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He has also campaigned in Orange County with Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008573/asian-american-voters-are-key-in-this-orange-county-congressional-race\">Derek Tran\u003c/a>, who is challenging Republican incumbent Michelle Steel, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011642/how-the-diploma-divide-is-reshaping-politics-in-a-key-california-house-race\">Dave Min\u003c/a>, who is vying to succeed Katie Porter after she gave up the seat to run against Schiff in the Senate primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all ahead at the moment, so I’m pretty optimistic about all of them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to helping fellow Democrats in California win their election, Schiff is also making friends with people he hopes will be his colleagues in the Senate come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past week, he has appeared with U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen in Nevada and Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, in addition to making a swing through Arizona to help Senate candidate Ruben Gallego. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to helping fellow Democrats in California win their election, Schiff is also making friends with people he hopes will be his colleagues in the Senate come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past week, he has appeared with U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen in Nevada and Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, in addition to making a swing through Arizona to help Senate candidate Ruben Gallego. Gallego hopes to replace Kyrsten Sinema, the former Democrat who became an independent in 2022 and chose not to run for reelection. Schiff also attended a Democratic fundraiser in Minneapolis with Sen. Amy Klobuchar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’ll need allies if, as expected, he wins this race. The 2016 retirement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006391/barbara-boxer-is-retired-but-still-deeply-engaged-in-politics\">Sen. Barbara Boxer\u003c/a>, Harris’ vacating her Senate seat to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855838/vice-president-elect-harris-formally-resigns-senate-seat-gov-newsom-appoints-replacement\">become President Biden’s vice president\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a> have left California with two relatively junior senators in a chamber where seniority helps determine committee assignments and overall clout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said that if he wins, his top priority in the Senate will be addressing the “twin” issues facing Californians: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">housing and homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be building hundreds of thousands of units every year. We need to be able to build them quickly. We need to be able to build them affordably,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42b060s9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley IGS Poll\u003c/a> published Friday showed him holding a 21-point lead over his Republican opponent, Steve Garvey, 55% to 34%, with 11% undecided, a margin similar to the last two IGS polls since the March primary. He’s also vastly outraised Garvey, 75, since the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dcronin\">\u003cem>Dana Cronin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Sophia Yen finds it difficult to talk about the future her daughters could face under a second Trump presidency without tearing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yen, co-founder of an organization specializing in reproductive care, fears their access to such vital care could be further limited if former President Donald Trump wins the election. And she’s not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do I get two girls through college?” Yen asked, pointing to the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU-Files/Key-Issues/Campus-Safety/Revised%20Aggregate%20report%20%20and%20appendices%201-7_(01-16-2020_FINAL).pdf\">1 in 4 undergraduate women\u003c/a> have reported being sexually assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, she said, reproductive rights have “already gone back. And we need to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\">overturned \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2022, spurring some states to limit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/abortion\">access to abortion\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2825201?guestAccessKey=e7e9550e-5563-4801-bc4f-b743bed9ccff&utm_source=for_the_media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=102124\">infant mortality rates increased\u003c/a> — in Texas, by \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2819785\">as much as 13%\u003c/a>. Pinning down the \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/tracking-maternal-deaths-under-abortion-bans\">maternal mortality rate\u003c/a> is harder. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/scorecard/2024/jul/2024-state-scorecard-womens-health-and-reproductive-care\">a recent study\u003c/a> from the Commonwealth Fund, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-18/maternal-deaths-were-highest-in-states-that-restrict-abortion\">women were more at risk\u003c/a> of dying at or around childbirth in \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-18/maternal-deaths-were-highest-in-states-that-restrict-abortion\">states with stricter abortion laws\u003c/a>. In Texas, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631\">maternal mortality rate rose 56%\u003c/a> from 2019 to 2022, while nationally, it ticked up 11%, according to the research nonprofit Gender Equity Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/645836/record-share-electorate-pro-choice-voting.aspx\">Gallup Poll\u003c/a> released this summer, 54% of Americans identify as pro-choice, maintaining “historically high levels” of support for abortion rights since the overturning of \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>. And 32% of registered voters said they would only vote for a candidate that shared the same views as them on abortion, up 8 points since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an election featuring two candidates with wildly differing views on abortion who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-lead-over-trump-dwindles-single-point-44-43-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-10-29/\">polling extremely closely\u003c/a>, Bay Area residents and experts are left to wait and see what the future of healthcare holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though \u003ca href=\"https://abortion.ca.gov/your-rights/your-legal-right-to-an-abortion/index.html\">state laws\u003c/a> protect the right to an abortion in California, Yen — who is also a professor at Stanford Medical School — said the stakes are still high for abortion-rights voters in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Californians, we think we’re protected,” she said. “But we’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What could reproductive health care look like under a second Trump term?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the Dobbs decision, which overturned \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>, left it to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/18/human-rights-crisis-abortion-united-states-after-dobbs\">states to regulate abortion\u003c/a>, Nancy Cohen of \u003ca href=\"https://thegepi.org/about/\">the Gender Equity Policy Institute\u003c/a> said, “A national abortion ban is absolutely coming” if Trump is elected a second time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">a detailed, 900-page policy agenda for the next Republican presidency\u003c/a> authored and supported by Trump allies, former and current Trump staffers and his running mate JD Vance — has called for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/09/project2025-trump-california-abortion-surveillance/\">a national database\u003c/a> where states would report abortions. Cohen described this proposal as “basically Big Brother.”[aside postID=news_11998288 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2162596915-scaled.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 also aims to revive parts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025s-distortion-of-a-reconstruction-era-law-could-enact-a-national-abortion-ban/\">Comstock Act\u003c/a>, a law from the late 1800s that bans the mailing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-comstock-act-implications-for-abortion-care-nationwide/\">“obscene” items\u003c/a> such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-anthony-comstocks-chastity-laws/\">contraceptives\u003c/a>. (The act faced intense criticism at the time and was restricted in 1930, but it was \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7014473/comstock-act-project-2025/\">never fully repealed\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> overruled it, and when \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> was overturned, the Biden administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/application-comstock-act-mailing-prescription-drugs-can-be-used-abortions\">not apply\u003c/a> the Comstock Act.