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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But many Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13327/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme-context-unburdened-in-the-context\">have embraced the coconut tree imagery\u003c/a> and on TikTok and Instagram, young people are making viral videos that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93K1pVBMUh/\">remix the coconut tree clip with songs from Charli XCX’s latest album, \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-07-24/kamala-harris-memes-coconut-brat-summer\">a plethora of explainers out there\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/24/entertainment/memes-kamala-harris\">try to explain the meaning behind the different coconut tree memes\u003c/a>, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/kamala-harris-brat-meaning-mean-slang-charli-xcx-what-does-hq-rcna163026\">what links Harris with Charli XCX\u003c/a> in the first place. But in the spirit of the original speech that started it all, we wanted to understand the context of all in which these memes live in and what came before them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with two other KQED journalists with deep experience in covering both politics and Gen Z culture — politics correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">Marisa Lagos\u003c/a> and host of The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbolanos\">Madi Bolaños\u003c/a> — to talk about how the state of the 2024 race, Harris’ political trajectory and questions of both gender and race brought us some of these viral Harris memes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996837/who-is-kamala-harris-a-look-back-at-kqeds-coverage\">\u003cstrong>you’ve covered Kamala Harris for a long time\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Does this image of Harris laughing at herself, being genuine in these moments, square up with what you’ve seen of her over the years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> Totally. She, in my experience as a reporter, was at her best, off the record when she wasn’t having to think about what she was saying because she is legitimately funny and warm. And I think that’s a hard thing sometimes, especially as a woman of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s put a very fine point on it: The reason that Republicans have used her laughing and her persona to attack her [comes with the] subtext that she’s not serious enough to be a leader. It’s very clearly pointed as a dog whistle at some of her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, that is what makes her a good politician. I have seen her in a room with people, and she’s really good at connecting, it’s retail politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even for people like me who have covered her for two decades, this seems way more authentic than the “serious Kamala Harris buttoned-down” politician trope. And let’s be real, she has to push [that forward] in certain situations. It is a serious job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Marisa, to your point that Republicans have used her laughter to argue that she’s not serious. That’s what Gen Z loves about her. The word right now for Gen Z is ‘unserious.’ … Gen Z is eating that up for breakfast, lunch and dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They really are big fans of how carefree she is. It’s interesting that what they try to use against her is what’s working in her favor right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Annie_Wu_22/status/1815470696719593909\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about “seriousness” more. Part of Donald Trump’s appeal to his supporters is that he does not behave like other politicians. He can say anything he wants and that makes him a man of the people. On the other hand, female politicians who have sought the presidency, like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, worked a lot on presenting themselves as very serious politicians to appeal to voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And now, we’re seeing certain voters respond positively to a female politician who embraces her humor and her more authentic self. Could we be seeing a shift in what’s expected of women in politics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I hope so. God, I hope so. I do think it’s too early to know because she’d have to win for that shift to really be realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she can win, I do think that this opens new doors and avenues for female leaders to be themselves and not have to just fit in a box. What we’ve seen historically, I feel, is women being expected to act like men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s women like Nancy Pelosi that have turned some of that on their head, especially just in the way she presents herself. She’s a very feminine person. And I think that in itself is unique because Kamala does not dress the way that Pelosi does. She’s been a prosecutor. She wore dark suits. That’s been her vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She loosened it up on the campaign trail four years ago. She’s got that look with the blazer, jeans and Converse tennis shoes going on, which, I will say, is one of my looks when I’m out reporting. I tell people, “This is my Kamala look,” and they know what I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Regardless if she wins or not, she is changing the culture of how you can present yourself in these spaces and also engaging a lot of people … who otherwise wouldn’t have cared very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My cousin who’s 18 and has \u003cem>never \u003c/em>talked to me about politics randomly, no context, sent me \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNunEq6o/\">a TikTok, featuring the Charli XCX song ‘Girl, so confusing version with lorde’\u003c/a> and it has different clips of Kamala and Hillary Clinton. And again, we do not talk about anything political, ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson/video/7389827831796157739\" data-video-id=\"7389827831796157739\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@flextillerson\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@flextillerson\u003c/a> i hope they work it out on the remix \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bratsummer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bratsummer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#bratsummer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"coconuttree\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coconuttree?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#coconuttree\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"girlsoconfusing\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/girlsoconfusing?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#girlsoconfusing\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"lorde\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lorde?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#lorde\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"hillaryclinton\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hillaryclinton?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#hillaryclinton\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - aly\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7389827861015202602?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – aly\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about Charli XCX. There’s so many \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/kamala-harris-charli-xcx-brat-memes.html\">\u003cstrong>stories out there that try to explain why young people are making these TikToks\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> remixing Harris clips with songs from \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>. Madi, when journalists try to explain Gen Z humor, what do you think is missing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> I think that it’s hilarious to see older people try to understand something that is also kind of hard to explain. It’s one of those things that “if you know, you know.” It’s a vibe. You can’t explain a vibe online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have to be online all the time.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Exactly. When it’s coming from someone who just exists in that vibe, you’re already there. You don’t have to explain anything. You can just talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas these older people are like 20, 50 chapters behind — they’re still trying to wrap their minds around what this can be — when the conversation could be so much more forward if everyone was just on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that being said, even those conversations are being turned into memes and audio sounds. One conversation with a Fox News reporter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert/video/7394997370238323998\">people are putting that on TikTok\u003c/a> and saying, ‘this is kind of brat.