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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Biographer Dan Morain On Harris' Road from Oakland to Washington D.C.
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New Yorker Writer Jay Caspian Kang Wants Kamala Harris to Tell Her Family Story
Trump Attacks Kamala Harris’ Racial Identity at Black Journalism Convention
The Story Behind The Woman Who Inspired Harris to Break Barriers
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Californian Activists in DC Press Congress to Pass Legalization Bill for Long-Term Immigrants
'An Opportunity': How Do Pro-Palestinian Advocates Feel About a Kamala Harris Candidacy?
Harris Is Again Leaning Into Her Experience as a Prosecutor. Will It Work Against Trump?
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"content": "\u003cp>When Shyamala Gopalan approached her father with an acceptance letter to UC Berkeley and announced her dream of becoming a scientist, she was just 19 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an unusual move by a woman whose own barrier-breaking choices would allow her daughter, Kamala Harris, to do the same. The vice president often cites her mom as an inspiration for her political career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the late 1950s, and Gopalan was part of one of the first waves of Indian immigrants to the United States. “Anybody with a South Asian background, you’ll know that this was early, early, early,” Harris said, recounting the story in May at an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK66J1qfGog&t=9s\">event\u003c/a> with the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She arrived in the United States by herself because she had a passion and she had a goal,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4qpW1Kg4ly/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch3>Gopalan’s research took her around the world\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gopalan wanted to cure breast cancer. Her work took her all over the world, doing research in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/04/1052178645/vice-president-harris-is-in-france-heres-what-she-will-be-doing\">France\u003c/a> and Canada. For part of her childhood, Harris lived in Wisconsin because of her mother’s job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, California, \u003ca href=\"https://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/29/4/a-fortuitous-connection\">Gopalan’s long hours\u003c/a> meant Harris and her younger sister Maya sometimes spent time after school with their downstairs neighbor, Regina Shelton, who ran a daycare center. Harris considers Shelton a second mother. When she was sworn in as vice president, Harris used Shelton’s bible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ father, Donald Harris, immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, but her parents split up when she was young. Carole Porter, a childhood friend of Harris’, says that Gopalan raised her daughters with both cultures, but knew that Kamala and Maya would be seen as Black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In America, we’re considered Black women. And that’s how our mothers raised us because that’s what they knew we would be seen as,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5050973/kamala-harris-friend-talks-about-how-their-childhood-shaped-her\">said Porter\u003c/a>, who also is biracial. “Regina Shelton was really helpful and supportive for Shyamala in doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1600x1525+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F8a%2F7dc15c1d482dbd099fad4bb231ef%2Fshyamala-berkley.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Shyamala Gopalan in her lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she worked as a biomedical scientist. 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In her campaign, she would talk about her mother in speeches — telling the audience about how her mother was five feet tall, but it seemed like she was much taller. It’s a line Harris still uses to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s been saying that since 2003,” Rebecca Prozan, Harris’ campaign manager in that race said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM.png\" alt=\"Old photo of Kamala Harris and her mother.\" width=\"600\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM-160x159.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“My mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, had two goals in life: to cure breast cancer and to raise my sister and me. I miss her every day and think of her all the time. I am so proud to be her daughter. Happy Mother’s Day,” wrote Harris on Instagram. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C63qQ-SOIrX/\">A post shared by Vice President Kamala Harris (@vp).\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(@VP Kamala Harris via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">A cancer researcher diagnosed with cancer\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gopalan died of colon cancer in 2009 as Harris was running for attorney general of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, when Harris ran for president the first time, she talked about her own experiences dealing with the health care system when her mother was going through chemotherapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the experience of some doctor talking to you about — have you heard the term anticipatory grief — which is the grief that you experience when someone is still here but it weighs on you. The experience of trying to cook for somebody and hope that whatever I make is something you can hold down or you have an appetite for,” Harris said during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/the-last-word/2019-05-28-msna1236796\">MSNBC town hall\u003c/a> in May 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience of hoping when you’re going through chemotherapy that we can give you clothes that are soft enough because your skin is so sensitive. The experience of trying to make sure that the medication on each of the charts actually matches up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those months while Harris was running a campaign, and her mother was going through treatment, her friends took shifts to keep Gopalan company at the hospital. Rothschild was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would come in and sit with her and we would read the paper or watch the news or talk about Kamala,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even then, Rothschild said Gopalan had a sense of humor. 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So, anybody of South Asian background, you’ll know that this was early, early, early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: That’s the Vice President talking about her trailblazing mom at an event two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: She arrived in the United States by herself because she had a passion and she had a goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: It was at Berkeley that Shyamala met Donald Harris, an economic student from Jamaica. They were both interested in civil rights. The two were together for about a decade and had two daughters, Kamala and her younger sister, Maya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: Basically, her life was committed to two things — raising her two daughters and ending breast cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: Breast cancer research is what Shyamala worked on. The hours were relentless, and the days were long. Sometimes, Harris and her sister would stay with their downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Regina Shelton, who ran a daycare center. Harris’s childhood friend, Carole Porter, told NPR’s Ari Shapiro she remembers Shyamala from their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAROLE PORTER: She had an air of confidence about her. She had an air of just integrity and strength. When you saw Shyamala, you said hello, Mrs. Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: Shyamala’s research also took her family around the country and around the world. Her first job was helping out in her mother’s research lab. But when it came time to pick her career path, Harris chose the law and of course, politics, and Shyamala was there to support her. Every weekend of Harris’ first campaign in 2003, Shyamala was at campaign headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD: Sealing envelopes, making calls — she did the work and made sure all the volunteers had coffee and doughnuts. 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There’s that now-famous coconut tree story, of course, but there’s also this — don’t let anyone tell you who you are. You tell them who you are, Shyamala would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: She would often say to me, is Kamala, you may be the first to do many things. Make sure you’re not the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: It’s a message Harris shares across the country and one that came up in New Orleans just two weeks before Harris would launch a presidential campaign breaking yet another barrier. She was taking pictures backstage and signed a poster that echoed her mother’s words. It read first but not the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, California, \u003ca href=\"https://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/29/4/a-fortuitous-connection\">Gopalan’s long hours\u003c/a> meant Harris and her younger sister Maya sometimes spent time after school with their downstairs neighbor, Regina Shelton, who ran a daycare center. Harris considers Shelton a second mother. When she was sworn in as vice president, Harris used Shelton’s bible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ father, Donald Harris, immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, but her parents split up when she was young. Carole Porter, a childhood friend of Harris’, says that Gopalan raised her daughters with both cultures, but knew that Kamala and Maya would be seen as Black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In America, we’re considered Black women. And that’s how our mothers raised us because that’s what they knew we would be seen as,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5050973/kamala-harris-friend-talks-about-how-their-childhood-shaped-her\">said Porter\u003c/a>, who also is biracial. “Regina Shelton was really helpful and supportive for Shyamala in doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1600x1525+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F8a%2F7dc15c1d482dbd099fad4bb231ef%2Fshyamala-berkley.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Shyamala Gopalan in her lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she worked as a biomedical scientist. Her work was focused on hormone receptors in breast-cancer development.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1144\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Shyamala Gopalan in her lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she worked as a biomedical scientist. Her work was focused on hormone receptors in breast cancer development. (Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">Gopalan was there for her daughter’s first campaign\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Harris’ first political campaign to become district attorney of San Francisco, her mother was at campaign headquarters every weekend, friends and former staffers of Harris say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sealing envelopes, making calls—she did the work—and making sure all the volunteers had coffee and donuts,” said Matthew Rothschild, a friend of Harris’ who was also close with her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rothschild said Harris inherited her mother’s love of cooking, her laugh and her sense of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she ever felt that you weren’t being treated right or you were down in the dumps, or there was any injustice in your life or anything, she’d be the first person to call and say, ‘Are you okay?’” he said, describing Gopalan. “And then she’d be hard to get off the phone because she wouldn’t want to hang up unless she knew you were okay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris started at just 8% in the polls in the primary for that district attorney race. In her campaign, she would talk about her mother in speeches — telling the audience about how her mother was five feet tall, but it seemed like she was much taller. It’s a line Harris still uses to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s been saying that since 2003,” Rebecca Prozan, Harris’ campaign manager in that race said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM.png\" alt=\"Old photo of Kamala Harris and her mother.\" width=\"600\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-31-at-10.54.31-AM-160x159.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“My mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, had two goals in life: to cure breast cancer and to raise my sister and me. I miss her every day and think of her all the time. I am so proud to be her daughter. Happy Mother’s Day,” wrote Harris on Instagram. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C63qQ-SOIrX/\">A post shared by Vice President Kamala Harris (@vp).\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(@VP Kamala Harris via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">A cancer researcher diagnosed with cancer\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gopalan died of colon cancer in 2009 as Harris was running for attorney general of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, when Harris ran for president the first time, she talked about her own experiences dealing with the health care system when her mother was going through chemotherapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the experience of some doctor talking to you about — have you heard the term anticipatory grief — which is the grief that you experience when someone is still here but it weighs on you. The experience of trying to cook for somebody and hope that whatever I make is something you can hold down or you have an appetite for,” Harris said during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/the-last-word/2019-05-28-msna1236796\">MSNBC town hall\u003c/a> in May 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience of hoping when you’re going through chemotherapy that we can give you clothes that are soft enough because your skin is so sensitive. The experience of trying to make sure that the medication on each of the charts actually matches up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those months while Harris was running a campaign, and her mother was going through treatment, her friends took shifts to keep Gopalan company at the hospital. Rothschild was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would come in and sit with her and we would read the paper or watch the news or talk about Kamala,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even then, Rothschild said Gopalan had a sense of humor. He recalled that one day when he went to the hospital, she had put a sign on the door: “No visitors today. Only the Rothschilds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here she was, she was dying… she had a great sense of humor, even in her pain,” he said. “I can see her laughing, with her shoulders moving up and down, sort of the way it does with Kamala.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold\">On the trail today, Harris tells her mother’s story\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since becoming vice president, Harris has continued talking about the advice she got from her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One line is the now infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSTqokjNEE\">coconut story\u003c/a>, which inspired a wave of emojis on social media that signify support for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what’s wrong with you, young people. 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Her mother helped show her the way, as NPR’s White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEEPA SHIVARAM, BYLINE: Kamala Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was 19 years old when she approached her father with a proposal. She wanted to go study to be a scientist, but not in Tamil Nadu, the state where Gopalan’s family lived in India. Shyamala wanted to go study science in a country where she knew no one at the University of California in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: She was part of one of the first waves of Indians to come in relative modern history to the United States, in the ’50s, right? So, anybody of South Asian background, you’ll know that this was early, early, early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: That’s the Vice President talking about her trailblazing mom at an event two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: She arrived in the United States by herself because she had a passion and she had a goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: It was at Berkeley that Shyamala met Donald Harris, an economic student from Jamaica. They were both interested in civil rights. The two were together for about a decade and had two daughters, Kamala and her younger sister, Maya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HARRIS: Basically, her life was committed to two things — raising her two daughters and ending breast cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHIVARAM: Breast cancer research is what Shyamala worked on. The hours were relentless, and the days were long. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:50 a.m. Tuesday: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1820828396298879294\">Vice President Kamala Harris announced Tuesday morning\u003c/a> that she has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998972/harris-vp-pick-of-tim-walz-is-a-heartland-of-america-democrat-pelosi-says\">Read more about Harris’ VP pick \u003c/a>or jump to\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp\"> our analysis of Walz as a running mate candidate below.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1820828396298879294\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris says she will choose a running mate by next Wednesday — a little over two weeks from the day \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996616/biden-ends-reelection-campaign-leaving-democrats-next-steps-unclear\">she announced a run for president.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, picking and vetting a vice presidential candidate takes months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Harris — who entered the race on July 21 hours after President Joe Biden dropped out and became \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/02/harris-becomes-democratic-nominee/\">the official Democratic presidential nominee Friday\u003c/a> — doesn’t have that kind of time, as the election is just 94 days away.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will Kamala Harris announce her VP choice?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris was given an Aug. 7 deadline to pick a vice presidential candidate by the Democratic National Party, which wants to lock up the entire ticket ahead of its convention later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Harris doesn’t \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to take all that time and could name her vice president at any point in the next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means an incredibly truncated timeline for vetting the potential vice presidential candidates — even as Harris hit the campaign trail and worked to stand up television ads and other campaign infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who could Kamala Harris choose for her VP?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ reported shortlist of candidates comes from all over the country and has a wide range of life experiences and backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, all have a few things in common: They’re all white men. And they are all from either purple swing states (also known as battleground states) that Democrats need to win in order to keep the White House — or they’ve been elected in red states that are tough for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">like Harris, are former state attorneys general.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person not on the shortlist: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">California Governor Gavin Newsom.\u003c/a> While he’s spent the last few years burnishing his national profile and been a top surrogate for Biden — and longtime political ally of Harris — there are a couple reasons he’s not being considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One, the constitution prohibits a president and vice president from being from the same state. And two, there would be no political upside — and potentially some political damage — to choosing someone from liberal California. Vice presidential picks are largely about balancing a ticket and maybe even picking up some new voters, so someone from a battleground state is a safer pick when it comes to convincing swing voters to back the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s who the likely Democratic nominee is considering as her running mate. (One note: two top contenders, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, took themselves out of the running preemptively).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to one of Harris’ possible VP choices:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp\">Josh Shapiro\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#mark-kelly-kamala-harris-vp\">Mark Kelly\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#andy-beshear-kamala-harris-vp\">Andy Beshear\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp\">Tim Walz\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pete-buttegeig-kamala-harris-vp\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997713\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters at her first campaign event as the presumptive Democratic nominee at West Allis High School in West Allis, Wisconsin, on July 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mohatt/Reuters via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shapiro, 51, was elected Pennsylvania attorney general the year Harris went to Washington, D.C., as a senator. However, of the vice presidential contenders, Harris knows Shapiro the best personally — they met nearly 20 years ago — and his state is part of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_(U.S._politics)\">the “blue wall” Democrats have relied on to win the Electoral College\u003c/a> for decades. It’s a must-win this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro won Pennsylvania governorship by 15 points in 2022, six years after Trump’s surprise victory there shocked Democrats. He’s made a name for himself as both attorney general and governor as an outspoken proponent of reproductive rights. As attorney general, he took on the Trump administration, filing lawsuits over the travel ban, birth control access and gun control. He also made national headlines for his “bombshell” investigation into Catholic clergy sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro, who is Jewish, is an outspoken supporter of Israel — and to many on the left, a foe of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997961/an-opportunity-how-do-pro-palestinian-advocates-feel-about-a-kamala-harris-candidacy\">pro-Palestinian protesters and the Palestinian cause more generally\u003c/a>. Before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">the war on Gaza\u003c/a>, Shapiro supported Pennsylvania’s anti-divestment, boycott and sanctions law. He has also been vocally critical of pro-Palestinian college protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mark-kelly-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The son of two New Jersey police officers, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, 60, is a former U.S. Navy pilot who flew 39 combat missions during the Gulf War. He went on to become a NASA astronaut, taking four trips into space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, his wife, then-Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was targeted by a gunman as she held a constituent event outside a supermarket in Tucson. Giffords was shot in the head; six people were killed and 12 others injured. Two years later, after the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, Giffords and Kelly formed an organization aimed at combating gun violence that has become one of the foremost groups pushing gun safety laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly ran for Senate in 2020 and captured the seat long held by John McCain in a special election. Kelly’s narrow win flipped the seat from red to blue, and he won a full term in 2022 with a solid 5-point margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly’s biography is impressive enough, but he also has bipartisan credibility in Arizona — a state Trump carried in 2016, and Biden won in 2020 — on an issue seen as a weakness for Harris: immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is seen as an expert on the politics and technicalities of the U.S.-Mexico border and as a pragmatist who supports both more border security and preserving asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"andy-beshear-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump won Kentucky by 26 points in 2020, yet Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear was able to hold onto the governorship last year with a comfortable 5-point margin and retains high approval ratings. And he’s launched this successful political career in a state dominated by the GOP — without compromising liberal values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Harris, he previously served as his home state’s attorney general. The son of a former governor, he’s focused largely on bread-and-butter issues like the economy and infrastructure investment. But Beshar has also worked with the Republican-controlled Legislature to legalize medical cannabis and sports betting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, he’s clashed with Republicans, vetoing a bill that banned transgender care for minors (Republican lawmakers overrode the veto) and signing an executive order that restored voting rights for 175,000 people with past felony convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 46, he’s among the youngest of the vice president contenders — 13 years younger than Harris. He’s also seen as an effective communicator.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most “dad” of the potential vice presidential picks, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has gone viral in the past week for his plainspoken and funny attacks on MAGA politics on cable news, including coining the “weird dudes” phrase to characterize Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1815951829479330211\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walz, 60, is a former high school teacher and congressman whose Midwestern sensibility is just one of his selling points. He helped flip the state Senate blue in 2022, leaving Democrats in control of both houses of the Legislature and then embarked on an ambitious progressive agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that midterm election, Minnesota Democrats have codified abortion rights, passed protections for transgender people, approved paid sick and family leave, expanded voting rights and increased funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike some of the other contenders, though, Walz doesn’t bring a swing state to the ticket: Minnesotans haven’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"pete-buttegeig-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>Pete Buttigieg\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayor Pete, as he’s colloquially known, has also become a cable news sensation on the left. Currently the Secretary of Transportation for President Biden, Pete Buttigieg’s highest elected office was as mayor of South Bend, Indiana — but he first made national waves four years ago during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former U.S. Navy Reserve officer, Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay person confirmed to serve in a president’s Cabinet. In 2014, when he was mayor, he took a leave of absence to deploy to Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As transportation secretary, he’s overseen the rollout of Biden’s infrastructure law and federal responses to crises, including the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last year. He’s also worked on supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buttigieg is from a solidly red state (Indianians last went for a Democratic presidential candidate in 2008). His husband, Chasten Buttigieg, has become relatively famous in his own right, and the two share adopted twins. His sexual orientation could be seen as a potential asset and drawback; if Harris picks him, it would be a groundbreaking ticket.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Harris — who entered the race on July 21 hours after President Joe Biden dropped out and became \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/02/harris-becomes-democratic-nominee/\">the official Democratic presidential nominee Friday\u003c/a> — doesn’t have that kind of time, as the election is just 94 days away.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will Kamala Harris announce her VP choice?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris was given an Aug. 7 deadline to pick a vice presidential candidate by the Democratic National Party, which wants to lock up the entire ticket ahead of its convention later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Harris doesn’t \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to take all that time and could name her vice president at any point in the next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means an incredibly truncated timeline for vetting the potential vice presidential candidates — even as Harris hit the campaign trail and worked to stand up television ads and other campaign infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who could Kamala Harris choose for her VP?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ reported shortlist of candidates comes from all over the country and has a wide range of life experiences and backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, all have a few things in common: They’re all white men. And they are all from either purple swing states (also known as battleground states) that Democrats need to win in order to keep the White House — or they’ve been elected in red states that are tough for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">like Harris, are former state attorneys general.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person not on the shortlist: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">California Governor Gavin Newsom.\u003c/a> While he’s spent the last few years burnishing his national profile and been a top surrogate for Biden — and longtime political ally of Harris — there are a couple reasons he’s not being considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One, the constitution prohibits a president and vice president from being from the same state. And two, there would be no political upside — and potentially some political damage — to choosing someone from liberal California. Vice presidential picks are largely about balancing a ticket and maybe even picking up some new voters, so someone from a battleground state is a safer pick when it comes to convincing swing voters to back the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s who the likely Democratic nominee is considering as her running mate. (One note: two top contenders, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, took themselves out of the running preemptively).