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“States like California and New York that have constitutional protections for abortion rights and reproductive health care in general … those become meaningless,” Cohen said. “Federal law will trump state protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Trump term would mean he could \u003ca href=\"https://nysba.org/6-to-3-the-impact-of-the-supreme-courts-conservative-super-majority/\">appoint more conservative-leaning\u003c/a> Supreme Court justices and federal judges. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238102768/fetal-personhood-alabama-ivf\">In states like Alabama\u003c/a>, Cohen noted, right-leaning judges have increasingly wielded arguments that personhood begins at conception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something like that would outlaw the IUD,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the anti-abortion movement believes that they should also \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf\">outlaw birth control\u003c/a>,” Cohen said. “So we are looking at really terrifying scenarios under a Trump presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Supreme Court still has the final say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Experts predict the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/nx-s1-5161578/supreme-court-harris-trump\">future of the judicial branch\u003c/a> will also be a political battle, depending on who wins the presidency and the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if Kamala Harris is elected president but Republicans take control of the Senate, her administration is likely to struggle to get appointments to lower courts confirmed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/nx-s1-5161578/supreme-court-harris-trump\">similar to Barack Obama’s term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yen hopes that if there is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001799/kamala-harris-put-abortion-at-the-center-of-the-election-what-her-california-record-shows\">a Harris presidency\u003c/a>, Democrats would “become bold enough to balance the court” — \u003ca href=\"https://demandjustice.org/priorities/supreme-court-reform/\">a common call\u003c/a> from left-leaning advocates critical of lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/kamala-harris-wants-to-reform-the-supreme-court/af03b7fe-5e17-44de-ac6d-cd4d0c0e0a63\">endorsed the idea of term limits\u003c/a> for justices in the country’s highest court. While Harris disavowed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.rutgers.edu/news/what-court-packing\">court-packing\u003c/a>,” she has called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/kamala-harris-wants-to-reform-the-supreme-court/af03b7fe-5e17-44de-ac6d-cd4d0c0e0a63\">reforms in the Supreme Court\u003c/a>, citing a growing lack of trust in the judicial branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current people on the Supreme Court are not neutral on reproductive rights, are not neutral on abortion, not neutral on reproductive freedom, and seem to tend towards a theocracy,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012287\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sophia Yen, an advocate of women’s health rights, wears a uterus necklace at her home in Los Altos on Nov. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How reproductive rights show up in California’s local races\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates stress that the stakes of reproductive health in the U.S. do not just lie with the executive office and the Supreme Court. Democrats need just \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-democrats-could-take-the-house\">five seats to win control of the House\u003c/a>, and whether this happens “really depends on elections in California and New York,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, when Senate Republicans blocked \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/06/05/senate-vote-right-to-contraception-act-birth-control-access/\">the Right to Contraception Act\u003c/a>, San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi wrote in a statement that GOP resistance “should come as no surprise,” citing the 195 Republicans who voted against the House’s version of the act in 2022. Though eight House Republicans voted in favor of the act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/the-8-republicans-vote-to-protect-federal-right-to-contraception-2022-7\">none of them\u003c/a> were from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Republicans who voted against the 2022 act are up for reelection. They include \u003ca href=\"https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/33019/87001/26777/right-to-contraception-act#87001\">Rep. Ken Calvert\u003c/a>, who is facing a challenge from Democrat Will Rollins in Southern California’s Riverside County. (Calvert said he supported competing Republican-backed bills that \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-votes-expand-access-contraceptives\">expanded contraceptive use\u003c/a> but kept protections for religious health care providers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, Rep. David Valadao, who co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1011\">Life at Conception Act in 2022\u003c/a>, is running against Democrat Rudy Salas. The anti-abortion incumbent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article294294674.html\">did not co-sponsor\u003c/a> the legislation again in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yen, these Democratic challengers “could help us gain control in the House for those that support reproductive rights, voting rights and \u003ca href=\"https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/08/26/jewish-congregations-mount-legal-challenges-to-state-abortion-bans/\">freedom of religion\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Californians who care about abortion rights and live in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-abortion-election-congress/\">one of these districts\u003c/a>, it’s very important to look at their record and see a lot of them are obfuscating and outright lying about where they are on this issue,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, anti-abortion candidates for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959451/culture-wars-escalate-as-state-takes-on-school-boards-over-lgbtq-rights\">school boards\u003c/a> and city councils could potentially also seek to enact “really extreme measures that are out of sync with Californians’ inclusive and pro-rights values,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californian votes really matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people gather holding signs with messages like, \"My body, my choice\" written on them in colorful marker.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people gather during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, as part of a nationwide response against the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade. Recent polling shows 71% of Californians say they’ll vote yes on Proposition 1, which would enshrine abortion and contraception access into the state constitution. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>California abortion — for residents and visitors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has stronger protections for reproductive rights than much of the country, especially after voters added the right to an abortion to the state constitution in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, reports have shown that people in the state’s rural areas have a hard time accessing care due to the lack of facilities nearby that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934819/for-rural-californians-abortion-is-legal-but-its-not-always-accessible\">can perform abortions\u003c/a>. Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007119/california-sues-a-catholic-hospital-for-denying-patient-an-emergency-abortion\">the state sued a Catholic hospital\u003c/a> for refusing to perform an emergency abortion. The patient in question, Dr. Anna Nusslock, was rushed to another hospital for a life-saving surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, the attorney general’s office found that Beverly Hills officials had \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-holds-beverly-hills-accountable-preventing-reproductive\">pressured a landlord\u003c/a> to prevent an abortion clinic from opening.