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert/video/7394997370238323998\" data-video-id=\"7394997370238323998\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@megagahubert\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@megagahubert\u003c/a> the brats are so assembling. Lfg project coconut!!! 💚 \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"harris2024\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/harris2024?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#harris2024\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"election\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/election?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#election\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalahq\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalahq?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalahq\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ brats run the world - megaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/brats-run-the-world-7394997349795351327?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ brats run the world – megaga\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This is also humor that takes the same thing and applies it to a different context, over and over again — which is very much a product of internet culture. And young people now have been online since elementary school.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anatomyofafall/video/7390902639271169310\" data-video-id=\"7390902639271169310\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@anatomyofafall\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anatomyofafall?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@anatomyofafall\u003c/a> this is what will flash before your eyes the moment right before you die \u003ca title=\"foryou\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/foryou?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#foryou\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"trending\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/trending?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#trending\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"popculture\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/popculture?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#popculture\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"biden\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/biden?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#biden\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"2024election\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/2024election?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#2024election\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ coconut tree core - m🕺🎞️\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/coconut-tree-core-7390902669105253150?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ coconut tree core – m🕺🎞️\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s stay on the topic of Charli XCX’s support for Harris. It’s been a while since celebrity endorsements made \u003cem>such \u003c/em>a splash — the only other recent example is \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/taylor-swift-endorses-joe-biden-president-n1242483\">\u003cstrong>Taylor Swift endorsing Joe Biden in 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Celebrity endorsements were such a bigger deal in the 2000s and 2010s as we saw with both Obama campaigns. Marisa, how do celebrity endorsements usually play out for candidates?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I think like anything in politics, the hope is: It can get you attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not enough to win, right? These things are far more complicated than that. And this isn’t going to be enough for Kamala Harris to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that there’s ways that you can take these pop culture references — endorsements, things like that — and play them out to engage people or to excite people. Maybe you were going to go vote for her anyway, but now you’re going to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not ever going to be the silver bullet to winning the presidency. We have to remember that this is still going to be a race decided in a handful of states by a handful of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1815182384066707861\">\u003cstrong>Charli XCX sent out that tweet for Harris\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, we also had some folks react to this with some cringe:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lllliatttt/status/1815455947814584545\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’re having fun right now with this politics-pop culture crossover — at the moment, it feels like a slay — but when does a slay become cringe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> I think that it becomes a cringe when they lean into it too hard. I think Hillary [Clinton] leaned into it way too hard. There’s a way to be a part of the joke without being \u003cem>in \u003c/em>the group chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamala doing her thing and then having her campaign take these natural moments and make it into more memes, that’s what’s really working right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she were to go online and say, “Hey, I’m brat,” that would get a little cringe. I don’t think she can acknowledge it too directly. She has to just keep doing what she’s doing, because that creates the memes itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqednews/video/7395672242350214442\" data-video-id=\"7395672242350214442\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@kqednews\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqednews?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kqednews\u003c/a>You’ve seen the memes, the fan edits, the internet discourse – Here’s a rundown of how the Internet rallied around Kamala Harris by getting to work making edits of Harris’s memorable moments set to songs from Charli XCX’s sixth album, Brat.\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - KQED News\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7395672230607113003?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – KQED News\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about “seriousness” more. Part of Donald Trump’s appeal to his supporters is that he does not behave like other politicians. He can say anything he wants and that makes him a man of the people. On the other hand, female politicians who have sought the presidency, like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, worked a lot on presenting themselves as very serious politicians to appeal to voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And now, we’re seeing certain voters respond positively to a female politician who embraces her humor and her more authentic self. Could we be seeing a shift in what’s expected of women in politics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I hope so. God, I hope so. I do think it’s too early to know because she’d have to win for that shift to really be realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she can win, I do think that this opens new doors and avenues for female leaders to be themselves and not have to just fit in a box. What we’ve seen historically, I feel, is women being expected to act like men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s women like Nancy Pelosi that have turned some of that on their head, especially just in the way she presents herself. She’s a very feminine person. And I think that in itself is unique because Kamala does not dress the way that Pelosi does. She’s been a prosecutor. She wore dark suits. That’s been her vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She loosened it up on the campaign trail four years ago. She’s got that look with the blazer, jeans and Converse tennis shoes going on, which, I will say, is one of my looks when I’m out reporting. I tell people, “This is my Kamala look,” and they know what I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Regardless if she wins or not, she is changing the culture of how you can present yourself in these spaces and also engaging a lot of people … who otherwise wouldn’t have cared very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My cousin who’s 18 and has \u003cem>never \u003c/em>talked to me about politics randomly, no context, sent me \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNunEq6o/\">a TikTok, featuring the Charli XCX song ‘Girl, so confusing version with lorde’\u003c/a> and it has different clips of Kamala and Hillary Clinton. And again, we do not talk about anything political, ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson/video/7389827831796157739\" data-video-id=\"7389827831796157739\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@flextillerson\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@flextillerson\u003c/a> i hope they work it out on the remix \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bratsummer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bratsummer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#bratsummer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"coconuttree\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coconuttree?