-prosecutor-district-attorney-record\">the number of violent crimes in San Francisco rose\u003c/a> during Harris’ early years as district attorney. The city’s current struggle with crime is something Harris still should own, Costantino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that she’s from California should make her more sensitive to those issues, not less sensitive,” Costantino said. “Just because she goes to Washington doesn’t mean that she should be removed from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most of the Michigan voters interviewed by CalMatters spoke more about policies from her time as vice president, not while she served in California. While conservative voters blamed the Biden-Harris administration for increases in gas prices, illegal border crossings and national debt, Democrats celebrated her for advocating for abortion rights — \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-proposal-3-supporting-abortion-rights-wins-big\">an issue\u003c/a> that turned out a historic number of Michigan voters in recent elections and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-women-score-big-poised-key-leadership-legislature\">helped flip the state Legislature blue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some Michigan voters — both Republicans and Democrats — said they did not know Harris for her time in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Koch is a 58-year-old electric operator and a self-described “Christian conservative” in \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigans-political-geography-shifting-these-interactive-maps-show-how\">Clinton Township\u003c/a>, where Biden won by less than 1 percentage point in 2020 after Trump won it by 4 points in 2016. He called California a “mismanaged” state, blaming Newsom for the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">budget deficit\u003c/a>. “He’s just a populist guy, good hair, but I don’t see him governing,” Koch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris’ California roots are “secondary” compared to her policy stances, Koch said. “She could be from New Mexico or Washington,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamela Washington, a 55-year-old Democratic voter, also does not associate Harris with California. She said she only began to notice Harris when she was in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter whether she’s from California, Hawaii, Timbuktu. Doesn’t matter. It just blinds us from … what connects us and what keeps us wanting to make this country just better every day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man in prayer at the American Muslim Center in Dearborn, Michigan, on Aug. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>( Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among Michigan’s Arab community, Harris’ California roots fade even further into the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boasting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/09/26/census-data-shows-arab-american-population-in-dearborn-now-makes-up-majority-of-people-living-there/\">nation’s second-largest Middle Eastern population\u003c/a>, Michigan is home to Dearborn, the \u003ca href=\"https://alumni.umich.edu/education-gateway/a-brief-history-of-dearborn-michigan-the-first-arab-american-majority-city-in-the-us/\">first and the largest Arab-American majority\u003c/a> city in America. Democratic voters here, partly angered by Biden’s support for Israel in the Gaza war, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-2024-results-13-democrats-uncommitted-will-it-matter-biden\">overwhelmingly voted “uncommitted” over Biden\u003c/a> in the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s rally, a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/bystellayu/status/1821339564327260598\">small group of pro-Palestinian student protesters\u003c/a> from the University of Michigan briefly interrupted \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kelsientaggart/status/1821339127444369494\">Harris’ speech\u003c/a> before security escorted them out. They chanted: “Kamala Kamala you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems that the number one driving factor in this race will be the Gaza issue. People are not looking at much else,” said Qarim Abdullah, an imam at the American Muslim Center in Dearborn since 2018. A sense of “betrayal” by Biden’s Gaza policies, he said, has driven some to vote for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999709\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DearbornMich2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qarim Abdullah, an Imam at American Muslim Center, stands in the prayer room of the mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, on Aug. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in Arizona — a traditionally-red Sun Belt state that Biden narrowly flipped in 2020 — Harris’ record on illegal immigration at the border will come into laser focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grand Canyon State’s border with Mexico makes immigration a top concern among its voters. The state’s GOP-led Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/controversial-immigration-measure-goes-arizona-ballots-biden-trump-rcna152226\">placed a controversial measure on the November ballot\u003c/a> that would allow state and local law enforcement to crack down on illegal border crossings, even though courts deem it a federal power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris — portrayed by Republicans as a liberal “border czar” lenient on illegal migrants — has gone on the offense, tapping into her background \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-talking-immigration-allies-think-political-advantage-rcna165211\">cracking down on transnational gang activities\u003c/a> as California’s attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that job, I walked underground tunnels between the United States and Mexico,” she said at a rally in Atlanta. “I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on other issues, Harris’ California brand could prove to be an advantage, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">especially abortion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arizona Democrats hope \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/politics/kamala-harris-abortion-rights/index.html\">her outspokenness on abortion rights\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/arizona-abortion-ballot-petitions-83cb053919be342d7bbb60217129fe49\">another proposal that could also land on the state’s November ballot\u003c/a> — appeals to independent voters and disenfranchised Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always been an