[aside postID=news_12001799 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031424_Kamala-Reproductive-Health_AP_CM_01-copy.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is troubling that, even here in California where access to reproductive healthcare is a constitutional right, Beverly Hills officials have taken actions reminiscent of those in extremist red states by illegally interfering with, and ultimately preventing a new reproductive healthcare clinic from opening,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also the influx of \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-orange-san-bernardino/about-us/news/demand-has-quadrupled-at-some-california-abortion-clinics-since-roe-fell\">out-of-state patients\u003c/a> traveling to California for abortion care when access is restricted in their own states, leading to increased wait times and crowded clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area “provides care for the millions of women of reproductive age in the region” and out of state, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the system is a little stressed,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://thegepi.org/gepi-sfdosw-report-bay-area-abortion-rights/\">citing the need\u003c/a> for “better coordination” and increased resources across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Katherine Brown, medical director of the \u003ca href=\"https://obgyn.ucsf.edu/gynecology/katherine-brown-md-mas\">Black Wellness Clinic at UCSF\u003c/a>, said she and her colleagues have seen “people from all over the country more than we did before. We have patients coming from places like Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My patients already went through a lot prior to the Dobbs decision. But now, they have to go through a lot more hoops to even get the care that they need,” she said, noting the high costs of such cross-country travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always wonder about the people that don’t make it,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris is pictured sitting in a yellow seat on a stage.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the ‘Fight for Reproductive Freedoms’ tour at Mexican Heritage Plaza in San José on Jan. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could a Harris presidency look like when it comes to reproductive rights?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a California prosecutor, Harris had a strong record of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001799/kamala-harris-put-abortion-at-the-center-of-the-election-what-her-california-record-shows\">protecting abortion rights\u003c/a>. She has said that if she were to win the presidency, she would \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7096543/kamala-harris-abortion-plan-2024/\">sign a bill\u003c/a> reinstating \u003cem>Roe’s\u003c/em> protections into law if Congress passes it. Harris could also use her authority to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/31/g-s1-31186/up-first-newsletter-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories-kamala-harris-donald-trump-abortion-policies\">strengthen privacy laws\u003c/a>, which could protect people with uteruses from being prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said there are opportunities with this election to amend the inequities that have faced some Americans. For example, she said \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> was “imperfect” — noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-hyde-amendment-and-coverage-for-abortion-services-under-medicaid-in-the-post-roe-era/#:~:text=Starting%20in%201977%2C%20the%20Hyde,result%20from%20rape%20or%20incest.\">due to federal law\u003c/a>, many people on Medicaid could not have the costs of their abortion covered. (California’s version of the program, Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov/assets/26092CC9-AAAF-432E-A672-85D649215F8A/abort.pdf?access_token=6UyVkRRfByXTZEWIh8j8QaYylPyP5ULO\">does cover abortion\u003c/a>, however.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to abortion needs to be a protected right no matter where you are,” she said. “Insurance needs to be able to cover it, no matter what type of insurance you have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she is anxious for Election Day, she said she is also “guardedly hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the opportunity to move beyond \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and find something that’s better,” she said. “That really honors reproductive freedom, reproductive autonomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s where I find my hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 also aims to revive parts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025s-distortion-of-a-reconstruction-era-law-could-enact-a-national-abortion-ban/\">Comstock Act\u003c/a>, a law from the late 1800s that bans the mailing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-comstock-act-implications-for-abortion-care-nationwide/\">“obscene” items\u003c/a> such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-anthony-comstocks-chastity-laws/\">contraceptives\u003c/a>. (The act faced intense criticism at the time and was restricted in 1930, but it was \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7014473/comstock-act-project-2025/\">never fully repealed\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> overruled it, and when \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> was overturned, the Biden administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/application-comstock-act-mailing-prescription-drugs-can-be-used-abortions\">not apply\u003c/a> the Comstock Act.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“States like California and New York that have constitutional protections for abortion rights and reproductive health care in general … those become meaningless,” Cohen said. “Federal law will trump state protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Trump term would mean he could \u003ca href=\"https://nysba.org/6-to-3-the-impact-of-the-supreme-courts-conservative-super-majority/\">appoint more conservative-leaning\u003c/a> Supreme Court justices and federal judges. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238102768/fetal-personhood-alabama-ivf\">In states like Alabama\u003c/a>, Cohen noted, right-leaning judges have increasingly wielded arguments that personhood begins at conception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something like that would outlaw the IUD,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the anti-abortion movement believes that they should also \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf\">outlaw birth control\u003c/a>,” Cohen said. “So we are looking at really terrifying scenarios under a Trump presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Supreme Court still has the final say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Experts predict the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/nx-s1-5161578/supreme-court-harris-trump\">future of the judicial branch\u003c/a> will also be a political battle, depending on who wins the presidency and the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if Kamala Harris is elected president but Republicans take control of the Senate, her administration is likely to struggle to get appointments to lower courts confirmed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/nx-s1-5161578/supreme-court-harris-trump\">similar to Barack Obama’s term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yen hopes that if there is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001799/kamala-harris-put-abortion-at-the-center-of-the-election-what-her-california-record-shows\">a Harris presidency\u003c/a>, Democrats would “become bold enough to balance the court” — \u003ca href=\"https://demandjustice.org/priorities/supreme-court-reform/\">a common call\u003c/a> from left-leaning advocates critical of lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/kamala-harris-wants-to-reform-the-supreme-court/af03b7fe-5e17-44de-ac6d-cd4d0c0e0a63\">endorsed the idea of term limits\u003c/a> for justices in the country’s highest court. While Harris disavowed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.rutgers.edu/news/what-court-packing\">court-packing\u003c/a>,” she has called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/kamala-harris-wants-to-reform-the-supreme-court/af03b7fe-5e17-44de-ac6d-cd4d0c0e0a63\">reforms in the Supreme Court\u003c/a>, citing a growing lack of trust in the judicial branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current people on the Supreme Court are not neutral on reproductive rights, are not neutral on abortion, not neutral on reproductive freedom, and seem to tend towards a theocracy,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012287\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241101-REPROHEALTHCAREPROF-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sophia Yen, an advocate of women’s health rights, wears a uterus necklace at her home in Los Altos on Nov. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How reproductive rights show up in California’s local races\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates stress that the stakes of reproductive health in the U.S. do not just lie with the executive office and the Supreme Court. Democrats need just \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-democrats-could-take-the-house\">five seats to win control of the House\u003c/a>, and whether this happens “really depends on elections in California and New York,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, when Senate Republicans blocked \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/06/05/senate-vote-right-to-contraception-act-birth-control-access/\">the Right to Contraception Act\u003c/a>, San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi wrote in a statement that GOP resistance “should come as no surprise,” citing the 195 Republicans who voted against the House’s version of the act in 2022. Though eight House Republicans voted in favor of the act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/the-8-republicans-vote-to-protect-federal-right-to-contraception-2022-7\">none of them\u003c/a> were from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Republicans who voted against the 2022 act are up for reelection. They include \u003ca href=\"https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/33019/87001/26777/right-to-contraception-act#87001\">Rep. Ken Calvert\u003c/a>, who is facing a challenge from Democrat Will Rollins in Southern California’s Riverside County. (Calvert said he supported competing Republican-backed bills that \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-votes-expand-access-contraceptives\">expanded contraceptive use\u003c/a> but kept protections for religious health care providers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, Rep. David Valadao, who co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1011\">Life at Conception Act in 2022\u003c/a>, is running against Democrat Rudy Salas. The anti-abortion incumbent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article294294674.html\">did not co-sponsor\u003c/a> the legislation again in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yen, these Democratic challengers “could help us gain control in the House for those that support reproductive rights, voting rights and \u003ca href=\"https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/08/26/jewish-congregations-mount-legal-challenges-to-state-abortion-bans/\">freedom of religion\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Californians who care about abortion rights and live in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-abortion-election-congress/\">one of these districts\u003c/a>, it’s very important to look at their record and see a lot of them are obfuscating and outright lying about where they are on this issue,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, anti-abortion candidates for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959451/culture-wars-escalate-as-state-takes-on-school-boards-over-lgbtq-rights\">school boards\u003c/a> and city councils could potentially also seek to enact “really extreme measures that are out of sync with Californians’ inclusive and pro-rights values,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californian votes really matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people gather holding signs with messages like, \"My body, my choice\" written on them in colorful marker.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Prop1_KQED_AbortionRallySF-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people gather during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, as part of a nationwide response against the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade. Recent polling shows 71% of Californians say they’ll vote yes on Proposition 1, which would enshrine abortion and contraception access into the state constitution. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>California abortion — for residents and visitors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has stronger protections for reproductive rights than much of the country, especially after voters added the right to an abortion to the state constitution in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, reports have shown that people in the state’s rural areas have a hard time accessing care due to the lack of facilities nearby that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934819/for-rural-californians-abortion-is-legal-but-its-not-always-accessible\">can perform abortions\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is troubling that, even here in California where access to reproductive healthcare is a constitutional right, Beverly Hills officials have taken actions reminiscent of those in extremist red states by illegally interfering with, and ultimately preventing a new reproductive healthcare clinic from opening,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also the influx of \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-orange-san-bernardino/about-us/news/demand-has-quadrupled-at-some-california-abortion-clinics-since-roe-fell\">out-of-state patients\u003c/a> traveling to California for abortion care when access is restricted in their own states, leading to increased wait times and crowded clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area “provides care for the millions of women of reproductive age in the region” and out of state, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the system is a little stressed,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://thegepi.org/gepi-sfdosw-report-bay-area-abortion-rights/\">citing the need\u003c/a> for “better coordination” and increased resources across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Katherine Brown, medical director of the \u003ca href=\"https://obgyn.ucsf.edu/gynecology/katherine-brown-md-mas\">Black Wellness Clinic at UCSF\u003c/a>, said she and her colleagues have seen “people from all over the country more than we did before. We have patients coming from places like Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My patients already went through a lot prior to the Dobbs decision. But now, they have to go through a lot more hoops to even get the care that they need,” she said, noting the high costs of such cross-country travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always wonder about the people that don’t make it,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris is pictured sitting in a yellow seat on a stage.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the ‘Fight for Reproductive Freedoms’ tour at Mexican Heritage Plaza in San José on Jan. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could a Harris presidency look like when it comes to reproductive rights?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a California prosecutor, Harris had a strong record of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001799/kamala-harris-put-abortion-at-the-center-of-the-election-what-her-california-record-shows\">protecting abortion rights\u003c/a>. She has said that if she were to win the presidency, she would \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7096543/kamala-harris-abortion-plan-2024/\">sign a bill\u003c/a> reinstating \u003cem>Roe’s\u003c/em> protections into law if Congress passes it. Harris could also use her authority to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/31/g-s1-31186/up-first-newsletter-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories-kamala-harris-donald-trump-abortion-policies\">strengthen privacy laws\u003c/a>, which could protect people with uteruses from being prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said there are opportunities with this election to amend the inequities that have faced some Americans. For example, she said \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> was “imperfect” — noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-hyde-amendment-and-coverage-for-abortion-services-under-medicaid-in-the-post-roe-era/#:~:text=Starting%20in%201977%2C%20the%20Hyde,result%20from%20rape%20or%20incest.\">due to federal law\u003c/a>, many people on Medicaid could not have the costs of their abortion covered. (California’s version of the program, Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov/assets/26092CC9-AAAF-432E-A672-85D649215F8A/abort.pdf?access_token=6UyVkRRfByXTZEWIh8j8QaYylPyP5ULO\">does cover abortion\u003c/a>, however.