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#coconuttree\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"girlsoconfusing\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/girlsoconfusing?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#girlsoconfusing\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"lorde\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lorde?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#lorde\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"hillaryclinton\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hillaryclinton?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#hillaryclinton\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - aly\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7389827861015202602?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – aly\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993505/cleanup-of-san-francisco-superfund-site-has-been-badly-mishandled-lawsuit-alleges\">Superfund site is still contaminated\u003c/a> with heavy metals and radioactive waste, even after the Navy ceased operations in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have liked to see more aggressive prosecution of those who contaminated the shipyard and more action to ensure that there be a proper cleanup,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.leefang.com/p/kamala-harris-greenwashed-justice\">recent investigation\u003c/a> by independent reporter Lee Fang, Harris’ environmental justice unit ultimately only filed a handful of lawsuits against relatively small entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be fair to say we feel she could have done more in her role here in San Francisco,” Angel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as California attorney general, Harris stepped up her efforts to hold polluters accountable. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-settlement-over-diesel-engine-exhaust\">she reached a settlement\u003c/a> with the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to reduce diesel engine emissions and to properly warn nearby residents about the high levels of diesel exhaust. In 2016, she helped\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-indictment-plains-all-american\"> bring criminal charges\u003c/a> against a pipeline operator responsible for a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara the year prior. She also \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/pge-found-guilty-obstruction-agency-proceeding-and-multiple-violations-natural-gas\">took on PG&E\u003c/a> for its role in the San Bruno pipeline explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has a very long record on climate change and environmental justice and has really put protecting communities at the center of a lot of her work,” said Leah Stokes, associate professor at UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Harris joined the Biden administration, environmental issues have become an even higher priority for her, Stokes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supporting the Inflation Reduction Act and the Green New Deal, she \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/epa-billions-clean-green-energy-community-grants-8f6c76cb41783a5e838ac4f7f7cce086\">sponsored “green bank” legislation\u003c/a> to provide funding for low-income communities to reduce their carbon footprints. She also worked on legislation to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/10/26/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-on-investments-in-clean-school-buses/\">transition to electric school buses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just that she cast that deciding vote for those climate laws,” Stokes said. “It’s also that her ideas were really at the heart of the entire package.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If former President Donald Trump\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997168/california-largely-won-its-climate-fight-with-trump-round-2-could-be-tougher\"> is elected to the White House\u003c/a> in November, Stokes said, all that progress will be for naught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a man who does not believe in climate science. Who appointed people who do not believe in climate science to run the Department of Energy and our Environmental Protection Agency,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel, the Greenaction executive director, agreed that a second Trump term would be catastrophic for the environment. But, he said, if Harris is elected, he hopes she does more for the country than she did for the city where she got her start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lesser of two evils is not good enough,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Environmental groups have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2024/07/leading-environmental-and-climate-organizations-endorse-vice-president\">quick to endorse\u003c/a> Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, touting the Biden-Harris administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">climate accomplishments\u003c/a>. Harris herself cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the landmark \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/cleanenergy/inflation-reduction-act-guidebook/\">Inflation Reduction Act\u003c/a>, which unleashed hundreds of billions of dollars for the transition to clean energy and electric vehicles, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before she was vice president, Harris had a mixed record of tackling environmental issues as a California prosecutor — one that appears to have strengthened with time, advocates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco district attorney in 2005, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-D-A-creates-environmental-unit-2666667.php\">created one of the first environmental justice units\u003c/a> of any DA’s office in the country. The goal was to tackle pollution in the city that was disproportionately happening in poorer neighborhoods like Bayview-Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Not even 24 hours after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996616/biden-ends-reelection-campaign-leaving-democrats-next-steps-unclear\">Joe Biden announced his exit from the presidential race on Sunday\u003c/a>, Republican strategists had a new target: Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Harris became the likely Democratic nominee \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12804/kamala-harris-delegates-nominee-dnc-vote\">after receiving the support of enough party delegates to secure the nomination\u003c/a>. That same day,\u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-senate-republicans-nrsc-president\">\u003cem> Axios\u003c/em> obtained a strategy memo\u003c/a> from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which works to get Republicans elected to the Senate. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/rbeggin/status/1815469097045692658\">The document, which lists out multiple attack lines\u003c/a>, refers to the vice president as “San Francisco radical Kamala Harris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris served as San Francisco district attorney from 2004–10, California attorney general from 2011–17 and U.S. senator for California from 2017–21 before becoming the first woman, the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be vice president in 2020. However, despite it being over a decade since Harris last lived in San Francisco (\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-01-07/kamala-harris-doug-emhoff-los-angeles-home-brentwood\">she and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff moved to Los Angeles in 2014\u003c/a>), Republican officials and operatives continue to tie Harris to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region has long been a punching bag for Donald Trump and his allies, who blame Democratic leadership for things \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Trump-criticizes-San-Francisco-for-not-addressing-16664879.php\">like smash-and-grab robberies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-im-fighting-trump-tries-to-cast-us-cities-as-filthy-and-crime-ridden-in-attempt-to-sway-2020-voters/2019/07/02/089463ca-9cda-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html\">homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to know what America would be like under a President Kamala Harris, go visit her hometown of San Francisco,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KevinKileyCA/status/1815091252989481408\">Congressman Kevin Kiley \u003c/a>— a California Republican whose district covers most of the Sierra Nevada — said on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995538/a-california-story-kamala-harris-road-to-the-white-house\">Harris was, in fact, born in Oakland\u003c/a> and raised in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Time and time again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Oakland-based journalist Liam O’Donoghue, the reason why conservative commentators continue to invoke — and attack — the Bay Area is clear: The region is a national symbol for progressive policies, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime there’s a failure or a problem in the Bay Area, they use that to extrapolate and say, ‘Oh, this is the reason why liberalism is bad,’” said O’Donoghue, who also hosts the Bay Area history podcast \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.com/\">East Bay Yesterday\u003c/a>. “We’ve seen this time and time and time again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days before Biden announced he was leaving the race, \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.substack.com/p/prepare-to-defend-the-bay-area\">O’Donoghue urged his East Bay Yesterday audience to “defend the Bay Area”\u003c/a> from “a coordinated campaign to besmirch” the region for political ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t the only one: Oakland-based writer Abraham Woodliff, who runs the popular Bay Area-focused meme account \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/realbayareamemes/\">realbayareamemes\u003c/a>, warned his Instagram followers that same day that “If Kamala Harris ends up replacing Biden, the media is going to start attacking the Bay Area hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should consider the message that they want to spread about the Bay Area,” O’Donaghue told KQED. “When they’re talking to their relatives or arguing with their uncles on Facebook, be ready to have your examples of why you love the Bay and what you want to share about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, given the renewed focus that Republican campaign messaging — and Democratic too — will have on the Bay Area over the next 100 days until Election Day, we’ve brought together just some of the claims already heard from both sides to explore their accuracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll keep updating this story with new claims — with fact-checks — as they’re made, and if you’ve seen a claim about our region that you’d like us to clarify, you can submit it below.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration and sanctuary cities\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ever since his first 2016 presidential campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/g-s1-12087/watch-trump-rnc-speech\">Trump has blamed immigrants lacking permanent legal status for almost every societal ill in the United States\u003c/a>. “It’s a massive invasion at our \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">southern\u003c/span> border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land,” he said in his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/d4e10c51-01c6-4506-bacd-7047aa9a46d1\">In a memo released on Monday\u003c/a>, the Trump campaign linked Harris directly with the immigration issue, stating that during her time as vice president, she had “helped fuel the invasion at our southern border.” But \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GOP/status/1815118190768173111\">an attack ad from the Republican Party’s official X account\u003c/a> went further, claiming that during her time as a prosecutor in San Francisco, “Harris allowed illegal immigrant drug dealers to enter job training and have their criminal records wiped clean.” The attack ad also states that “One of the illegal immigrants Harris released went on to steal an SUV and ran down a young woman, seriously injuring her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “job training” in question refers to “Back on Track,” a program launched by Kamala Harris in 2005 when she was district attorney for San Francisco. Back on Track provided professional and personal development to \u003ca href=\"https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf\">young people ages 18–30 convicted for low-level drug trafficking\u003c/a> with the aim of providing alternatives to selling drugs and preventing participants from committing the same crime in the future. During its initial run, \u003ca href=\"https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf\">Back on Track reported that less than 10% of its participants ended up committing the same crime\u003c/a> after completing the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the participants was Alexander Izaguirre, an immigrant lacking permanent legal status, who in 2009 was accused of robbing an SF woman of her purse. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/D-A-s-office-let-illegal-immigrants-go-3226767.php\">According to reports, Izaguirre then jumped into a nearby SUV\u003c/a> driven by an unidentified accomplice, who then \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-22-me-harris22-story.html\">ran down the woman and fractured her skull.\u003c/a> Under Harris, the SF District Attorney’s Office later told ABC7 \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/archive/6878510/\">that they were not aware that Izaguirre lacked\u003c/a> permanent legal status because the program did not ask for participants’ immigrant status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time that the Trump campaign has specifically targeted the Bay Area’s immigration population for political gain. In 2015, Kate Steinle was fatally shot at San Francisco’s Pier 19 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916187/do-not-return-to-this-country-sf-judge-gives-time-served-to-man-acquitted-of-murder-in-2015-kate-steinle-shooting\">a bullet from a gunshot by José Inez García Zárate nearby ricocheted off the ground and hit Steinle\u003c/a>. García Zárate was in the country without legal status and had a criminal history, but the San Francisco sheriff had released him from jail shortly before the shooting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916187/do-not-return-to-this-country-sf-judge-gives-time-served-to-man-acquitted-of-murder-in-2015-kate-steinle-shooting\">despite a federal immigration request to detain him so he could face deportation proceedings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an absolutely disgraceful situation, and I am the only one that can fix it,”\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10590304/kate-steinle-shooting-opens-can-of-worms-on-san-francisco-immigration-policy\"> Trump said in 2015\u003c/a> as part of his 2016 presidential campaign, blaming \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information/sanctuary-city-ordinance\">San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy\u003c/a>, which blocks local law enforcement from collaborating with federal immigration agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Trump campaign pins this one on Harris: San Francisco first adopted a sanctuary city policy in 1989 — long before Harris entered politics. The city enacted the policy thanks to a widely organized grassroots effort led by organizers from \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/community-rallies-amid-sanctuary-city-backlash/\">the city’s Latino and Asian communities, who have consistently supported it ever since\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What other claims about the Bay Area have you heard from the Election 2024 campaigns?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Homelessness and substance abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one is a popular attack line from Republicans: Point to the Bay Area’s unhoused population as proof that the region is in complete and utter decay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — then an aspiring Republican presidential candidate — \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-san-francisco-gavin-newsom-2024-presidential-election/13408706/\">came to San Francisco to film a campaign ad\u003c/a>, pointing to one littered street corner in the Tenderloin as proof that the city had “really collapsed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s absolutely true that Bay Area cities have frequently struggled to provide adequate shelter to their unhoused population. In some cities, like Oakland,\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/05/15/pit-count-oakland-homeless-numbers/#:~:text=The%20latest%20point%2Din%2Dtime,Credit:%20Florence%20Middleton\"> homelessness has continued to grow in the past few years\u003c/a> despite record investments from both local and state governments in affordable housing and drug treatment efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it would be incorrect to attribute homelessness in the Bay Area to a single reason. The work of dozens of Bay Area journalists over the years — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">including KQED’s very own Housing desk\u003c/a> — has shown that homelessness is caused by multiple factors, including insufficient affordable housing, stagnant wages and a shrinking social safety net. We’ve also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993217/debunking-6-common-myths-about-homelessness-in-california\">debunked persistent myths about unhoused communities\u003c/a>, including false notions that all homeless people abuse substances or reject work opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there isn’t any unified “Bay Area approach” to unhoused communities, either. If you’ve followed Bay Area politics long enough, you know that there are deep differences among local leaders on how to tackle homelessness, which ranges from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">investing