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to one of Harris’ possible VP choices:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp\">Josh Shapiro\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#mark-kelly-kamala-harris-vp\">Mark Kelly\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#andy-beshear-kamala-harris-vp\">Andy Beshear\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp\">Tim Walz\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pete-buttegeig-kamala-harris-vp\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997713\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072324-Kamala-Harris-REUTERS-CM-copy-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters at her first campaign event as the presumptive Democratic nominee at West Allis High School in West Allis, Wisconsin, on July 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mohatt/Reuters via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shapiro, 51, was elected Pennsylvania attorney general the year Harris went to Washington, D.C., as a senator. However, of the vice presidential contenders, Harris knows Shapiro the best personally — they met nearly 20 years ago — and his state is part of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_(U.S._politics)\">the “blue wall” Democrats have relied on to win the Electoral College\u003c/a> for decades. It’s a must-win this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro won Pennsylvania governorship by 15 points in 2022, six years after Trump’s surprise victory there shocked Democrats. He’s made a name for himself as both attorney general and governor as an outspoken proponent of reproductive rights. As attorney general, he took on the Trump administration, filing lawsuits over the travel ban, birth control access and gun control. He also made national headlines for his “bombshell” investigation into Catholic clergy sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro, who is Jewish, is an outspoken supporter of Israel — and to many on the left, a foe of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997961/an-opportunity-how-do-pro-palestinian-advocates-feel-about-a-kamala-harris-candidacy\">pro-Palestinian protesters and the Palestinian cause more generally\u003c/a>. Before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">the war on Gaza\u003c/a>, Shapiro supported Pennsylvania’s anti-divestment, boycott and sanctions law. He has also been vocally critical of pro-Palestinian college protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mark-kelly-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The son of two New Jersey police officers, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, 60, is a former U.S. Navy pilot who flew 39 combat missions during the Gulf War. He went on to become a NASA astronaut, taking four trips into space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, his wife, then-Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was targeted by a gunman as she held a constituent event outside a supermarket in Tucson. Giffords was shot in the head; six people were killed and 12 others injured. Two years later, after the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, Giffords and Kelly formed an organization aimed at combating gun violence that has become one of the foremost groups pushing gun safety laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly ran for Senate in 2020 and captured the seat long held by John McCain in a special election. Kelly’s narrow win flipped the seat from red to blue, and he won a full term in 2022 with a solid 5-point margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly’s biography is impressive enough, but he also has bipartisan credibility in Arizona — a state Trump carried in 2016, and Biden won in 2020 — on an issue seen as a weakness for Harris: immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is seen as an expert on the politics and technicalities of the U.S.-Mexico border and as a pragmatist who supports both more border security and preserving asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"andy-beshear-kamala-harris-vp\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump won Kentucky by 26 points in 2020, yet Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear was able to hold onto the governorship last year with a comfortable 5-point margin and retains high approval ratings. 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"content": "\u003cp>WASHINGTON — With immigration emerging as a key, divisive issue in the presidential election, scores of immigrant advocates from California converged on Washington, D.C., this week to put a human face on their concerns and press Congress for a bill that would offer a path to citizenship for millions of long-term people without permanent legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a rally Tuesday morning outside the U.S. Capitol, advocates said that now that Vice President Kamala Harris is leading the Democratic ticket, they have new hope for pro-immigrant policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, or CHIRLA, said the fact that Harris is from California — and the daughter of immigrants herself — means she understands the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has stood with us in our worst moments,” including during the presidency of Donald Trump, Salas said. “When she knew that our families were fearful, she went to CHIRLA. She talked to our members. She told them that she would be a fighter for them. And she kept her promise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salas said she’s not waiting for Harris to win the presidency. Members of her group and hundreds of advocates from California and nearly a dozen other states plan to visit congressional offices this week to make the case for a bill that would update the 1929 Registry Act, a provision of immigration law that allowed long-term undocumented residents (mostly Europeans at the time) to gain lawful permanent status and eventually citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, Congress has periodically updated the “registry date,” but not since 1986. The current cutoff means that \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-7-part-o-chapter-4\">immigrants are only eligible if they’ve lived in the U.S. continuously since 1972\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s what we’re asking: Update this registry law created to bring people out of the shadows,” Salas said. “We need to educate members of Congress and the public. A lot of people don’t even know that the registry law already exists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998083\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Salas and other immigrant rights activists rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx\">Gallup poll this month\u003c/a> found that a growing number of Americans — 55%, up from 41% last year — want immigration levels reduced, and three out of four consider the border a crisis or a major problem. However, a strong majority of Americans also \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">say immigration is good for the country\u003c/a>, and 70% want to let immigrants living in the U.S. illegally become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements over time, a policy that has had consistent support for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in a closely divided Congress, with Republicans unified in their opposition to immigration reform, the bill has no chance of passage. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1511/cosponsors\">House bill\u003c/a>, authored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren of San José, has 82 Democratic co-sponsors but no Republican backers. Similarly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2606\">the Senate version\u003c/a>, authored by California Sen. Alex Padilla and with 10 Democratic co-sponsors, is stuck, as Democrats hold a narrow majority but lack a 60-vote supermajority to overcome Senate filibuster rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates with CHIRLA said they hoped to persuade Central Valley Rep. David Valadao to support the bill. He’s a rare Republican who has previously supported bipartisan legalization bills. His office did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Trump is working to stir a fear of immigrants among voters and aiming to put Harris on the defensive on immigration, \u003ca href=\"https://app.frame.io/presentations/a2bb65e7-a32e-4cec-9258-847977d4cf76\">attacking her for high levels of unauthorized border crossings in his first television ad\u003c/a> of the general election campaign, released this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998081\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant rights activists rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As border czar, Kamala threw open our borders that allowed 20 million illegal aliens to stampede into our country from all over the world,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3Dl-lhZFU\">Trump alleged at a July 24 campaign rally\u003c/a>, greatly inflating the number of arrivals and falsely assigning Harris a role that was never hers. While President Joe Biden tasked Harris with tackling the root causes of immigration from Central America, she was not in charge of policing the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Harris has a record of supporting long-time immigrants in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-campaign-chief-signals-biden-border-crackdown-continued-if-elected/\">her campaign has indicated she will maintain Biden’s recent asylum restrictions\u003c/a> that the administration credits with a sharp drop in border crossings in recent months that are being challenged in court by migrant advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though Congress is unlikely to take action on the registry bill or any other immigration legislation before the election, analysts say it makes sense that immigrant rights groups are now lobbying in Washington, D.C., to raise awareness of their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political science professor Fernando Guerra, who runs the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, said advocates are positioning themselves — either to mount a strong defense against the actions of a second Trump presidency or to push Congress and a Harris administration for long-sought legalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The emergence of Harris has propelled momentum on the Democratic side, and it’s also mobilizing advocates for all kinds of different policies and especially immigration, to begin to shape the narrative now,” Guerra said. “Being there today and beginning to shift the narrative can have an impact on what will be done in early 2025.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the rally, Blessing Roland-Magaji, 22, said she showed up to support the registry bill because it would offer a way to make a permanent home in the U.S. A recent Scripps College graduate who’ll start at Stanford Law School in the fall, Roland-Magaji said she was born in Ireland to Nigerian parents and has lived in the U.S. since she was 11 but without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many temporary solutions. DACA: I immigrated one year too late. When it comes to adjusting [immigration status] through family, I was too old,” she said.” There’s always bars for people who just want to be able to work and live here. I’ve almost been in the States longer than I was ever in Ireland. This is my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998082\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blessing Roland-Magaji and other immigrant rights activists at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For another California resident, the journey to the Capitol was motivated by raw pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Solís, 57, a health care aide from Santa Rosa, said she has lived in the U.S. for 24 years, working and raising her children in Sonoma County. For years, she has heard elected officials talk about making a path to citizenship for immigrants without permanent legal status like herself. But it has never happened. And the impact hit keenly early this year when her little sister was dying of cancer in Mexico, and Solís was unable to visit her to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I bought my own ticket to come here,” she said, wiping away tears. “I’m here to fight, not just for me, but for everyone who’s had to go through something like this. It hurts so much, and I thought: ‘If I’m hurting, others are too.’ We need legalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The current cutoff means that \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-7-part-o-chapter-4\">immigrants are only eligible if they’ve lived in the U.S. continuously since 1972\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s what we’re asking: Update this registry law created to bring people out of the shadows,” Salas said. “We need to educate members of Congress and the public. A lot of people don’t even know that the registry law already exists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998083\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Salas and other immigrant rights activists rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx\">Gallup poll this month\u003c/a> found that a growing number of Americans — 55%, up from 41% last year — want immigration levels reduced, and three out of four consider the border a crisis or a major problem. However, a strong majority of Americans also \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">say immigration is good for the country\u003c/a>, and 70% want to let immigrants living in the U.S. illegally become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements over time, a policy that has had consistent support for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in a closely divided Congress, with Republicans unified in their opposition to immigration reform, the bill has no chance of passage. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1511/cosponsors\">House bill\u003c/a>, authored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren of San José, has 82 Democratic co-sponsors but no Republican backers. Similarly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2606\">the Senate version\u003c/a>, authored by California Sen. Alex Padilla and with 10 Democratic co-sponsors, is stuck, as Democrats hold a narrow majority but lack a 60-vote supermajority to overcome Senate filibuster rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates with CHIRLA said they hoped to persuade Central Valley Rep. David Valadao to support the bill. He’s a rare Republican who has previously supported bipartisan legalization bills. His office did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Trump is working to stir a fear of immigrants among voters and aiming to put Harris on the defensive on immigration, \u003ca href=\"https://app.frame.io/presentations/a2bb65e7-a32e-4cec-9258-847977d4cf76\">attacking her for high levels of unauthorized border crossings in his first television ad\u003c/a> of the general election campaign, released this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998081\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant rights activists rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As border czar, Kamala threw open our borders that allowed 20 million illegal aliens to stampede into our country from all over the world,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3Dl-lhZFU\">Trump alleged at a July 24 campaign rally\u003c/a>, greatly inflating the number of arrivals and falsely assigning Harris a role that was never hers. While President Joe Biden tasked Harris with tackling the root causes of immigration from Central America, she was not in charge of policing the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Harris has a record of supporting long-time immigrants in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-campaign-chief-signals-biden-border-crackdown-continued-if-elected/\">her campaign has indicated she will maintain Biden’s recent asylum restrictions\u003c/a> that the administration credits with a sharp drop in border crossings in recent months that are being challenged in court by migrant advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though Congress is unlikely to take action on the registry bill or any other immigration legislation before the election, analysts say it makes sense that immigrant rights groups are now lobbying in Washington, D.C., to raise awareness of their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political science professor Fernando Guerra, who runs the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, said advocates are positioning themselves — either to mount a strong defense against the actions of a second Trump presidency or to push Congress and a Harris administration for long-sought legalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The emergence of Harris has propelled momentum on the Democratic side, and it’s also mobilizing advocates for all kinds of different policies and especially immigration, to begin to shape the narrative now,” Guerra said. “Being there today and beginning to shift the narrative can have an impact on what will be done in early 2025.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the rally, Blessing Roland-Magaji, 22, said she showed up to support the registry bill because it would offer a way to make a permanent home in the U.S. A recent Scripps College graduate who’ll start at Stanford Law School in the fall, Roland-Magaji said she was born in Ireland to Nigerian parents and has lived in the U.S. since she was 11 but without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many temporary solutions. DACA: I immigrated one year too late. When it comes to adjusting [immigration status] through family, I was too old,” she said.” There’s always bars for people who just want to be able to work and live here. I’ve almost been in the States longer than I was ever in Ireland. This is my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998082\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blessing Roland-Magaji and other immigrant rights activists at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For another California resident, the journey to the Capitol was motivated by raw pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Solís, 57, a health care aide from Santa Rosa, said she has lived in the U.S. for 24 years, working and raising her children in Sonoma County. For years, she has heard elected officials talk about making a path to citizenship for immigrants without permanent legal status like herself. But it has never happened. And the impact hit keenly early this year when her little sister was dying of cancer in Mexico, and Solís was unable to visit her to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I bought my own ticket to come here,” she said, wiping away tears. “I’m here to fight, not just for me, but for everyone who’s had to go through something like this. It hurts so much, and I thought: ‘If I’m hurting, others are too.’ We need legalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On July 21, President Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 presidential election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democratic nominee. And soon after, reports began to circulate that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris may shift away\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/14/1244683830/politics-chat-biden-vows-to-continue-support-for-israel-aid-package-in-the-works\">her predecessor’s long-standing support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crisis in Gaza came into even sharper focus last week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u003c/a> on Thursday during his visit to Washington, D.C., following \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-kamala-harris-biden-trump-support-gaza-rcna162992\">her decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress\u003c/a>. Harris said that while she had an “unwavering commitment to Israel,” which she said “has a right to defend itself,” she nonetheless urged a cease-fire deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” Harris said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">her official remarks after the meeting with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. “We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent.” It was a marked contrast from Biden’s previous statements around Gazans, which many criticized for his seeming \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/12/biden-empathy-lacking-palestinians/\">lack of empathy for Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian activists say they are now watching Harris’ campaign cautiously — and that they’re seeing this election season as a key moment to set the political priorities of the next few years. For these advocates, “Palestine has never been a single issue,” said Samer Araabi, San Francisco resident and member of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC). “It’s the perspective of how a government should function, vis-a-vis war and militarism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our moment to articulate a vision for a better version of this country,” Araabi said. “A version of this country that actually upholds the values that it espouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Vallejo resident Halimah Houston said that while they saw Harris as “more competent than both Joe Biden and Trump to do the job,” they “hope she recognizes we need a cease-fire since she’ll have more power as president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Miller, the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said Harris and the Democratic Party now have “an opportunity” to rebuild with their voting base — and engage younger voters like Houston too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Miller, Biden “has essentially broken apart the broad progressive coalition that helped him defeat Donald Trump in 2020” — something she attributes in part “to his unquestioning support for the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Netanyahu’s visit met with absences — and protests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israeli forces have killed over 38,000, injured over 88,000 and displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. Now in its 10th month, the siege of Gaza began after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 of the hostages have been released or rescued. A network of human rights clinics in the United States — which includes institutions like Cornell and Yale universities — found in a May report that Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/palestine\">“constitute breaches of the international law prohibitions on the commission of genocide.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Harris, dozens of members of Congress were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997141/as-netanyahu-speaks-to-congress-several-bay-area-lawmakers-are-skipping-out\">absent from Netanyahu’s Wednesday address\u003c/a>. In fact, according to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1816173408918421683\">Axios\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, 100 of 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats were absent from Netanyahu’s address — a possible signal of change in the party’s reception to Israel, Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This included at least six Bay Area representatives, like former \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/speakerpelosi/status/1816208313572364356?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> and Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, who said in a statement that “the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has taken countless lives, including the lives of women and children, and destroyed Palestinian homes and communities,” and that she would not “condone” Netanyahu’s “deeply divisive policies [that] put the peace and security of both Israelis and Palestinians at risk” with her presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the press after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the vice president’s ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu was greeted with applause and cheers by many pro-Israel activists — some of whom are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-netanyahu-speech-1929811\">elected representatives\u003c/a>. Watching parts of Netanyahu’s visit from the Bay Area, Palestinian Santa Clara resident Ken Afi said the welcome that the Israeli PM received showed him that “these congressmen don’t stand for us. They don’t stand for the people. It’s just about trading power between them and suppressing the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the United States and our Congress and our executive branch had a shred of moral clarity, they would be putting this man behind bars as soon as he landed his flight,” Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC’s Araabi was one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-gaza-war-congress-joint-session-9a7885972989b2397b49e5b971ffe0e0\">thousands of protesters who took to the streets of D.C. to protest the Israeli PM’s visit\u003c/a> and attempt to block his passage to Congress. Protesters were reported to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">pepper sprayed, and relatives of the remaining \u003c/a>Israeli hostages, who wore shirts \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">demanding a cease-fire deal to free their loved ones, were also detained by police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/rashida-tlaib-netanyahu-israel-gaza\">some of her fellow Democrats\u003c/a>, Harris did not say anything publicly about Netanyahu’s presence at Congress, either before or in her remarks after their meeting. And on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/vp/status/1816490945501708660?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Harris condemned some of the protesters\u003c/a>, specifically denouncing “pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric,” the burning of the U.S. flag and “despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lydiakiesling/status/1816517309835673949?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">For some\u003c/a>, this has \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/soulkhan/status/1816515410516377895?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">soured\u003c/a> the optimism they felt around Harris and Gaza, saying Harris’ remarks were Islamophobic for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93DdMwP4WP/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==\">equating these protesters with terrorists\u003c/a> and for conflating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionist activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris and Israel\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress was, for many onlookers, the greatest indication yet that she might split from Biden’s support for Israel if she were to become the official Democratic nominee. The \u003cem>Wall Street Journal \u003c/em>also reported that current and former officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris is not likely to keep key Biden advisers and staff, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C94imq-smNp/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">An anonymous Israeli official was reported as reacting negatively\u003c/a> to Harris’ speech after the Netanyahu meeting — which centered on the suffering of Palestinians — saying it could lead to “regression in the [cease-fire] talks.” Miller of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a> — which describes itself as a “multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis by transforming U.S. policy” — said that while she “was glad to see that [Harris] was more stern in her wording around her meeting with Netanyahu,” she insisted that “we cannot and will not just accept rhetoric.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/362782/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-palestine-biden-netanyahu\">news outlets and commentators\u003c/a> have noted Harris has historically appeared \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/07/21/biden-quit-harris-president-gaza/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theintercept\">more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians\u003c/a> — as well as to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-interview-profile-excerpt/\">pro-Palestinian activists protesting in the United States on their behalf\u003c/a>. In March, she described the conditions in Gaza as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/03/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-commemorating-the-59th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-selma-al/\">humanitarian catastrophe\u003c/a>” and called for a temporary cease-fire. In the same speech, Harris said she was also more willing to be stricter with Israel’s blockade of aid being delivered to Gaza — something Biden had shied away from. Her 25-year-old stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, whose father, Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, is Jewish — has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-ella-emhoff-the-achingly-hip-knitwear-queen-in-line-to-be-the-first-step-daughter\">publicly raised money for Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in June, pro-Palestinian activists protested \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-05/vp-kamala-harris-greeted-by-over-a-hundred-protesters-outside-fundraiser-in-san-francisco\">Harris’ official appearance in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Araabi said activists like him are observing Harris’ burgeoning campaign “cautiously,” especially for her pick of vice president. Names like \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/07/24/josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp-short-list\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u003c/a> have been circulated — and critics are worried about \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/184151/one-vice-president-ruin-democratic-unity-josh-shapiro\">Shapiro’s hostile attitudes\u003c/a> toward pro-Palestinian college campus protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of disillusionment with the Biden-Harris administration generally,” Araabi said, adding that he thinks Harris is now “trying to chart a different course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said he was ultimately “cautiously optimistic” that elected representatives will be more supportive of Palestinian self-determination and rights — that Americans are recognizing Palestinian rights as part of the wider progressive movement and anti-racism advocacy — but asked “how much of that shift is genuine and how much of it is campaign rhetoric?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that she’s not going to Netanyahu’s Congress address is a good sign,” Araabi said. “The fact that she’s meeting with him is not a good sign. We do not need to be meeting with war criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Ellen Brotsky, a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, said she hoped Harris saw that many Americans are waiting for her to take “concrete actions to put pressure on Israel to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s an important part of her constituency,” said Brotsky, who has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for a decade. “Words are helpful, but action is what is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Gaza and Biden’s legacy \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden’s ongoing financial support of Israel has drawn continued criticism in an election year, setting up a difficult potential inheritance for Harris and the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, the bombardment of Gaza has sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">an outpouring of protests\u003c/a> in the streets — and in the last month, on college campuses — demanding a cease-fire in the Bay Area and across the country. Protesters have repeatedly called on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">the United States to cut its sizable aid to Israel’s military\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3754718/supplemental-bill-becomes-law-provides-billions-in-aid-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan/\">In April\u003c/a> alone, the United States approved $14.1 billion for Israel’s military. In contrast, around $1 billion was given to support humanitarian aid services in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars, sending weapons to Israel, and that money has much better uses here at home to actually fix our aging infrastructure and provide support for people who need it,” Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and demand an end to the Biden administration’s support of Israel while protesting outside of a campaign fundraiser featuring Vice President Kamala Harris at a home in Oakland, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Biden stated he has “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/29/nx-s1-4983786/where-is-the-biden-administrations-red-line-when-it-comes-palestinian-deaths-in-gaza\">red lines’\u003c/a>” when it comes to Palestinian deaths and his support of Israel, his views came across as \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bidens-increasingly-contradictory-israel-policy\">contradictory\u003c/a> as Israeli forces have attacked refugee camps, aid workers and hospitals, exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">the humanitarian crisis\u003c/a> that includes sickness and starvation. For the activists, Biden’s legacy is forever intertwined with the suffering in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going to go down in our community known as nothing but a butcher,” Santa Clara’s Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish Voice for Peace Action’s Miller said Biden made the United States government “directly complicit” in the siege of Gaza. ”I’m incredibly glad that he is not running for reelection because he has shown himself on this issue to be absolutely — both morally and politically — on the wrong side,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#vote-ceasefire-group-urges-california-voters-to-signal-gaza-support-through-ballot\">Voter opposition to the war in Gaza has already made itself known \u003c/a>to Democrats in 2024 during the primaries. In swing state Michigan — home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979450/how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a> were cast. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-divide-gaza-war-campus-protests-hurting-biden-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-05-16/\">May poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos\u003c/a> found that “44% of Democratic registered voters responding to the May 7–14 poll said they disapprove of Biden’s handling of the crisis. Democrats who disapproved of his response were less likely to say they would vote for Biden.” According to a recent Gallup poll, only \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647633/biden-approval-rating-hit-new-low-exit-race.aspx\">58% of Americans approved of his presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said that during the primary process, he’d heard from many people “who are self-proclaimed Democrats who said that they would never, ever, ever vote for Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the question now is, can Harris bring those people back in?” he said. “I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking ahead to November\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the Washington, D.C., protest, Araabi said it was “really incredible to see all those people together, all saying very clearly, ‘We won’t stand for this anymore. This can’t be done in our name,’” he said. “This is the thing that I’m sure every fight for social justice has experienced, in the same way that Congress wouldn’t let go of its support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">apartheid South Africa\u003c/a> until it absolutely was forced to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-Hp4uM1uU\">Hundreds of Jewish American activists\u003c/a> were at the Netanyahu protest, which, according to Brotsky, made the world see “that Israel is not committing genocide in the name of Jews. That Jewish safety doesn’t come from oppressing Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who is Palestinian American, told \u003cem>NPR\u003c/em> last week that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">if she had “tried to go to a mosque or Arab community event and urged them to vote for Joe Biden, I would never be invited back.\u003c/a> The anger was so deep. And the hurt was so deep — even for me.” Nonetheless, Romman said she believed constituents would now be open to hearing Harris make her own case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists want Harris to take a bolder stance on Gaza. Some, like Santa Clara’s Afi, say they’re considering third-party options like Jill Stein. Eighteen\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">-year-old Aniya Butler\u003c/a> told KQED last week they would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">not be voting for Harris\u003c/a> due to the absence of a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an African American young woman, it’s amazing to think about the possibility of someone who looks like me being in that state of power,” Butler said. “But what is that power even rooted in? And what is that power being used for? And in terms of right now, it’s rooted in inequity, violence and oppression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky said that whoever the Democratic presidential candidate is, Jewish Voice for Peace Action activists will continue to push for an arms embargo on Israel and a permanent cease-fire. The group also supports other pro-cease-fire candidates like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/our-2024-candidates/\">Cori Bush of St. Louis\u003c/a> and plans to march at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed,” Brotsky said. “[Cease-fire and arms embargo] was a demand of Biden in the Democratic Party. It’s still a demand of whoever the presidential nominee is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activists are nonetheless worried that amid a media storm around the U.S. 2024 election, the death toll in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinians will be forgotten. Miller said she also fears that the government will wait until election season is over to take any action on Gaza and that “Palestinians cannot wait until November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford to slip back into a sense of normalcy,” Afi said. “That’s kind of a scary concept to think the average American might just forget that people are being killed by bombs made in this country and shipped for free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to stay focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Ezra David Romero contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On July 21, President Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 presidential election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democratic nominee. And soon after, reports began to circulate that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris may shift away\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/14/1244683830/politics-chat-biden-vows-to-continue-support-for-israel-aid-package-in-the-works\">her predecessor’s long-standing support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crisis in Gaza came into even sharper focus last week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u003c/a> on Thursday during his visit to Washington, D.C., following \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-kamala-harris-biden-trump-support-gaza-rcna162992\">her decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress\u003c/a>. Harris said that while she had an “unwavering commitment to Israel,” which she said “has a right to defend itself,” she nonetheless urged a cease-fire deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” Harris said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">her official remarks after the meeting with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. “We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent.” It was a marked contrast from Biden’s previous statements around Gazans, which many criticized for his seeming \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/12/biden-empathy-lacking-palestinians/\">lack of empathy for Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian activists say they are now watching Harris’ campaign cautiously — and that they’re seeing this election season as a key moment to set the political priorities of the next few years. For these advocates, “Palestine has never been a single issue,” said Samer Araabi, San Francisco resident and member of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC). “It’s the perspective of how a government should function, vis-a-vis war and militarism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our moment to articulate a vision for a better version of this country,” Araabi said. “A version of this country that actually upholds the values that it espouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Vallejo resident Halimah Houston said that while they saw Harris as “more competent than both Joe Biden and Trump to do the job,” they “hope she recognizes we need a cease-fire since she’ll have more power as president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Miller, the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said Harris and the Democratic Party now have “an opportunity” to rebuild with their voting base — and engage younger voters like Houston too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Miller, Biden “has essentially broken apart the broad progressive coalition that helped him defeat Donald Trump in 2020” — something she attributes in part “to his unquestioning support for the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Netanyahu’s visit met with absences — and protests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israeli forces have killed over 38,000, injured over 88,000 and displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. Now in its 10th month, the siege of Gaza began after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 of the hostages have been released or rescued. A network of human rights clinics in the United States — which includes institutions like Cornell and Yale universities — found in a May report that Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/palestine\">“constitute breaches of the international law prohibitions on the commission of genocide.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Harris, dozens of members of Congress were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997141/as-netanyahu-speaks-to-congress-several-bay-area-lawmakers-are-skipping-out\">absent from Netanyahu’s Wednesday address\u003c/a>. In fact, according to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1816173408918421683\">Axios\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, 100 of 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats were absent from Netanyahu’s address — a possible signal of change in the party’s reception to Israel, Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This included at least six Bay Area representatives, like former \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/speakerpelosi/status/1816208313572364356?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> and Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, who said in a statement that “the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has taken countless lives, including the lives of women and children, and destroyed Palestinian homes and communities,” and that she would not “condone” Netanyahu’s “deeply divisive policies [that] put the peace and security of both Israelis and Palestinians at risk” with her presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162824876-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the press after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the vice president’s ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu was greeted with applause and cheers by many pro-Israel activists — some of whom are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-netanyahu-speech-1929811\">elected representatives\u003c/a>. Watching parts of Netanyahu’s visit from the Bay Area, Palestinian Santa Clara resident Ken Afi said the welcome that the Israeli PM received showed him that “these congressmen don’t stand for us. They don’t stand for the people. It’s just about trading power between them and suppressing the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the United States and our Congress and our executive branch had a shred of moral clarity, they would be putting this man behind bars as soon as he landed his flight,” Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC’s Araabi was one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-gaza-war-congress-joint-session-9a7885972989b2397b49e5b971ffe0e0\">thousands of protesters who took to the streets of D.C. to protest the Israeli PM’s visit\u003c/a> and attempt to block his passage to Congress. Protesters were reported to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">pepper sprayed, and relatives of the remaining \u003c/a>Israeli hostages, who wore shirts \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/capitol-police-pepper-spray-demonstrators-protesting-netanyahu-visit-rcna163502\">demanding a cease-fire deal to free their loved ones, were also detained by police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/rashida-tlaib-netanyahu-israel-gaza\">some of her fellow Democrats\u003c/a>, Harris did not say anything publicly about Netanyahu’s presence at Congress, either before or in her remarks after their meeting. And on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/vp/status/1816490945501708660?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Harris condemned some of the protesters\u003c/a>, specifically denouncing “pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric,” the burning of the U.S. flag and “despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lydiakiesling/status/1816517309835673949?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">For some\u003c/a>, this has \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/soulkhan/status/1816515410516377895?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">soured\u003c/a> the optimism they felt around Harris and Gaza, saying Harris’ remarks were Islamophobic for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93DdMwP4WP/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==\">equating these protesters with terrorists\u003c/a> and for conflating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionist activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris and Israel\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address to Congress was, for many onlookers, the greatest indication yet that she might split from Biden’s support for Israel if she were to become the official Democratic nominee. The \u003cem>Wall Street Journal \u003c/em>also reported that current and former officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/harriss-support-for-gaza-cease-fire-hints-at-foreign-policy-shift-bbe8dc2a\">Harris is not likely to keep key Biden advisers and staff, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C94imq-smNp/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">An anonymous Israeli official was reported as reacting negatively\u003c/a> to Harris’ speech after the Netanyahu meeting — which centered on the suffering of Palestinians — saying it could lead to “regression in the [cease-fire] talks.” Miller of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a> — which describes itself as a “multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis by transforming U.S. policy” — said that while she “was glad to see that [Harris] was more stern in her wording around her meeting with Netanyahu,” she insisted that “we cannot and will not just accept rhetoric.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/362782/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-palestine-biden-netanyahu\">news outlets and commentators\u003c/a> have noted Harris has historically appeared \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/07/21/biden-quit-harris-president-gaza/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theintercept\">more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians\u003c/a> — as well as to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-interview-profile-excerpt/\">pro-Palestinian activists protesting in the United States on their behalf\u003c/a>. In March, she described the conditions in Gaza as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/03/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-commemorating-the-59th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-selma-al/\">humanitarian catastrophe\u003c/a>” and called for a temporary cease-fire. In the same speech, Harris said she was also more willing to be stricter with Israel’s blockade of aid being delivered to Gaza — something Biden had shied away from. Her 25-year-old stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, whose father, Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, is Jewish — has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-ella-emhoff-the-achingly-hip-knitwear-queen-in-line-to-be-the-first-step-daughter\">publicly raised money for Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in June, pro-Palestinian activists protested \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-05/vp-kamala-harris-greeted-by-over-a-hundred-protesters-outside-fundraiser-in-san-francisco\">Harris’ official appearance in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Araabi said activists like him are observing Harris’ burgeoning campaign “cautiously,” especially for her pick of vice president. Names like \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/07/24/josh-shapiro-kamala-harris-vp-short-list\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u003c/a> have been circulated — and critics are worried about \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/184151/one-vice-president-ruin-democratic-unity-josh-shapiro\">Shapiro’s hostile attitudes\u003c/a> toward pro-Palestinian college campus protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of disillusionment with the Biden-Harris administration generally,” Araabi said, adding that he thinks Harris is now “trying to chart a different course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said he was ultimately “cautiously optimistic” that elected representatives will be more supportive of Palestinian self-determination and rights — that Americans are recognizing Palestinian rights as part of the wider progressive movement and anti-racism advocacy — but asked “how much of that shift is genuine and how much of it is campaign rhetoric?