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to abortion needs to be a protected right no matter where you are,” she said. “Insurance needs to be able to cover it, no matter what type of insurance you have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she is anxious for Election Day, she said she is also “guardedly hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the opportunity to move beyond \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and find something that’s better,” she said. “That really honors reproductive freedom, reproductive autonomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s where I find my hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/\">upcoming election\u003c/a>, less than a week away, could reshape the U.S. Supreme Court — or not, depending on retirements, deaths, or other unforeseen events. The only certainty is political struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on who wins the presidential election, \u003cem>and\u003c/em> control of the Senate, the current 6–to–3 conservative supermajority could remain the same, be trimmed to 5–to–4, or expand to an even larger and more lopsided conservative majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president,Learn about the U.S. Presidential Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-Presidential-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public, for the most part, understands that if there is a Supreme Court vacancy, the president’s nominee will generally reflect the president’s views. But, there is a genuine possibility that if the Senate is controlled by the opposition party, the open seat will remain unfilled — not for months, but for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, there is also a real possibility that lower court seats will go unfilled, unless there is significant backroom horse-trading. In short, with power split between the White House and the Senate, there could be unprecedented gridlock on judicial nominations that extends all the way up to the Supreme Court and down to the appellate and even district courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Merrick Garland treatment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Republicans have wielded their power in unprecedented ways to prevent a president’s Supreme Court nominee from being confirmed. When conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly in 2016, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell immediately announced that no Obama nominee would be considered at all prior to the election that was nearly a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624467256/what-happened-with-merrick-garland-in-2016-and-why-it-matters-now\">went ahead anyway\u003c/a>, figuring that old norms would prevail if he nominated a respected and centrist judge, someone acceptable to both Democrats and Republicans. Judge Merrick Garland seemed the best fit, but Garland didn’t even get a hearing, much less a vote. Four years later, after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87\">death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u003c/a>, Senate Republicans put the pedal to the metal just weeks before the election, rapidly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/927640619/senate-confirms-amy-coney-barrett-to-the-supreme-court\">pushing through the confirmation of judge, now Justice, Amy Coney Barrett\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, conservatives are just as determined to keep or expand their 6–to–3 Supreme Court majority. So what happens if Kamala Harris is elected president, but the Senate flips to Republican control?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll give you the Merrick Garland treatment,” says conservative scholar Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law, Houston. “We’ll have the seat open for three or four years,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Trump win and a Democratic Senate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Would the reverse happen if Trump is elected but the Senate remains in Democratic hands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats like to think of themselves as “more responsible” than Republicans, but the pressures would be enormous to do unto the Republicans what they did to the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans “essentially crossed the Rubicon” in 2016 with the Garland nomination, says Harvard law professor Noah Feldman, who has written extensively about the court’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given that we’re in a world of … controversial revolutionary decisions, neither party would be likely to give a positive vote to a nominee of the president from the opposite party,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NYU law professor Bob Bauer, who served as White House counsel for two years in the Obama administration, notes that institutional norms aren’t necessarily permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole notion that “a certain process has to be respected, regardless of the potential impact on one party or another,” he says. “It’s not a norm if it doesn’t command general adherence anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what if Trump is elected, and the Senate flips, as expected, to Republican control? The only thing then standing between nominating and confirming a new Trump-appointed justice would be two moderate Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. If the Republican margin in the Senate is 52–48, their votes aren’t needed; JD Vance would cast the tie-breaking vote as vice president even if Murkowski and Collins voted against the nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what recourse would the Democrats have in a situation like that? How would they fight a Trump nomination? After all, there is no filibuster anymore to block a vote. Democrats abolished the filibuster for lower court nominations in 2011 in response to Republicans routinely blocking judicial nominations. Republicans then abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in 2017 after Trump was elected and nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat that GOP leader McConnell had held open after Scalia’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are only candid about this when speaking not for attribution. As one put it, “We would largely be left with the politics of personal destruction, investigating every aspect of a nominee’s life to find something that is disqualifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unforeseen circumstances\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, right now, there is no vacant seat at the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the deaths of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg prove that nothing is certain, they were far older than any member of the current court. Scalia was just days shy of turning 80 and Ginsburg was 87. In contrast, the oldest members of the current court are also among its most conservative. Justice Clarence Thomas is 76 and Justice Samuel Alito is 74, followed by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, and Chief Justice Roberts, 69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most politically active conservative thinkers would like to see Thomas and Alito step down for younger conservative judges who could serve for many decades longer and move the conservative needle even further to the right. They see as their “farm team” the ultra-conservative Fifth Circuit Court of appeals, populated with former Thomas and Alito clerks whose decisions are often reversed even by the current conservatives on the Supreme Court, including the men they once clerked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those who know Thomas and Alito well are adamant that neither man would leave the court at this point. Several NPR spoke to would only speak candidly on condition of anonymity. “What would he do, go home and fly flags with his wife at the beach?” said one Alito ally, adding that the court is “Alito’s life.” As for Thomas, his friends and former clerks say he would see retirement as “caving into his critics” and being “driven off the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if there are no retirements or unexpected health crises, the court could well remain as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A period of dysfunction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That leaves the lower courts, which get less attention than the Supreme Court, but decide many more cases. During the last year of the Obama administration, when Republicans controlled the Senate, not one nominee to a regional appeals court was confirmed, though 10 trial court judges, a tiny fraction of vacancies, were. The result was that on the day Trump was sworn in, there were 105 judicial vacancies to fill.