millions in temporary housing units\u003c/a> — like what we saw this year in San José — to pushing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">more aggressive and punitive sweeps of homeless encampments\u003c/a>, like what is now happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Crime and retail theft\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Trump branded himself as “the law and order candidate” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-im-fighting-trump-tries-to-cast-us-cities-as-filthy-and-crime-ridden-in-attempt-to-sway-2020-voters/2019/07/02/089463ca-9cda-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html\">blasted Democrat-led cities as crime-ridden national embarrassments\u003c/a>. This time around, he’s doubling down on that message, focusing on retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see these gangs of hundreds of young — usually young people — go and attack a department store … in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Chicago, and they run in by the hundreds, and they’re running out carrying refrigerators and carrying air conditioners and big stuff,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?536217-1/president-trump-speaks-turning-point-action-town-hall-arizona\">Trump said at a speech in Arizona last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, multiple videos have gone viral of groups of people robbing stores in the middle of the day and fleeing the scene with law enforcement nowhere to be seen. Several of these robberies have taken place in Bay Area cities but also are seen in less historically liberal areas of California, like \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/video/smash-and-grab-robbery-of-t-mobile-store-in-orange-caught-on-camera/8008705/\">the 2022 smash-and-grab in a T-Mobile store captured on camera in Orange County\u003c/a>. Thieves go after big-name stores \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/group-dashes-out-of-san-francisco-neiman-marcus-store-after-handbag-robbery\">like Neiman Marcus\u003c/a> but also target smaller family businesses, as in the case of an Oakland jewelry store owned by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/robbery-jewelry-store-oakland-chinatown/3508655/\">an elderly couple who, in April of this year, lost almost everything in a smash-and-grab robbery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican officials have already linked these robberies to Harris. On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Patterdude/status/1815123927519416662\">California State Assemblymember Joe Patterson wrote on X\u003c/a> that “Kamala Harris is largely responsible for the increased retail theft and drug abuse you see today. She wrote the insanely misleading ballot title and summary for Prop 47.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 is a statewide ballot measure passed by voters in 2014 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990587/californias-democratic-leaders-clash-with-businesses-over-curbing-retail-theft-heres-what-to-know\">reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors\u003c/a>. In California, the attorney general does, in fact, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives\">prepare a title and summary for proposed ballot initiatives\u003c/a>, and that’s what Harris did for Proposition 47, which in the 2014 ballot was named “Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Harris act in a way biased in favor of Proposition 47? There’s no evidence to make that claim:\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/kamala-harris-prosecutor-19588933.php\"> Harris did not take a position for or against the ballot measure\u003c/a>, something progressives criticized her for. What’s more, these specific kinds of smash-and-grab thefts are also felonies that remain unaffected by Proposition 47, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system#blame\">that hasn’t stopped other politicians from linking the two.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for a broader spike in shoplifting in California that both Patterson and Trump point to — that story is also a little more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Little Hoover Commission — an independent state oversight commission — released \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report_RetailTheft-1.pdf\">a report tracking retail theft across California (PDF)\u003c/a>. The commission found that while reports of retail theft had indeed increased since 2019, they not only remained on par with numbers from the 2010s, but they were even lower than the 2000s and 1990s. The bump in theft around 2020–21 also happened in all other 49 states, according to the FBI data obtained by the commission. (An important caveat: the commission could only track \u003cem>reported\u003c/em> incidents of shoplifting and commercial burglary and acknowledges that an important chunk of data could potentially be missing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data aside, public perception is much more focused on retail theft than ever before, thanks to how newsrooms cover retail theft — in addition to the compelling nature of viral footage on social media. According to the Center for Just Journalism, which promotes best practices in the industry, \u003ca href=\"https://justjournalism.org/page/retail-theft\">news outlets nationwide published around 200 stories mentioning “organized retail crime” or “organized retail theft”\u003c/a> in 2019. Just two years later, that number had tripled, a rate far outpacing the actual pandemic-era crime bump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big-name retailers used the narrative to justify closing locations across the Bay Area. Walgreens, for example, closed five stores in San Francisco in 2021, blaming theft, but an analysis of San Francisco Police Department data later found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Is-shoplifting-forcing-Walgreens-to-cut-back-in-16536960.php\">other factors were likely to have also played a role\u003c/a>, including competition from online shopping, reduced foot traffic and an oversaturation of Walgreens locations within the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we cried too much last year,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting.html\">James Kehoe, chief financial officer for Walgreens, said in an earnings call last year\u003c/a>, admitting that the company may have overstated how much theft actually happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What other claims about the Bay Area have you heard in the run-up to the 2024 election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Use our form below to tell us what you’re hearing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region has long been a punching bag for Donald Trump and his allies, who blame Democratic leadership for things \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Trump-criticizes-San-Francisco-for-not-addressing-16664879.php\">like smash-and-grab robberies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-im-fighting-trump-tries-to-cast-us-cities-as-filthy-and-crime-ridden-in-attempt-to-sway-2020-voters/2019/07/02/089463ca-9cda-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html\">homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to know what America would be like under a President Kamala Harris, go visit her hometown of San Francisco,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KevinKileyCA/status/1815091252989481408\">Congressman Kevin Kiley \u003c/a>— a California Republican whose district covers most of the Sierra Nevada — said on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995538/a-california-story-kamala-harris-road-to-the-white-house\">Harris was, in fact, born in Oakland\u003c/a> and raised in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Time and time again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Oakland-based journalist Liam O’Donoghue, the reason why conservative commentators continue to invoke — and attack — the Bay Area is clear: The region is a national symbol for progressive policies, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime there’s a failure or a problem in the Bay Area, they use that to extrapolate and say, ‘Oh, this is the reason why liberalism is bad,’” said O’Donoghue, who also hosts the Bay Area history podcast \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.com/\">East Bay Yesterday\u003c/a>. “We’ve seen this time and time and time again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days before Biden announced he was leaving the race, \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.substack.com/p/prepare-to-defend-the-bay-area\">O’Donoghue urged his East Bay Yesterday audience to “defend the Bay Area”\u003c/a> from “a coordinated campaign to besmirch” the region for political ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t the only one: Oakland-based writer Abraham Woodliff, who runs the popular Bay Area-focused meme account \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/realbayareamemes/\">realbayareamemes\u003c/a>, warned his Instagram followers that same day that “If Kamala Harris ends up replacing Biden, the media is going to start attacking the Bay Area hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should consider the message that they want to spread about the Bay Area,” O’Donaghue told KQED. “When they’re talking to their relatives or arguing with their uncles on Facebook, be ready to have your examples of why you love the Bay and what you want to share about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, given the renewed focus that Republican campaign messaging — and Democratic too — will have on the Bay Area over the next 100 days until Election Day, we’ve brought together just some of the claims already heard from both sides to explore their accuracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll keep updating this story with new claims — with fact-checks — as they’re made, and if you’ve seen a claim about our region that you’d like us to clarify, you can submit it below.