advocate for women’s health care, and she’s a woman. She gets us,” Patti O’Neil, chairperson of the Maricopa County Democratic Party, said of Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ support for abortion rights won over Karla Grote, a developer in Gilbert and a former Republican who re-registered as an independent after becoming disillusioned with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t hate her policies. I don’t hate her thought patterns. Well, she’s pro-choice! That’s a big one for me,” Karla Grote shouted while talking to her husband at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, waiting for a delayed flight back home to Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With the Biden administration facing \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/610322/immigration-leads-reasons-biden-detractors-disapprove.aspx\">low approval ratings on immigration\u003c/a>, and Republicans blaming Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for what they call a “border \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/ca8d0dd5-2f4b-417b-8ed2-9d42b89f5946\">invasion\u003c/a>,” Harris is pushing back, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamD7RueuvA\">spotlighting\u003c/a> in campaign ads and speeches what she says is her history of tough border enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a look at Harris’ record as a public official in California — the state with the largest number and share of immigrants — finds a more nuanced picture. Longtime political observers say her experience as the daughter of immigrants has intertwined with her career as a prosecutor to form a pattern: pro-immigration but tough in enforcing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Morain, a California political reporter who wrote a 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kamalas-Way/Dan-Morain/9781982175771\">biography of Harris\u003c/a>, says her parents took her to their respective home countries of India and Jamaica, where she learned about her roots. And, as high-achieving scholars committed to civil rights, her parents embodied a belief that, with persistence, in America great things are possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With immigration at the core of her own life experience, Harris has a history of supporting immigrant communities and legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But her work in California, including as the state’s attorney general, provides her with opportunities to also tout law enforcement measures she’s taken on the issue. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Harris as DA and AG\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to 2010, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Unlicensed-contractor-charged-in-2570411.php\">went after abusive employers\u003c/a> shortchanging immigrant workers. And she encouraged immigrant communities to feel safe dealing with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/ILLEGALS-CALLED-COURT-S-PROBLEM-3206302.php\">favored turning over juvenile immigrants\u003c/a> arrested for crimes to immigration agents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html\">bucking the San Francisco Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> on how to apply the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information/sanctuary-city-ordinance\">sanctuary ordinance\u003c/a>, which restricted cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That she would take a dim view of people who break the law is in keeping with who she was,” Morain said. “I mean, she’s a prosecutor. That’s what her job was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2016, Harris brought that forceful approach to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-comprehensive-report-transnational\">tackling cross-border crime\u003c/a>. At a presidential campaign rally in Atlanta last month, Harris spotlighted that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country illegally,” she said. “I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonja Diaz worked as policy counsel on the attorney general’s executive staff in those days. She says she saw Harris make that a particular focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She did a lot of work to address the proliferation of transnational criminal organizations, not just with respect to drugs, but also the issue of human trafficking\u003cem>,\u003c/em>” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris built ties with her law enforcement counterparts in Mexico and El Salvador, added Diaz, who now runs a UCLA research lab focused on Latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To do this type of work necessitated partnerships and bilateral relationships that could really move the needle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\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/2193x1234+0+45/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa1%2Fe0%2Fefd82a064a9096fe25770a28b155%2Fap24216054883839.jpg\" alt=\"Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris gives a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 30, 2010.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris gives a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 30, 2010. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when thousands of unaccompanied children began arriving at the border in 2014, she led with humanity, says Diaz. Harris \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-convenes-immigration-advocates-law-firms\">convened\u003c/a> government, philanthropy, nonprofits and corporate law firms, securing tens of millions of dollars so children going into immigration court alone had lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way that she acted was … to identify how we as Californians under her leadership could start to fill the holes in access to justice and representation for these kids,” Diaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“She has stood with us in our worst moments”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Capitol Hill last month, advocates rallied for \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/leading-immigrant-rights-representatives-reintroduce-registry-bill-provide-path\">a bill that would offer a path to citizenship\u003c/a> to long-term undocumented immigrants. At the rally, Angelica Salas, who runs the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, known as CHIRLA, said she and other advocates are energized to have Harris at the top of the Democratic ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know her,” she said. “She comes from California, so she knows the immigrant community. She has stood with us in our worst