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that she’s not going to Netanyahu’s Congress address is a good sign,” Araabi said. “The fact that she’s meeting with him is not a good sign. We do not need to be meeting with war criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Ellen Brotsky, a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, said she hoped Harris saw that many Americans are waiting for her to take “concrete actions to put pressure on Israel to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s an important part of her constituency,” said Brotsky, who has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for a decade. “Words are helpful, but action is what is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Gaza and Biden’s legacy \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden’s ongoing financial support of Israel has drawn continued criticism in an election year, setting up a difficult potential inheritance for Harris and the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, the bombardment of Gaza has sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">an outpouring of protests\u003c/a> in the streets — and in the last month, on college campuses — demanding a cease-fire in the Bay Area and across the country. Protesters have repeatedly called on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">the United States to cut its sizable aid to Israel’s military\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3754718/supplemental-bill-becomes-law-provides-billions-in-aid-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan/\">In April\u003c/a> alone, the United States approved $14.1 billion for Israel’s military. In contrast, around $1 billion was given to support humanitarian aid services in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars, sending weapons to Israel, and that money has much better uses here at home to actually fix our aging infrastructure and provide support for people who need it,” Araabi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2155619547-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and demand an end to the Biden administration’s support of Israel while protesting outside of a campaign fundraiser featuring Vice President Kamala Harris at a home in Oakland, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Biden stated he has “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/29/nx-s1-4983786/where-is-the-biden-administrations-red-line-when-it-comes-palestinian-deaths-in-gaza\">red lines’\u003c/a>” when it comes to Palestinian deaths and his support of Israel, his views came across as \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bidens-increasingly-contradictory-israel-policy\">contradictory\u003c/a> as Israeli forces have attacked refugee camps, aid workers and hospitals, exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">the humanitarian crisis\u003c/a> that includes sickness and starvation. For the activists, Biden’s legacy is forever intertwined with the suffering in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going to go down in our community known as nothing but a butcher,” Santa Clara’s Afi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish Voice for Peace Action’s Miller said Biden made the United States government “directly complicit” in the siege of Gaza. ”I’m incredibly glad that he is not running for reelection because he has shown himself on this issue to be absolutely — both morally and politically — on the wrong side,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#vote-ceasefire-group-urges-california-voters-to-signal-gaza-support-through-ballot\">Voter opposition to the war in Gaza has already made itself known \u003c/a>to Democrats in 2024 during the primaries. In swing state Michigan — home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979450/how-many-californians-wrote-ceasefire-on-the-primary-ballot-its-complicated\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a> were cast. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-divide-gaza-war-campus-protests-hurting-biden-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-05-16/\">May poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos\u003c/a> found that “44% of Democratic registered voters responding to the May 7–14 poll said they disapprove of Biden’s handling of the crisis. Democrats who disapproved of his response were less likely to say they would vote for Biden.” According to a recent Gallup poll, only \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647633/biden-approval-rating-hit-new-low-exit-race.aspx\">58% of Americans approved of his presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi said that during the primary process, he’d heard from many people “who are self-proclaimed Democrats who said that they would never, ever, ever vote for Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the question now is, can Harris bring those people back in?” he said. “I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking ahead to November\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the Washington, D.C., protest, Araabi said it was “really incredible to see all those people together, all saying very clearly, ‘We won’t stand for this anymore. This can’t be done in our name,’” he said. “This is the thing that I’m sure every fight for social justice has experienced, in the same way that Congress wouldn’t let go of its support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">apartheid South Africa\u003c/a> until it absolutely was forced to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-Hp4uM1uU\">Hundreds of Jewish American activists\u003c/a> were at the Netanyahu protest, which, according to Brotsky, made the world see “that Israel is not committing genocide in the name of Jews. That Jewish safety doesn’t come from oppressing Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who is Palestinian American, told \u003cem>NPR\u003c/em> last week that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war\">if she had “tried to go to a mosque or Arab community event and urged them to vote for Joe Biden, I would never be invited back.\u003c/a> The anger was so deep. And the hurt was so deep — even for me.” Nonetheless, Romman said she believed constituents would now be open to hearing Harris make her own case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists want Harris to take a bolder stance on Gaza. Some, like Santa Clara’s Afi, say they’re considering third-party options like Jill Stein. Eighteen\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">-year-old Aniya Butler\u003c/a> told KQED last week they would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">not be voting for Harris\u003c/a> due to the absence of a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an African American young woman, it’s amazing to think about the possibility of someone who looks like me being in that state of power,” Butler said. “But what is that power even rooted in? And what is that power being used for? And in terms of right now, it’s rooted in inequity, violence and oppression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky said that whoever the Democratic presidential candidate is, Jewish Voice for Peace Action activists will continue to push for an arms embargo on Israel and a permanent cease-fire. The group also supports other pro-cease-fire candidates like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/our-2024-candidates/\">Cori Bush of St. Louis\u003c/a> and plans to march at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed,” Brotsky said. “[Cease-fire and arms embargo] was a demand of Biden in the Democratic Party. It’s still a demand of whoever the presidential nominee is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activists are nonetheless worried that amid a media storm around the U.S. 2024 election, the death toll in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinians will be forgotten. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two days before President Biden announced he would step back from his push for a second term, his campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5045682/biden-campaign-future\">appeared on television\u003c/a>, insisting the president would stay in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is the best person to take on Donald Trump and prosecute that case,” Dillon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12690/democrats-rally-behind-vice-president-harris\">Vice President Harris addressed her campaign staff for the first time after a hectic 24-hour period during which Democratic lawmakers and potential rivals rallied around Harris’ candidacy for the presidency.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But about 72 hours later, Vice President Harris was instead \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12690/democrats-rally-behind-vice-president-harris\">making that same argument\u003c/a> — and reviving a case she had made in 2019 when she ran in a crowded Democratic field seeking the nomination that year.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before I was elected as vice president before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I’ve mentioned, of California. And before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12690/democrats-rally-behind-vice-president-harris\">said to campaign staffers\u003c/a> in Wilmington, Del., on the day after Biden endorsed her to take his place at the top of the Democratic ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds — predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So, hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type,” Harris said in a line that has become the centerpiece of her whirlwind campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3400x2544+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3b%2F04%2Fc3bdfbaa4e35a64898c01ca143a9%2Fgettyimages-455195032.jpg\" alt=\"Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris briefs the media after raids on money laundering operations in Los Angeles on Sept. 10, 2014.\">\u003cfigcaption>Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris briefs the media after raids on money laundering operations in Los Angeles on Sept. 10, 2014. \u003ccite>(Mark Ralston | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>It’s rhetoric Harris has used before\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 2019, when she first ran for president, Harris’ campaign was centered on her career as a prosecutor. Her slogan was “for the people,” which is how Harris introduced herself in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her pitch to voters is the same today: that, with her background as a prosecutor, she is the best person to take on Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784443227/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race\">five years ago\u003c/a>, Harris’ record as a prosecutor was a liability in her campaign. She faced attacks from her Democratic opponents in the primary debates on her record with marijuana and on cracking down on truancy rates. Voters on the left referred to Harris as a cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they didn’t mean that as a compliment,” said Paul Butler, a law professor at Georgetown, himself a former public prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/8640x5760+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcb%2F52%2F2ea9d3ae409eb0294aeb69cedca6%2Fgettyimages-2154742700.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after he was found guilty in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024.\">\u003cfigcaption>Former President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after he was found guilty in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pool | Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The message hits differently in 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This time around, though, Butler said Harris’ history as a prosecutor might be perceived by voters differently — because voters’ perceptions of public safety, criminal justice and Trump have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some ways, the prosecution of Donald Trump has flipped the way that some progressives and some conservatives think about our criminal legal system,” Butler said. “Now, a lot of people that are on the left are all-in on prosecuting, holding Donald Trump accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said Harris will likely use her experience as a prosecutor to try to highlight her centrist politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her message to more conservative audiences will be that her policies as district attorney and California state attorney general demonstrate that she’s not soft on crime,” Butler said. “But her message to progressive audiences will be that her prosecutorial experiences give her unique expertise on the problems in the system and how to fix them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4500x3000+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdf%2F46%2F09b26908486390ee1bef4b0bd84a%2Fgettyimages-1241726005.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Harris speaks with police officers after a shooting that left seven people dead in Highland Park, Ill., on July 5, 2022.\">\u003cfigcaption>Vice President Harris speaks with police officers after a shooting that left seven people dead in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 5, 2022. \u003ccite> (Kamil Krzaczynski | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Harris’ pitch was to be ‘smart’ on crime\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trying to tack to the middle on justice issues has long been a part of Harris’ strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Harris, a courtroom prosecutor, launched her first political campaign, running for district attorney of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She rejected the idea that law enforcement officials either had to be tough on crime or soft on crime, said David Chiu, a friend who was part of Harris’ “kitchen cabinet” at the time. Instead, she wanted to be “smart” on crime, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about getting those conviction rates up, but at the same time thinking about what recidivism rates are and using data to manage reform and accountability,” said Chiu, now San Francisco City Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Harris became district attorney, she started initiatives like Back on Track, a job training program for first-time nonviolent offenders. Supporters of Harris said that the program and other efforts by Harris were ahead of her time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some other efforts received criticism — especially her work to cut down on truancy, which criminalized parents whose kids were missing school. That history was one that concerned many voters in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allies like Chiu, though, said times have changed. “It was a very different time in 2003 than it is in ‘24,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before I was elected as vice president before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I’ve mentioned, of California. And before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12690/democrats-rally-behind-vice-president-harris\">said to campaign staffers\u003c/a> in Wilmington, Del., on the day after Biden endorsed her to take his place at the top of the Democratic ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds — predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So, hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type,” Harris said in a line that has become the centerpiece of her whirlwind campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3400x2544+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3b%2F04%2Fc3bdfbaa4e35a64898c01ca143a9%2Fgettyimages-455195032.jpg\" alt=\"Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris briefs the media after raids on money laundering operations in Los Angeles on Sept. 10, 2014.\">\u003cfigcaption>Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris briefs the media after raids on money laundering operations in Los Angeles on Sept. 10, 2014. \u003ccite>(Mark Ralston | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>It’s rhetoric Harris has used before\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 2019, when she first ran for president, Harris’ campaign was centered on her career as a prosecutor. Her slogan was “for the people,” which is how Harris introduced herself in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her pitch to voters is the same today: that, with her background as a prosecutor, she is the best person to take on Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784443227/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race\">five years ago\u003c/a>, Harris’ record as a prosecutor was a liability in her campaign. She faced attacks from her Democratic opponents in the primary debates on her record with marijuana and on cracking down on truancy rates. Voters on the left referred to Harris as a cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they didn’t mean that as a compliment,” said Paul Butler, a law professor at Georgetown, himself a former public prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/8640x5760+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcb%2F52%2F2ea9d3ae409eb0294aeb69cedca6%2Fgettyimages-2154742700.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after he was found guilty in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024.\">\u003cfigcaption>Former President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after he was found guilty in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pool | Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The message hits differently in 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This time around, though, Butler said Harris’ history as a prosecutor might be perceived by voters differently — because voters’ perceptions of public safety, criminal justice and Trump have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some ways, the prosecution of Donald Trump has flipped the way that some progressives and some conservatives think about our criminal legal system,” Butler said. “Now, a lot of people that are on the left are all-in on prosecuting, holding Donald Trump accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said Harris will likely use her experience as a prosecutor to try to highlight her centrist politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her message to more conservative audiences will be that her policies as district attorney and California state attorney general demonstrate that she’s not soft on crime,” Butler said. “But her message to progressive audiences will be that her prosecutorial experiences give her unique expertise on the problems in the system and how to fix them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4500x3000+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdf%2F46%2F09b26908486390ee1bef4b0bd84a%2Fgettyimages-1241726005.