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration and sanctuary cities\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ever since his first 2016 presidential campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/g-s1-12087/watch-trump-rnc-speech\">Trump has blamed immigrants lacking permanent legal status for almost every societal ill in the United States\u003c/a>. “It’s a massive invasion at our \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">southern\u003c/span> border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land,” he said in his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/d4e10c51-01c6-4506-bacd-7047aa9a46d1\">In a memo released on Monday\u003c/a>, the Trump campaign linked Harris directly with the immigration issue, stating that during her time as vice president, she had “helped fuel the invasion at our southern border.” But \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GOP/status/1815118190768173111\">an attack ad from the Republican Party’s official X account\u003c/a> went further, claiming that during her time as a prosecutor in San Francisco, “Harris allowed illegal immigrant drug dealers to enter job training and have their criminal records wiped clean.” The attack ad also states that “One of the illegal immigrants Harris released went on to steal an SUV and ran down a young woman, seriously injuring her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “job training” in question refers to “Back on Track,” a program launched by Kamala Harris in 2005 when she was district attorney for San Francisco. Back on Track provided professional and personal development to \u003ca href=\"https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf\">young people ages 18–30 convicted for low-level drug trafficking\u003c/a> with the aim of providing alternatives to selling drugs and preventing participants from committing the same crime in the future. During its initial run, \u003ca href=\"https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf\">Back on Track reported that less than 10% of its participants ended up committing the same crime\u003c/a> after completing the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the participants was Alexander Izaguirre, an immigrant lacking permanent legal status, who in 2009 was accused of robbing an SF woman of her purse. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/D-A-s-office-let-illegal-immigrants-go-3226767.php\">According to reports, Izaguirre then jumped into a nearby SUV\u003c/a> driven by an unidentified accomplice, who then \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-22-me-harris22-story.html\">ran down the woman and fractured her skull.\u003c/a> Under Harris, the SF District Attorney’s Office later told ABC7 \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/archive/6878510/\">that they were not aware that Izaguirre lacked\u003c/a> permanent legal status because the program did not ask for participants’ immigrant status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time that the Trump campaign has specifically targeted the Bay Area’s immigration population for political gain. In 2015, Kate Steinle was fatally shot at San Francisco’s Pier 19 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916187/do-not-return-to-this-country-sf-judge-gives-time-served-to-man-acquitted-of-murder-in-2015-kate-steinle-shooting\">a bullet from a gunshot by José Inez García Zárate nearby ricocheted off the ground and hit Steinle\u003c/a>. García Zárate was in the country without legal status and had a criminal history, but the San Francisco sheriff had released him from jail shortly before the shooting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916187/do-not-return-to-this-country-sf-judge-gives-time-served-to-man-acquitted-of-murder-in-2015-kate-steinle-shooting\">despite a federal immigration request to detain him so he could face deportation proceedings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an absolutely disgraceful situation, and I am the only one that can fix it,”\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10590304/kate-steinle-shooting-opens-can-of-worms-on-san-francisco-immigration-policy\"> Trump said in 2015\u003c/a> as part of his 2016 presidential campaign, blaming \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information/sanctuary-city-ordinance\">San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy\u003c/a>, which blocks local law enforcement from collaborating with federal immigration agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Trump campaign pins this one on Harris: San Francisco first adopted a sanctuary city policy in 1989 — long before Harris entered politics. The city enacted the policy thanks to a widely organized grassroots effort led by organizers from \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/community-rallies-amid-sanctuary-city-backlash/\">the city’s Latino and Asian communities, who have consistently supported it ever since\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What other claims about the Bay Area have you heard from the Election 2024 campaigns?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Homelessness and substance abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one is a popular attack line from Republicans: Point to the Bay Area’s unhoused population as proof that the region is in complete and utter decay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — then an aspiring Republican presidential candidate — \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-san-francisco-gavin-newsom-2024-presidential-election/13408706/\">came to San Francisco to film a campaign ad\u003c/a>, pointing to one littered street corner in the Tenderloin as proof that the city had “really collapsed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s absolutely true that Bay Area cities have frequently struggled to provide adequate shelter to their unhoused population. In some cities, like Oakland,\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/05/15/pit-count-oakland-homeless-numbers/#:~:text=The%20latest%20point%2Din%2Dtime,Credit:%20Florence%20Middleton\"> homelessness has continued to grow in the past few years\u003c/a> despite record investments from both local and state governments in affordable housing and drug treatment efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it would be incorrect to attribute homelessness in the Bay Area to a single reason. The work of dozens of Bay Area journalists over the years — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">including KQED’s very own Housing desk\u003c/a> — has shown that homelessness is caused by multiple factors, including insufficient affordable housing, stagnant wages and a shrinking social safety net. We’ve also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993217/debunking-6-common-myths-about-homelessness-in-california\">debunked persistent myths about unhoused communities\u003c/a>, including false notions that all homeless people abuse substances or reject work opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there isn’t any unified “Bay Area approach” to unhoused communities, either. If you’ve followed Bay Area politics long enough, you know that there are deep differences among local leaders on how to tackle homelessness, which ranges from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">investing millions in temporary housing units\u003c/a> — like what we saw this year in San José — to pushing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">more aggressive and punitive sweeps of homeless encampments\u003c/a>, like what is now happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Crime and retail theft\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Trump branded himself as “the law and order candidate” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-im-fighting-trump-tries-to-cast-us-cities-as-filthy-and-crime-ridden-in-attempt-to-sway-2020-voters/2019/07/02/089463ca-9cda-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html\">blasted Democrat-led cities as crime-ridden national embarrassments\u003c/a>. This time around, he’s doubling down on that message, focusing on retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see these gangs of hundreds of young — usually young people — go and attack a department store … in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Chicago, and they run in by the