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11992718,forum_2010101906513,news_12011637\"]Professor Blackman expects that if Harris is elected and Republicans control the Senate, something similar could happen for a full four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may just stop, confirming” any lower court judges, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other conservatives think that is far too dire a prediction. They expect that especially in states where both senators are Democrats, there would be horse-trading and a deal that allocates judicial seats — basically, the Democrats get one, for example, for every two or three GOP nominees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard’s Feldman says he sees no light at the end of the tunnel when the parties are split, with a president of one party, and a Senate controlled by the other party. But dysfunction, he thinks could lead to change … eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have what I call the incredible shrinking Supreme Court,” he says, adding that “if we have divided government and we have justices naturally retiring or dying and they don’t get replaced, we could go down to eight, to seven, to six and eventually the public might start to notice and complain about it, and then some sort of compromise formation might be reached.” That said, he acknowledges a process like that could take 15 or 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he’s right, the end of dysfunction is a long way of off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Justice Clarence Thomas, the most senior and seasoned Supreme Court justice, provides a lesson of longevity and power. If he serves another three years, he will break Justice William O. Douglas’ 36-year record for length of service on the court. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Trump win and a Democratic Senate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Would the reverse happen if Trump is elected but the Senate remains in Democratic hands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats like to think of themselves as “more responsible” than Republicans, but the pressures would be enormous to do unto the Republicans what they did to the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans “essentially crossed the Rubicon” in 2016 with the Garland nomination, says Harvard law professor Noah Feldman, who has written extensively about the court’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given that we’re in a world of … controversial revolutionary decisions, neither party would be likely to give a positive vote to a nominee of the president from the opposite party,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NYU law professor Bob Bauer, who served as White House counsel for two years in the Obama administration, notes that institutional norms aren’t necessarily permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole notion that “a certain process has to be respected, regardless of the potential impact on one party or another,” he says. “It’s not a norm if it doesn’t command general adherence anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what if Trump is elected, and the Senate flips, as expected, to Republican control? The only thing then standing between nominating and confirming a new Trump-appointed justice would be two moderate Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. If the Republican margin in the Senate is 52–48, their votes aren’t needed; JD Vance would cast the tie-breaking vote as vice president even if Murkowski and Collins voted against the nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what recourse would the Democrats have in a situation like that? How would they fight a Trump nomination? After all, there is no filibuster anymore to block a vote. Democrats abolished the filibuster for lower court nominations in 2011 in response to Republicans routinely blocking judicial nominations. Republicans then abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in 2017 after Trump was elected and nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat that GOP leader McConnell had held open after Scalia’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are only candid about this when speaking not for attribution. As one put it, “We would largely be left with the politics of personal destruction, investigating every aspect of a nominee’s life to find something that is disqualifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unforeseen circumstances\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, right now, there is no vacant seat at the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the deaths of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg prove that nothing is certain, they were far older than any member of the current court. Scalia was just days shy of turning 80 and Ginsburg was 87. In contrast, the oldest members of the current court are also among its most conservative. Justice Clarence Thomas is 76 and Justice Samuel Alito is 74, followed by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, and Chief Justice Roberts, 69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most politically active conservative thinkers would like to see Thomas and Alito step down for younger conservative judges who could serve for many decades longer and move the conservative needle even further to the right. They see as their “farm team” the ultra-conservative Fifth Circuit Court of appeals, populated with former Thomas and Alito clerks whose decisions are often reversed even by the current conservatives on the Supreme Court, including the men they once clerked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those who know Thomas and Alito well are adamant that neither man would leave the court at this point. Several NPR spoke to would only speak candidly on condition of anonymity. “What would he do, go home and fly flags with his wife at the beach?” said one Alito ally, adding that the court is “Alito’s life.” As for Thomas, his friends and former clerks say he would see retirement as “caving into his critics” and being “driven off the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if there are no retirements or unexpected health crises, the court could well remain as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A period of dysfunction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That leaves the lower courts, which get less attention than the Supreme Court, but decide many more cases. During the last year of the Obama administration, when Republicans controlled the Senate, not one nominee to a regional appeals court was confirmed, though 10 trial court judges, a tiny fraction of vacancies, were. The result was that on the day Trump was sworn in, there were 105 judicial vacancies to fill.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We’re almost there, folks. Two years of nonstop campaigning for the White House will finally come to a close this Tuesday, Nov. 5, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008419/ballot-drop-off-location-near-me-early-voting-site-election-2024\">Election Day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Pew Research Center found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/americans-dismal-views-of-the-nations-politics/\">65% of Americans say they always or often feel “exhausted” when thinking about politics\u003c/a>. And that was before all the dramatic twists and turns of 2024 that have given us the present circumstances: Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/politics/poll-harris-trump-times-siena.html\">deadlocked in the polls of every single swing state\u003c/a>, leaving even the most experienced political analysts with little clue of who will be the next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But besides election exhaustion, there are other feelings felt across the political spectrum, from anxiety and frustration to straight-up fear. Among many undocumented and mixed-status immigrant families, for example, there’s a lot of nervousness about Trump enacting what he calls “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtpORNvI26w\">the largest deportation program in American history\u003c/a>.” After the former president survived a public assassination attempt in July at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, a large number of his most ardent supporters \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/after-the-assassination-attempt-against-trump-anger-and-anxiety-loom-over-the-republican-convention\">fear that Trump could be targeted again\u003c/a>. And as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011576/what-do-young-voters-care-about-most-in-this-presidential-election\">millions of Gen Z Americans prepare to cast their votes for the first time\u003c/a>, many have shared \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967133/charli-xcx-fans-election-2024-harris-trump\">their frustration that neither candidate may do enough to protect the lives of Palestinians in Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re feeling these big emotions, you’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s normalize [feeling] anxious because it is a very high-stakes election,” said Kelli McLean, a California marriage and family therapist who works on issues relating to trauma, anxiety and depression with her clients. “This is