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Harris speaks with police officers after a shooting that left seven people dead in Highland Park, Ill., on July 5, 2022.\">\u003cfigcaption>Vice President Harris speaks with police officers after a shooting that left seven people dead in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 5, 2022. \u003ccite> (Kamil Krzaczynski | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Harris’ pitch was to be ‘smart’ on crime\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trying to tack to the middle on justice issues has long been a part of Harris’ strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Harris, a courtroom prosecutor, launched her first political campaign, running for district attorney of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She rejected the idea that law enforcement officials either had to be tough on crime or soft on crime, said David Chiu, a friend who was part of Harris’ “kitchen cabinet” at the time. Instead, she wanted to be “smart” on crime, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about getting those conviction rates up, but at the same time thinking about what recidivism rates are and using data to manage reform and accountability,” said Chiu, now San Francisco City Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Harris became district attorney, she started initiatives like Back on Track, a job training program for first-time nonviolent offenders. Supporters of Harris said that the program and other efforts by Harris were ahead of her time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some other efforts received criticism — especially her work to cut down on truancy, which criminalized parents whose kids were missing school. That history was one that concerned many voters in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allies like Chiu, though, said times have changed. “It was a very different time in 2003 than it is in ‘24,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "California Is a Piggy Bank for Kamala Harris — and Donald Trump. Here's How They're Trying to Cash In",
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"content": "\u003cp>Within a minute or two, a free Sunday turned into a fundraising frenzy for Dale Schroedel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race and endorsed Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/kamala-harris/\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a>, Schroedel — a San Francisco Democratic fundraiser for female candidates — was flooded with texts, calls and emails. From her living room, she began contacting donors for Harris for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was non-stop … and I barely remember what happened the rest of the day,” said Schroedel, who raised money for Hillary Clinton’s two presidential bids and Rep. Barbara Lee’s U.S. Senate campaign this year. “The day was suddenly gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feverish fundraising highlights the historical significance of California money in presidential races. For decades, Democrats and Republicans alike have looked to the Golden State’s wealthiest donors. California — boasting ultra-affluent Silicon Valley and star-studded Hollywood — is often the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/raising-bythenumbers/\">top-giving state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see candidates making appearances in California, that’s just them making an appearance since they are here raising money,” said Republican consultant Jon Fleischman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The term that I prefer to use is performing a ‘cash-ectomy,’ which is really what it is,” he said. “It’s the surgical removal of cash from everybody’s pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wealth is already helping Harris, an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/kamala-harris-california-background/\">Oakland native and California’s favorite daughter\u003c/a> who has decades-long personal relationships with some of the most prolific fundraisers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-campaign-biden-drop-out/big-donors-00170367\">Some California Democratic mega donors\u003c/a> — many of whom had paused their donations to Biden — pledged hundreds of millions to support Harris. Within 24 hours of Biden’s announcement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-07-22/kamala-harris-record-breaking-81-million-presidential-bid#:~:text=Vice%20President%20Kamala%20Harris%20raised,such%20a%20period%20in%20history.\">Harris raised a historic $81 million\u003c/a> nationwide — the most anyone has ever raised in such a period in American history — including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-fundraising-democrat-president-biden-trump-434a55ea1eb29e5da92cc9b1f9cb401f\">more than 500,000\u003c/a> first-time donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris isn’t the only one with California ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio — former President Donald Trump’s running mate — brings a network of tech executives and crypto investors he built in the nearly five years he spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html\">working in Silicon Valley\u003c/a>. The experience is paying off: Vance frequently attends \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html\">private dinners\u003c/a> with tech moguls, many of whom have publicly endorsed the Republican ticket. A Vance fundraiser is set for Monday in Silicon Valley: \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/teddyschleifer/status/1815751711601868970\">$15,000 for dinner and a photo\u003c/a>, $3,300 just for the meal. On Wednesday, he’s scheduled to collect checks at \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/post/republican-vice-presidential-nominee-jd-vance-coming-coalinga/15069748/\">Harris Ranch in Coalinga\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s our money’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, California has been a cash cow for Democrats nationwide. In 2020, money from the state helped Democrats book “every ad time slot” on TV in Atlanta and Philadelphia, said Christian Grose, professor of political science and public policy at the University of Southern California. Those are the biggest TV markets in those two key swing states, which helped put Biden in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that same fundraising power served as leverage to force Biden to bow out of the 2024 race, Grose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-06-15/biden-obama-celebrities-raise-millions-in-l-a-for-presidents-reelection-bid\">At a Hollywood fundraiser earlier this year\u003c/a> featuring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, Biden and former President Barack Obama raised $30 million. But the event left Clooney so concerned about Biden’s mental and physical decline that he penned an opinion piece urging the president to withdraw. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F— deal’ Biden of 2010,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-nominee.html\">Clooney wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The significance of Hollywood donors — and the potential of losing them — “is what was so frightening to the Democrats,” Grose said, because that money could fund campaign staffers and get-out-to-vote efforts in key swing states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it appears Hollywood is \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-07-24/hollywood-power-brokers-pushed-for-biden-to-step-down-now-theyre-stepping-up-for-harris?sfmc_id=6532aaaf25b3640666e1785c&skey_id=7e620d2a1f1d2285f074ab51185984300f0a193a148c3979bc4d5e30d90578da&utm_id=36166407&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Essential%20California&utm_term=Newsletter%20-%20Essential%20California\">embracing Harris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money will add onto Biden’s warchest that Harris inherited. Between Jan. 1, 2023 and June 30, the Democratic presidential campaign account and allied groups had raised almost $54 million from Californians who each contributed more than $200, according to a CalMatters analysis of campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden-Harris campaign committee alone raised almost $30 million from California. That is more than the $29.4 million raised by Trump’s campaign and 15 other pro-Trump groups combined from California donors who gave more than $200 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California is solidly Democratic in presidential races, it is still a fundraising powerhouse for Republicans since it has more GOP voters than any other state, said Fleischman, who noted that Trump collected more money from California than any other state in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the money Trump and Vance raise in California will likely be spent in battleground states, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our votes are no longer the commodity that makes California relevant in the presidential elections. It’s our money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Shot of adrenaline’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Harris, California donors will likely be critical, and she may have a better shot at their money than during her 2020 presidential bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-2020-campaign-was-mess-ended-ticket-time-lot-different-rcna162737\">Harris — then a first-term U.S. senator from California — was struggling to raise\u003c/a> the necessary cash to stand out in the crowded Democratic primary field. \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/11/kamala-harris-bundlers-are-funding-other/\">Half of her bundlers\u003c/a> — fundraisers collecting checks on her behalf — were also bundling for her rivals and donating to them as early as a month after Harris launched her campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a day after Harris became Biden’s chosen successor, she raised $81 million, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P00009423/?cycle=2020&election_full=true\">almost double\u003c/a> the $44 million she raised over the entire 11 months of her earlier campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sunday Zoom fundraising call organized by a group called “Win With Black Women” drew more than 44,000 participants and another 50,000 “couldn’t get on” the call, said Schroedel, the Democratic fundraiser. The event raised \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-22/how-44-000-black-women-galvanized-support-for-kamala-harris-on-sunday-night?srnd=homepage-asia&embedded-checkout=true\">$1.5 million\u003c/a> in three hours, Bloomberg reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The momentum behind Harris “defies every stereotype imaginable,” Schroedel said. Historically, Black women running for office have had a hard time \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/gender-identity/black-women-are-running-for-office-in-historic-numbers-but-they-arent-getting-the-financial-support-they-need-records-show/\">mustering enough financial support\u003c/a>, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of Biden’s withdrawal and endorsement has helped Harris, Schroedel said. Harris \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/07/biden-drops-out-california-delegates/\">quickly consolidated support among party delegates\u003c/a> and key Democratic leaders, leaving little room for others to challenge her. “It’s the opportunity of the moment,” Schroedel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are now looking to Harris to prevent a second term for Trump, Schroedel added. Harris also holds a bolder stance \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/harris-bold-abortion-stance-impact-2024-election-biden-exit-rcna163016\">on abortion rights\u003c/a> than Biden, who \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harris-abortion-biden-election-congress-0df7d4956b4323b77139f55f7fe22a75\">rarely uttered the term “abortion,”\u003c/a> Schroedel said: “She’s willing and able to speak about it in a much deeper and personal, profound way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AngeliqueAshby/status/1815900315625087349\">Thursday call for Democratic women\u003c/a> featuring state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/angelique-ashby-165434\">Angelique Ashby\u003c/a>, a Sacramento Democrat, participants hailed from Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona. Speakers deemed the November election a fight about advancing reproductive freedom or going backward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the scariest thing in this moment is that the men in this race, the men on the opposing side, would like to define us,” Ashby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Ellis, a San Francisco activist, urged participants — especially Black women — to volunteer and contribute to races up and down the ballot. “This moment isn’t just about electing the first woman president to the United States of America. This moment is also about retaking Congress, keeping the Senate, flipping those swing districts that we need to and making sure we elect women, women of color and Black women at the local level,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fundraising momentum demonstrates excitement for Harris, and Harris-related memes have gone viral on social media platforms, which could resonate with young voters, said Kevin Liao, a Democratic consultant who worked on Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid and then on Biden’s campaign in Nevada in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The party was in a doldrums after that first debate,” Liao said. “(Harris) was just like a shot of adrenaline and energy into the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ personal relationships could help open doors. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, was an \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/23/doug-emhoff-kamala-harris-husband/\">entertainment industry attorney\u003c/a> in Los Angeles for 30 years, and Harris is also friends with some Democratic mega donors and fundraisers such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-buell-harris-20190201-story.html\">Susie Tompkins Buell\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.essence.com/news/california-attorney-general-kamala-harris-americas-next-black-female-senator/\">Chrisette Hudlin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her existing relationships, combined with the sort of donors being less excited about Biden, has made her really situated to benefit quite a bit,” Grose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Silicon Valley elegy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Personal relationships Vance has cultivated in Silicon Valley have also helped solidify support for Trump among some of California’s wealthiest, even though the area \u003ca href=\"https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/106043/web.264614/#/summary\">overwhelmingly backed Biden\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Vance held a fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco and introduced prominent entrepreneurs — including David Sacks — to the former president, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> reported. A few days later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/politics/trump-sacks-silicon-valley-donors.html\">Sacks hosted Trump\u003c/a> at his own $20 million mansion in the Pacific Heights neighborhood, raising more than $12 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got a fellow tech-savvy, venture capitalist who’s now in the race to be the second most powerful person in America and a potential frontrunner for president in four years, that sounds kind of cool,” Fleischman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997714\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Donald Trump (right) stands with Sen. J.D. Vance, his Republican running mate, at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on July 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tom Brenner/Reuters via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite his time in California, Vance is better known for “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling memoir about growing up poor in Ohio. It is that dual background that could help Trump make inroads among Silicon Valley’s economically conservative donors, while also winning working-class votes in midwestern states, said Cathy Abernathy, longtime GOP strategist and an ally to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech world and the rust belt are somehow in the same wavelength with someone like Vance,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Trump picked Vance, some Silicon Valley tycoons were already warming up to the former president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla CEO Elon Musk, for example, endorsed Trump shortly after the assassination attempt two weeks ago, and his allies helped start a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-super-pac.html\">super PAC\u003c/a> to support Trump. Hedge fund executive \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/18/trump-jd-vance-silicon-valley-musk-gop/\">Bill Ackman\u003c/a>, who has largely supported Democrats, also endorsed Trump following the shooting. Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, who founded venture capital firm A16Z, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/co-founders-of-silicon-valley-venture-capital-firm-back-trump-presidential-bid\">are also backing Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two decades, it was hard raising money for Republicans in the Bay area, where only Democrats got elected, Abernathy said. But the growing public support from some Silicon Valley executives signals the increasing dissatisfaction with Democratic policies on tech, tax and crime, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-07-18/why-some-silicon-valley-investors-are-backing-the-trump-vance-campaign\">Some executives\u003c/a> have pointed to the Biden administration’s antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Google, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-ends-probe-into-paxos-over-binance-usd-token-73aeb78a\">federal investigations\u003c/a> into crypto businesses and Biden’s proposal to increase capital gains taxes, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much rhetoric do you need to hear that the rich don’t pay enough and we want to raise more taxes?” Fleischman said. “Well, at some point, rich people don’t really like to hear that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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California — boasting ultra-affluent Silicon Valley and star-studded Hollywood — is often the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/raising-bythenumbers/\">top-giving state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see candidates making appearances in California, that’s just them making an appearance since they are here raising money,” said Republican consultant Jon Fleischman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The term that I prefer to use is performing a ‘cash-ectomy,’ which is really what it is,” he said. “It’s the surgical removal of cash from everybody’s pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wealth is already helping Harris, an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/kamala-harris-california-background/\">Oakland native and California’s favorite daughter\u003c/a> who has decades-long personal relationships with some of the most prolific fundraisers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-campaign-biden-drop-out/big-donors-00170367\">Some California Democratic mega donors\u003c/a> — many of whom had paused their donations to Biden — pledged hundreds of millions to support Harris. Within 24 hours of Biden’s announcement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-07-22/kamala-harris-record-breaking-81-million-presidential-bid#:~:text=Vice%20President%20Kamala%20Harris%20raised,such%20a%20period%20in%20history.\">Harris raised a historic $81 million\u003c/a> nationwide — the most anyone has ever raised in such a period in American history — including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-fundraising-democrat-president-biden-trump-434a55ea1eb29e5da92cc9b1f9cb401f\">more than 500,000\u003c/a> first-time donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris isn’t the only one with California ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio — former President Donald Trump’s running mate — brings a network of tech executives and crypto investors he built in the nearly five years he spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html\">working in Silicon Valley\u003c/a>. The experience is paying off: Vance frequently attends \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html\">private dinners\u003c/a> with tech moguls, many of whom have publicly endorsed the Republican ticket. A Vance fundraiser is set for Monday in Silicon Valley: \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/teddyschleifer/status/1815751711601868970\">$15,000 for dinner and a photo\u003c/a>, $3,300 just for the meal. On Wednesday, he’s scheduled to collect checks at \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/post/republican-vice-presidential-nominee-jd-vance-coming-coalinga/15069748/\">Harris Ranch in Coalinga\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s our money’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, California has been a cash cow for Democrats nationwide. In 2020, money from the state helped Democrats book “every ad time slot” on TV in Atlanta and Philadelphia, said Christian Grose, professor of political science and public policy at the University of Southern California. Those are the biggest TV markets in those two key swing states, which helped put Biden in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that same fundraising power served as leverage to force Biden to bow out of the 2024 race, Grose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-06-15/biden-obama-celebrities-raise-millions-in-l-a-for-presidents-reelection-bid\">At a Hollywood fundraiser earlier this year\u003c/a> featuring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, Biden and former President Barack Obama raised $30 million. But the event left Clooney so concerned about Biden’s mental and physical decline that he penned an opinion piece urging the president to withdraw. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F— deal’ Biden of 2010,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-nominee.html\">Clooney wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The significance of Hollywood donors — and the potential of losing them — “is what was so frightening to the Democrats,” Grose said, because that money could fund campaign staffers and get-out-to-vote efforts in key swing states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it appears Hollywood is \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-07-24/hollywood-power-brokers-pushed-for-biden-to-step-down-now-theyre-stepping-up-for-harris?sfmc_id=6532aaaf25b3640666e1785c&skey_id=7e620d2a1f1d2285f074ab51185984300f0a193a148c3979bc4d5e30d90578da&utm_id=36166407&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Essential%20California&utm_term=Newsletter%20-%20Essential%20California\">embracing Harris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money will add onto Biden’s warchest that Harris inherited. Between Jan. 1, 2023 and June 30, the Democratic presidential campaign account and allied groups had raised almost $54 million from Californians who each contributed more than $200, according to a CalMatters analysis of campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden-Harris campaign committee alone raised almost $30 million from California. That is more than the $29.4 million raised by Trump’s campaign and 15 other pro-Trump groups combined from California donors who gave more than $200 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California is solidly Democratic in presidential races, it is still a fundraising powerhouse for Republicans since it has more GOP voters than any other state, said Fleischman, who noted that Trump collected more money from California than any other state in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the money Trump and Vance raise in California will likely be spent in battleground states, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our votes are no longer the commodity that makes California relevant in the presidential elections. It’s our money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Shot of adrenaline’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Harris, California donors will likely be critical, and she may have a better shot at their money than during her 2020 presidential bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-2020-campaign-was-mess-ended-ticket-time-lot-different-rcna162737\">Harris — then a first-term U.S. senator from California — was struggling to raise\u003c/a> the necessary cash to stand out in the crowded Democratic primary field. \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/11/kamala-harris-bundlers-are-funding-other/\">Half of her bundlers\u003c/a> — fundraisers collecting checks on her behalf — were also bundling for her rivals and donating to them as early as a month after Harris launched her campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a day after Harris became Biden’s chosen successor, she raised $81 million, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P00009423/?cycle=2020&election_full=true\">almost double\u003c/a> the $44 million she raised over the entire 11 months of her earlier campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sunday Zoom fundraising call organized by a group called “Win With Black Women” drew more than 44,000 participants and another 50,000 “couldn’t get on” the call, said Schroedel, the Democratic fundraiser. The event raised \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-22/how-44-000-black-women-galvanized-support-for-kamala-harris-on-sunday-night?srnd=homepage-asia&embedded-checkout=true\">$1.5 million\u003c/a> in three hours, Bloomberg reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The momentum behind Harris “defies every stereotype imaginable,” Schroedel said. Historically, Black women running for office have had a hard time \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/gender-identity/black-women-are-running-for-office-in-historic-numbers-but-they-arent-getting-the-financial-support-they-need-records-show/\">mustering enough financial support\u003c/a>, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of Biden’s withdrawal and endorsement has helped Harris, Schroedel said. Harris \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/07/biden-drops-out-california-delegates/\">quickly consolidated support among party delegates\u003c/a> and key Democratic leaders, leaving little room for others to challenge her. “It’s the opportunity of the moment,” Schroedel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are now looking to Harris to prevent a second term for Trump, Schroedel added. Harris also holds a bolder stance \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/harris-bold-abortion-stance-impact-2024-election-biden-exit-rcna163016\">on abortion rights\u003c/a> than Biden, who \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harris-abortion-biden-election-congress-0df7d4956b4323b77139f55f7fe22a75\">rarely uttered the term “abortion,”\u003c/a> Schroedel said: “She’s willing and able to speak about it in a much deeper and personal, profound way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AngeliqueAshby/status/1815900315625087349\">Thursday call for Democratic women\u003c/a> featuring state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/angelique-ashby-165434\">Angelique Ashby\u003c/a>, a Sacramento Democrat, participants hailed from Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona. Speakers deemed the November election a fight about advancing reproductive freedom or going backward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the scariest thing in this moment is that the men in this race, the men on the opposing side, would like to define us,” Ashby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Ellis, a San Francisco activist, urged participants — especially Black women — to volunteer and contribute to races up and down the ballot. “This moment isn’t just about electing the first woman president to the United States of America. This moment is also about retaking Congress, keeping the Senate, flipping those swing districts that we need to and making sure we elect women, women of color and Black women at the local level,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fundraising momentum demonstrates excitement for Harris, and Harris-related memes have gone viral on social media platforms, which could resonate with young voters, said Kevin Liao, a Democratic consultant who worked on Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid and then on Biden’s campaign in Nevada in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The party was in a doldrums after that first debate,” Liao said. “(Harris) was just like a shot of adrenaline and energy into the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ personal relationships could help open doors. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, was an \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/23/doug-emhoff-kamala-harris-husband/\">entertainment industry attorney\u003c/a> in Los Angeles for 30 years, and Harris is also friends with some Democratic mega donors and fundraisers such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-buell-harris-20190201-story.html\">Susie Tompkins Buell\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.essence.com/news/california-attorney-general-kamala-harris-americas-next-black-female-senator/\">Chrisette Hudlin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her existing relationships, combined with the sort of donors being less excited about Biden, has made her really situated to benefit quite a bit,” Grose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Silicon Valley elegy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Personal relationships Vance has cultivated in Silicon Valley have also helped solidify support for Trump among some of California’s wealthiest, even though the area \u003ca href=\"https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/106043/web.264614/#/summary\">overwhelmingly backed Biden\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Vance held a fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco and introduced prominent entrepreneurs — including David Sacks — to the former president, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> reported. A few days later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/politics/trump-sacks-silicon-valley-donors.html\">Sacks hosted Trump\u003c/a> at his own $20 million mansion in the Pacific Heights neighborhood, raising more than $12 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got a fellow tech-savvy, venture capitalist who’s now in the race to be the second most powerful person in America and a potential frontrunner for president in four years, that sounds kind of cool,” Fleischman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997714\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Donald Trump (right) stands with Sen. J.D. Vance, his Republican running mate, at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on July 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tom Brenner/Reuters via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite his time in California, Vance is better known for “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling memoir about growing up poor in Ohio. It is that dual background that could help Trump make inroads among Silicon Valley’s economically conservative donors, while also winning working-class votes in midwestern states, said Cathy Abernathy, longtime GOP strategist and an ally to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech world and the rust belt are somehow in the same wavelength with someone like Vance,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Trump picked Vance, some Silicon Valley tycoons were already warming up to the former president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla CEO Elon Musk, for example, endorsed Trump shortly after the assassination attempt two weeks ago, and his allies helped start a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-super-pac.html\">super PAC\u003c/a> to support Trump. Hedge fund executive \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/18/trump-jd-vance-silicon-valley-musk-gop/\">Bill Ackman\u003c/a>, who has largely supported Democrats, also endorsed Trump following the shooting. Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, who founded venture capital firm A16Z, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/co-founders-of-silicon-valley-venture-capital-firm-back-trump-presidential-bid\">are also backing Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two decades, it was hard raising money for Republicans in the Bay area, where only Democrats got elected, Abernathy said. 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