hundreds, and they’re running out carrying refrigerators and carrying air conditioners and big stuff,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?536217-1/president-trump-speaks-turning-point-action-town-hall-arizona\">Trump said at a speech in Arizona last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, multiple videos have gone viral of groups of people robbing stores in the middle of the day and fleeing the scene with law enforcement nowhere to be seen. Several of these robberies have taken place in Bay Area cities but also are seen in less historically liberal areas of California, like \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/video/smash-and-grab-robbery-of-t-mobile-store-in-orange-caught-on-camera/8008705/\">the 2022 smash-and-grab in a T-Mobile store captured on camera in Orange County\u003c/a>. Thieves go after big-name stores \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/group-dashes-out-of-san-francisco-neiman-marcus-store-after-handbag-robbery\">like Neiman Marcus\u003c/a> but also target smaller family businesses, as in the case of an Oakland jewelry store owned by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/robbery-jewelry-store-oakland-chinatown/3508655/\">an elderly couple who, in April of this year, lost almost everything in a smash-and-grab robbery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican officials have already linked these robberies to Harris. On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Patterdude/status/1815123927519416662\">California State Assemblymember Joe Patterson wrote on X\u003c/a> that “Kamala Harris is largely responsible for the increased retail theft and drug abuse you see today. She wrote the insanely misleading ballot title and summary for Prop 47.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 is a statewide ballot measure passed by voters in 2014 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990587/californias-democratic-leaders-clash-with-businesses-over-curbing-retail-theft-heres-what-to-know\">reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors\u003c/a>. In California, the attorney general does, in fact, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives\">prepare a title and summary for proposed ballot initiatives\u003c/a>, and that’s what Harris did for Proposition 47, which in the 2014 ballot was named “Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Harris act in a way biased in favor of Proposition 47? There’s no evidence to make that claim:\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/kamala-harris-prosecutor-19588933.php\"> Harris did not take a position for or against the ballot measure\u003c/a>, something progressives criticized her for. What’s more, these specific kinds of smash-and-grab thefts are also felonies that remain unaffected by Proposition 47, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system#blame\">that hasn’t stopped other politicians from linking the two.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for a broader spike in shoplifting in California that both Patterson and Trump point to — that story is also a little more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Little Hoover Commission — an independent state oversight commission — released \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report_RetailTheft-1.pdf\">a report tracking retail theft across California (PDF)\u003c/a>. The commission found that while reports of retail theft had indeed increased since 2019, they not only remained on par with numbers from the 2010s, but they were even lower than the 2000s and 1990s. The bump in theft around 2020–21 also happened in all other 49 states, according to the FBI data obtained by the commission. (An important caveat: the commission could only track \u003cem>reported\u003c/em> incidents of shoplifting and commercial burglary and acknowledges that an important chunk of data could potentially be missing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data aside, public perception is much more focused on retail theft than ever before, thanks to how newsrooms cover retail theft — in addition to the compelling nature of viral footage on social media. According to the Center for Just Journalism, which promotes best practices in the industry, \u003ca href=\"https://justjournalism.org/page/retail-theft\">news outlets nationwide published around 200 stories mentioning “organized retail crime” or “organized retail theft”\u003c/a> in 2019. Just two years later, that number had tripled, a rate far outpacing the actual pandemic-era crime bump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big-name retailers used the narrative to justify closing locations across the Bay Area. Walgreens, for example, closed five stores in San Francisco in 2021, blaming theft, but an analysis of San Francisco Police Department data later found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Is-shoplifting-forcing-Walgreens-to-cut-back-in-16536960.php\">other factors were likely to have also played a role\u003c/a>, including competition from online shopping, reduced foot traffic and an oversaturation of Walgreens locations within the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we cried too much last year,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting.html\">James Kehoe, chief financial officer for Walgreens, said in an earnings call last year\u003c/a>, admitting that the company may have overstated how much theft actually happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What other claims about the Bay Area have you heard in the run-up to the 2024 election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Use our form below to tell us what you’re hearing. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The likely matchup between Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> and former President Donald Trump for the White House presents a stark difference for voters on labor issues, especially on workers’ push for higher wages and safer workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surging wave of organized labor is backing Harris, second in command to a president often dubbed as the “most pro-union” in history, at a time when Americans’ \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/510281/unions-strengthening.aspx\">support for unions\u003c/a> has been the highest in decades. She has been endorsed by major unions, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu.org/2024/07/seius-verrett-seiu-is-all-in-for-kamala-harris-a-leader-who-will-fight-for-workers-and-beat-donald-trump\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/communications-workers-america-endorses-kamala-harris-president\">Communications Workers of America\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/harrisendorsement7212024/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Trump has garnered no major endorsements from organized labor despite his campaign to appeal to working-class voters with populist messaging. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention last week, but neither he nor the union endorsed Trump — and the speech drew criticism from other labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why does this matter?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unions’ support may be able to help Harris win over workers in battleground states who are disenchanted with Democrats after foreign trade agreements decimated their lives, said Bill Gould, a former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board who teaches labor and employment law at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit stands at a podium and gestures with her right hand with several people in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ap24204575794832-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday, July 22, 2024, during an event with NCAA college athletes.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He noted it will be important for her to tout efforts launched by the Biden administration, including investments to create jobs and uplift manufacturing, such as through the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent polling has shown voters more likely to see Trump and Republicans as stronger options to reduce \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-losing-trump-economy-inflation-poll-1928909\">inflation\u003c/a>, a key economic anxiety weighing on the campaign. With that in mind, unions’ money, organizing prowess and political advocacy could play a key role in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why have some big unions endorsed Harris?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those in organized labor who publicly support Harris see her as likely to advance Biden’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden-Harris administration also tapped outspoken pro-worker former officials from California to lead the U.S. Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, tasked with protecting workers.