moments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Donald Trump became president in 2017 and Harris was a new U.S. senator, Salas said Harris met with CHIRLA members, reassuring undocumented immigrants fearful of Trump’s threats of mass deportation that she would fight for them. She also \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/448196-harris-unveils-plan-to-provide-dreamers-a-pathway-to-citizenship/\">stood with Dreamers\u003c/a>, young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, when Trump tried to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Salas says Harris \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/393742-kamala-harris-trump-treatment-of-migrants-is-a-crime-against-humanity/\">did more than speak out\u003c/a> when the Trump administration separated children from migrant parents at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went to detention centers to talk to the mothers whose children had been taken away from them,” she said. “So we have incredible faith that she will be an incredible champion for our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Biden-Harris administration struggles with migration\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now in the White House, Harris has had to wrestle with immigration from another standpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s part of a Biden administration that has been confronted with record numbers of international migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border and attempting to enter the country illegally, often to request asylum. Border enforcement and asylum adjudication agencies have been swamped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed npr-promo-card insettwocolumn\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, President Biden tasked Harris with addressing the “root causes” of migration from three Central American countries that were then the source of most unauthorized migration — a role that Republicans have falsely dubbed “border czar.” Analysts say Harris made some headway on business investment to create jobs, and on promoting the rule of law, but the results of such efforts could be many years in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring down the number of unauthorized border crossings more immediately, the Biden administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/04/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-secure-the-border/\">restricted access to asylum\u003c/a>, among other measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris joined Biden in calling on Congress to pass a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/29/fact-sheet-impact-of-bipartisan-border-agreement-funding-on-border-operations/\">bipartisan bill\u003c/a>, hammered out early this year, that would pour more resources into the Border Patrol and immigration courts, and allow the government to summarily expel people without hearing asylum claims if border encounters reach a certain level. Harris has slammed Trump for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/politics/senate-border-ukraine-israel-aid-vote/index.html\">undercutting Republican support\u003c/a> and tanking the bill’s chances of passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to these policies, many immigrant rights groups have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/2024/06/04/nilc-statement-on-bidens-executive-action-on-the-border/\">sharply criticized Biden\u003c/a> for what they say are moves that override the legal right to ask for protection from persecution. But so far, they’re not attacking Harris in the same way.[aside tag=\"kamala-harris, election\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political observers say that may be because — with the November election approaching — advocates recognize the alternative to a Harris presidency is a return to Trump’s hard-line policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“We’ll see if that works as a political message”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though three-quarters of Americans say they believe the border is either a crisis or a major problem, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx#:~:text=Americans'%20Preferences%20for%20Immigration%20to%20the%20U.S.&text=Trend%20from%201965%20to%202024,highest%20since%2058%25%20in%202001.\">recent Gallup poll\u003c/a>, two-thirds say immigration is good for the country and vast majorities back an earned path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, especially Dreamers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Selee, president of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., says that is the backdrop to a presidential election that offers starkly diverging approaches to immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen the Trump campaign lean into the idea that immigration is bad for the country,” he said. “But actually, most Americans don’t believe that. They’re worried about the border, which is a specific part of the immigration debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selee predicts Harris will try to look for the middle ground, bringing together the two sides of her own life experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to see Vice President Harris talk about immigration as a good thing for the country, because she’s the child of two immigrants, and she understands how important it is for America’s future. And at the same time [she’ll] talk like a prosecutor when she’s talking about the border, specifically,” he said. “We’ll see if that works as a political message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Harris as DA and AG\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to 2010, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Unlicensed-contractor-charged-in-2570411.php\">went after abusive employers\u003c/a> shortchanging immigrant workers. And she encouraged immigrant communities to feel safe dealing with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/ILLEGALS-CALLED-COURT-S-PROBLEM-3206302.php\">favored turning over juvenile immigrants\u003c/a> arrested for crimes to immigration agents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html\">bucking the San Francisco Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> on how to apply the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information/sanctuary-city-ordinance\">sanctuary ordinance\u003c/a>, which restricted cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That she would take a dim view of people who break the law is in keeping with who she was,” Morain said. “I mean, she’s a prosecutor. That’s what her job was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2016, Harris brought that forceful approach