anxiety-provoking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times when we’re feeling a certain type of way about something, it comes out in other ways we don’t expect,” said Ioanna Angelakis, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in San Francisco. “So it’s really important to be honest and truthful with yourself and others about what’s going on and to formulate a plan, so you have something to fall back on — should the worst thing happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for expert advice on the things you can do before, on and after Nov. 5 to help manage anxiety about the 2024 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Try to consume less election news\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When something is very important to us, it’s normal for us to keep checking on it as much as we can. In a presidential election as unpredictable as this one, we may have the TV on all the time or be constantly checking social media to see if there’s any tiny piece of new information that will give us hope that things will “go our way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seeking out this feeling of control — in a situation that frankly cannot be controlled by any one single individual — can lead to us feeling even more helpless, McClean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a direct correlation between how much anxiety people are feeling to what they’re watching,” she said. “The election is everywhere, and people are inundating themselves with this. It’s information overload.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recommendation McLean has been sharing with her clients is to stay away from social media as much as they can — or as much as they can bear — for the next few days. “They’re limiting their exposure to these 24-hour news cycles, which can be anxiety-provoking for people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remember, polls aren’t crystal balls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/3825/what-is-the-electoral-college-and-is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-it\">seven swing states that are key to winning the election\u003c/a>, polls have switched back and forth between a Trump lead and a Harris lead for weeks now. While you may look for any sliver of hope in new polls, keep in mind that most recent polls \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harris-trump-poll-pennsylvania-29-10-2024/\">have only changed by 1 or 2 percentage points\u003c/a>, which is within a poll’s margin of error — the window of uncertainty your poll results may have. For example, in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harris-poll-gender-gap/\">Oct. 28 CBS News/YouGov poll of registered voters in Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, Harris and Trump are tied 49%–49%, but the margin of error is 2.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls are, after all, surveys of smaller groups meant to reflect a larger population. While Harris and Trump are tied among the smaller group surveyed, that doesn’t mean that in all of Pennsylvania, there’s a perfect tie among those who plan to vote for Harris and Trump. The margin of error tells us that the candidates’ numbers could actually be a little higher or a little lower — within that 2.6% range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this goes to say that it’s probably a good idea to limit how much we look at polls. Remember: the 2016 and 2020 elections delivered many electoral surprises that polls didn’t predict. Since then, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/370649/trust-polls-2016-2020-election-2024-pollster-polling-miss\">pollsters have refined their methods\u003c/a> — but even they say that polls are not “perfectly predictive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why therapists like Angelakis are reminding their clients to accept the uncertainty in this major event and work from there. “The future is unpredictable and unknown — it’s a mystery,” she said. “All we can do is just stay grounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Enjoy the weekend before Election Day as much as you can\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, the first Tuesday of November could be historic for the country. But let’s not forget that the first \u003cem>weekend\u003c/em> of November is quite special in its own right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diwali, the Hindu festival that celebrates light triumphing over darkness, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/diwali-deepavali-hindu-festival-19854481.php\">begins this year in the early hours of Thursday, Oct. 31\u003c/a>, and lasts until the next morning. Halloween is also on Thursday — a perfect excuse for families and friends to get together ahead of the weekend.[aside postID=science_1995033 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/10/Claremont-Canyon-by-Fred-Rowe-East-Bay-Regional-Park-District-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dia-de-los-muertos\">Día de los Muertos\u003c/a> will be celebrated across California, with cities like \u003ca href=\"https://www.dayofthedeadsf.org/\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/program/diaoakland/\">Oakland\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://diasanjose.com/\">San José\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://boyleheightsbeat.com/your-guide-to-free-dia-de-los-muertos-events-on-the-eastside/\">Los Angeles \u003c/a>hosting community-led celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enjoy your weekend,” Angelakis said. “Don’t let these fears take you over because they’re just fears right now … they’re not your reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967439/merlin-the-pig-northern-california-animals-house-pig-mina-alali-davis\">some joyful things going on to distract you\u003c/a>, and most importantly, find ways to laugh with your loved ones, she recommended. Even try to “poke fun at your fears,” Angelakis said, “and you can let out steam that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also read our guide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995033/12-bay-area-hikes-for-escaping-the-election-even-for-a-few-hours\">the outdoor spots in the Bay Area that might bring you a little calm and peace\u003c/a> in the run-up to Election Day and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parents and caregivers: Keep in mind the needs of your little ones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if your family doesn’t talk too much about politics at the dinner table, there’s still a chance that your child may be hearing about the election from their friends or classmates. Whether they share this directly with you or not, they may be absorbing the anxiety of others around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids are the spokespeople of their parents and their family’s fears,” Angelakis said. “When your child is acting out, or when your child is isolating, these are signs that your child is worried about something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is when it’s very important to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764070/how-to-talk-with-kids-after-a-traumatic-event\">age-appropriate conversations about what’s happening out in the world\u003c/a>, McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11764070]“If you’re dealing with a small child, know that a lot of this is too much for them to fully take in, and it can be traumatizing,” she said. “You can explain to them the process without going into scary details: ‘Two people are competing and they have different beliefs. People can get very mad and nervous about it. But you’re still going to be safe in this home with your parents.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to lie to them or over-promise, but just not expose them to things that are not appropriate on the news or social media,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59143/war-crisis-tragedy-how-to-talk-with-kids-when-the-news-is-scary\">\u003cem>Read KQED’s bilingual guide on how to talk to kids during difficult or scary major moments.