[aside postID=news_11996902 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42922_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_MarriottMarquis_04262020-qut-1020x680.jpg']Trump’s record during his first presidency points to a more “hostile” approach towards unions and aversion to efforts to address sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was “implacably opposed” to legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $7.25, which was last increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage#:~:text=The%20federal%20minimum%20wage%20provisions,fringe%20benefits)%20may%20be%20filed.&text=YouthRules!\">15 years ago to the day\u003c/a>, Gould noted. 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"content": "\u003cp>California has arguably never had so much climate momentum, enjoying a moment of alignment between its strong environmental goals and federal policy after battling with the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993747/if-trump-wins-climate\">a second term\u003c/a> for former President Donald Trump — a Trump vs. California 2.0 — would almost certainly be a vicious legal rematch between the most populous state in the nation and an administration intent on weakening its regulations and protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and the Trump administration were constantly fighting in court and in the headlines, with the state participating in almost 100 lawsuits against the U.S. during his presidency, \u003ca href=\"https://attorneysgeneral.org/multistate-lawsuits-vs-the-federal-government/\">according to a tracker\u003c/a> developed by a Marquette University political scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hindsight, the state’s laws and policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956379/on-the-environment-trump-is-getting-trounced-in-the-courts-at-least-so-far\">emerged relatively unscathed\u003c/a>. However, during a second Trump term, the administration could be more successful in hampering California’s climate and environmental policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, Trump staffers are likely to be more focused and competent than they were the first time around. Secondly, the legal landscape has changed as Trump-appointed judges sit on benches everywhere, from the Supreme Court to local districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, former head of the California Air Resources Board, was one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/trumps-coming-showdown-with-californias-queen-of-green/571051/\">the chief architects\u003c/a> of California’s ultimately successful legal battle against the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the state’s strict auto-emissions standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state was helped, Nichols said, by the fact that many Trump appointees “took a long time to figure out how to do as much damage as they wanted to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state often beat them on the grounds that they hadn’t followed correct procedures. But during a second Trump administration, “they’ve already said they’re going to be much more prepared this time around to move very quickly, to start to dismantle everything they can possibly dismantle. So, it will be hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, with Vice President Kamala Harris poised as the Democratic standard bearer, the Golden State could see one of its own leading the White House. Raised in the Bay Area before she went on to serve as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, Harris has spent much of her career working on environmental and climate issues. A Harris administration could help the state meet its goals and perhaps \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-23/environmentalists-ecstatic-over-kamala-harris-candidacy\">give it additional momentum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legal landscape has changed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No matter who the next person to enter the White House is, California’s legal chessboard has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger, of course, is the Supreme Court,” Nichols said, “which, in his first term, Trump succeeded in skewing very far to the right and particularly far in the direction of supporting an attack on any type of regulatory activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, in June, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/28/landmark-supreme-court-ruling-in-chevron-case-could-curb-environmental-protections-in-california/\">court overturned\u003c/a> a 1984 Supreme Court decision known as the Chevron doctrine. That long-standing precedent said judges in lower courts should defer to the expertise of federal agencies, like the Environmental Protection Agency, when the laws passed by Congress are vague.[aside postID=news_11993386 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/ThompsonFireOrovilleAP1-1020x680.jpg']That decision fits into a larger pattern, said \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/ann-e-carlson\">Ann Carlson\u003c/a>, an environmental law professor at UCLA and former chief counsel and acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, under the Biden-Harris administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Supreme Court in the past year and a half or so has taken up four separate environmental cases and has struck down environmental regulations in every one of them, and they’ve done so on different grounds,” Carlson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basis of those decisions — what’s known as the major questions doctrine — could be a bigger threat to California’s ability to regulate itself than any individual decision, such as the Chevron doctrine, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The basic idea from the court is that if a regulation transforms the economy in a significant way, and Congress hasn’t directly told the agency to issue that regulation, then the agency lacks the power to do that,” Carlson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the court used this doctrine to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/the-supreme-court-curbed-epas-power-to-regulate-carbon-emissions-from-power-plants-what-comes-next/#:~:text=July%2019%2C%202022%20%E2%80%93%20In%20late,sources%20that%20emit%20less%20carbon\">invalidate the Clean Power Plan\u003c/a> (despite it already being scuttled by the Trump administration). It was used to \u003ca href=\"https://nortonrosefulbright.com/en-us/knowledge/publications/81586721/us-supreme-court-decisions-stay-osha-ets-uphold-cms-vaccine-mandate\">invalidate vaccine mandates\u003c/a> for corporations and businesses under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The court also used it to \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/15982-questions-remain-on-major-questions-doctrine\">strike down\u003c/a> President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this is a doctrine that they’ve been employing a lot to invalidate big regulatory programs issued by the Biden administration,” Carlson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A petition for the court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/scotus-bait-legal-battle-over-calif-waiver-begins/\">take up a case challenging\u003c/a> California’s ability to set its own extra-tough vehicle emissions standards is still pending. Under that authority, California has enacted the Advanced Clean Cars Program and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/54794/carb-vehicle-emissions-rules\">push automakers to sell\u003c/a> an increasing number of electric vehicles in the state. The state considers this key to meeting not only its climate goals but also its clean air requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of who is the next president, “there’s big legal threats right now to California’s ability to regulate,” Carlson said. “And then if Trump were to succeed and be elected president, there will be big political threats to California’s authority to regulate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichols, the former head of the California Air Resources Board, worries that the legal threats will make state officials wary of carrying out lawsuits. “Are we so afraid of being taken to court or going to court that we end up, you know, not standing up for things that we should be standing up for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is likely to continue to face challenges at the Supreme Court, she said, but the state’s prospects will depend on the individual cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not convinced that this Supreme Court is just out to screw California or that they really want to, you know, prevent electric cars,” Nichols said. “We’re not automatically screwed. But it doesn’t mean that it’s not going to be harder than it was the last time around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Whatever happens in November\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ignoring the political horse race for a moment, Californians would do well to consider the fact that climate change is real, being felt by residents of the state every day and that burning fossil fuel is the primary driver of global heating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are on the edge of existential crisis,” Carlson said. “We cannot afford to wait any longer to attack the problem as vigorously as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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