to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-comprehensive-report-transnational\">tackling cross-border crime\u003c/a>. At a presidential campaign rally in Atlanta last month, Harris spotlighted that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country illegally,” she said. “I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonja Diaz worked as policy counsel on the attorney general’s executive staff in those days. She says she saw Harris make that a particular focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She did a lot of work to address the proliferation of transnational criminal organizations, not just with respect to drugs, but also the issue of human trafficking\u003cem>,\u003c/em>” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris built ties with her law enforcement counterparts in Mexico and El Salvador, added Diaz, who now runs a UCLA research lab focused on Latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To do this type of work necessitated partnerships and bilateral relationships that could really move the needle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\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/2193x1234+0+45/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa1%2Fe0%2Fefd82a064a9096fe25770a28b155%2Fap24216054883839.jpg\" alt=\"Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris gives a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 30, 2010.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris gives a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 30, 2010. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when thousands of unaccompanied children began arriving at the border in 2014, she led with humanity, says Diaz. Harris \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-convenes-immigration-advocates-law-firms\">convened\u003c/a> government, philanthropy, nonprofits and corporate law firms, securing tens of millions of dollars so children going into immigration court alone had lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way that she acted was … to identify how we as Californians under her leadership could start to fill the holes in access to justice and representation for these kids,” Diaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“She has stood with us in our worst moments”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Capitol Hill last month, advocates rallied for \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/leading-immigrant-rights-representatives-reintroduce-registry-bill-provide-path\">a bill that would offer a path to citizenship\u003c/a> to long-term undocumented immigrants. At the rally, Angelica Salas, who runs the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, known as CHIRLA, said she and other advocates are energized to have Harris at the top of the Democratic ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know her,” she said. “She comes from California, so she knows the immigrant community. She has stood with us in our worst moments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Donald Trump became president in 2017 and Harris was a new U.S. senator, Salas said Harris met with CHIRLA members, reassuring undocumented immigrants fearful of Trump’s threats of mass deportation that she would fight for them. She also \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/448196-harris-unveils-plan-to-provide-dreamers-a-pathway-to-citizenship/\">stood with Dreamers\u003c/a>, young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, when Trump tried to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Salas says Harris \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/393742-kamala-harris-trump-treatment-of-migrants-is-a-crime-against-humanity/\">did more than speak out\u003c/a> when the Trump administration separated children from migrant parents at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went to detention centers to talk to the mothers whose children had been taken away from them,” she said. “So we have incredible faith that she will be an incredible champion for our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Biden-Harris administration struggles with migration\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now in the White House, Harris has had to wrestle with immigration from another standpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s part of a Biden administration that has been confronted with record numbers of international migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border and attempting to enter the country illegally, often to request asylum. Border enforcement and asylum adjudication agencies have been swamped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed npr-promo-card insettwocolumn\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, President Biden tasked Harris with addressing the “root causes” of migration from three Central American countries that were then the source of most unauthorized migration — a role that Republicans have falsely dubbed “border czar.” Analysts say Harris made some headway on business investment to create jobs, and on promoting the rule of law, but the results of such efforts could be many years in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring down the number of unauthorized border crossings more immediately, the Biden administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/04/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-secure-the-border/\">restricted access to asylum\u003c/a>, among other measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris joined Biden in calling on Congress to pass a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/29/fact-sheet-impact-of-bipartisan-border-agreement-funding-on-border-operations/\">bipartisan bill\u003c/a>, hammered out early this year, that would pour more resources into the Border Patrol and immigration courts, and allow the government to summarily expel people without hearing asylum claims if border encounters reach a certain level. Harris has slammed Trump for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/politics/senate-border-ukraine-israel-aid-vote/index.html\">undercutting Republican support\u003c/a> and tanking the bill’s chances of passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to these policies, many immigrant rights groups have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/2024/06/04/nilc-statement-on-bidens-executive-action-on-the-border/\">sharply criticized Biden\u003c/a> for what they say are moves that override the legal right to ask for protection from persecution. But so far, they’re not attacking Harris in the same way.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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