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watch your anxiety levels on Election Day itself …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s Nov. 5. You — or those around — have already voted. And results of the presidential election start coming in at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, when the polls close on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every major TV network will have nonstop coverage of the results throughout the night, and it’s very likely that most restaurants, bars and community spaces with a television will be showing this coverage. But remember: you can choose how much of this coverage you consume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you know that waiting hours into the early morning for the results of each swing state — which just a few thousand votes could decide — will really set your anxiety spiraling, take breaks from watching. What might be even better for you is making a plan with family or friends to do something completely different on Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how much (or little) news you consume on Tuesday, remember: there will still be results at the end of the vote count — which could take days, like it did in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and focus on your breathing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another strategy that Angelakis recommends is giving yourself time for breathing exercises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take two breaths in and one breath out,” she said, adding that you can do as many of these exercises until you start feeling a little more grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you try that breathing, it feels really good,” Angelakis said. “It calms your nervous system down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She especially recommends doing these breathing exercises if anxious thoughts start coming in throughout Election Night. When you feel these thoughts rising, “visualize the best possible outcome in a day of your life,” she said, “from every last detail that you wake up until the moment you go to bed at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why: By bringing back our focus to our own lives and our own actions, we remind ourselves what is in our own control — and let go of worries about things out of our control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t forget the power you have in your own community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The results of this general election will not impact everyone equally — and this is true far beyond the presidential race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talking to folks from communities that are most vulnerable to policy shifts, McLean hears how folks sometimes feel disconnected from the decisions happening in Washington, D.C. “They feel powerless,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, “we are not powerless,” McClean said. “Getting involved in grassroots activism, something local in your own community, can help with these feelings of powerlessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Election Coverage' tag='election-2024']And remember that even if you can’t vote — whether it’s because of your immigration status, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009162/election-2024-what-are-the-voting-rights-of-current-and-formerly-incarcerated-californians\">criminal record\u003c/a> or age — you still have a lot of power. In the Bay Area, for example, the labor rights organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.tuwu.org/about\">Trabajadores Unidos Workers United\u003c/a> (TUWU) has helped undocumented workers organize themselves for years to demand and gain higher wages, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946661/ive-been-contributing-undocumented-workers-are-key-to-californias-economy-a-new-bill-would-give-them-unemployment-benefits\">labor protections\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005037/sf-proposes-relief-fund-to-aid-wage-theft-victims-left-unpaid-by-employers\">social services\u003c/a> at the local and state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are multi-year fights. 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Society of Professional Journalists ethics leaders condemned the owners’ actions on Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=3041\">saying in a statement\u003c/a> that they worry it “marks the beginning, and not the end, of such interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesse Garnier, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.sfsu.edu/\">journalism department at San Francisco State University\u003c/a>, said that kind of influence over a newspaper’s publishing further erodes the public’s trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newspapers have lost a lot of their value and their trust within their communities, and standing on the sidelines and not speaking up to endorse a presidential candidate is just another example of that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garnier said that when newspapers stop endorsing candidates, they also stop doing the legwork for their communities by considering their values and needs and viewing a candidate and their potential impact on them. 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Times\u003c/em> didn’t endorse candidates for president from 1976 to 2008, but the \u003cem>Post’s\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Times’\u003c/em> decisions not to endorse a candidate for president just days from Election Day in a tight race is odd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12005501 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/KamalaWalzAP.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It adds to the surprise, the appearance, the uproar,” Sweeney said. “I would have certainly been much more comfortable if that was going to be my directive had it come a few months earlier, a year earlier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/opinion/santa-rosa-election-endorsement-kamala-harris/\">\u003cem>Press Democrat’s\u003c/em> endorsement of Harris\u003c/a>, Sweeney wrote the arguments for electing her “are just as persuasive as the arguments for defeating Donald Trump.” The top comment on that piece thanks the paper for not being at “the whims of an owner” like the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> or the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, under previous owners, the \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em> editorial page was barred from endorsing a candidate, specifically in the 2012 election between then-President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Sweeney said that immediately changed under the newspaper’s current owner, Sonoma Media Investments, who doesn’t tell him what goes on the editorial page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An important part of the endorsement process is vetting, Sweeney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People come in and talk to us. Candidates will sit with us for a couple of hours and answer all our questions, and it’s our opportunity to kind of give our best judgment,” he said. “Oftentimes, we’ll use the word ‘recommendation’ rather than ‘endorsement.’ It’s not telling anybody how to vote, but we feel like we’ve got some insight and some information, and people can take it and weigh it with all of the other things that they may be considering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/california-sf-election-endorsements/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle’s\u003c/em> endorsement page\u003c/a> lists its pick for president as “coming soon,” and the Bay Area News Group, which publishes the Mercury News and East Bay Times, is currently working on its endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are news outlets that have a firm policy to never endorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12010472 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/072024_Vance-Trump_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://citysidejournalism.org/\">Cityside\u003c/a> — which operates local newsrooms in Berkeley, Oakland and Richmond — can’t endorse candidates because its outlets are nonprofits, and \u003ca href=\"https://inn.org/about/membership-standards/\">IRS rules\u003c/a> prohibit them from favoring any candidate for public office. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It adds to the surprise, the appearance, the uproar,” Sweeney said. “I would have certainly been much more comfortable if that was going to be my directive had it come a few months earlier, a year earlier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/opinion/santa-rosa-election-endorsement-kamala-harris/\">\u003cem>Press Democrat’s\u003c/em> endorsement of Harris\u003c/a>, Sweeney wrote the arguments for electing her “are just as persuasive as the arguments for defeating Donald Trump.” The top comment on that piece thanks the paper for not being at “the whims of an owner” like the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> or the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, under previous owners, the \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em> editorial page was barred from endorsing a candidate, specifically in the 2012 election between then-President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Sweeney said that immediately changed under the newspaper’s current owner, Sonoma Media Investments, who doesn’t tell him what goes on the editorial page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An important part of the endorsement process is vetting, Sweeney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People come in and talk to us. Candidates will sit with us for a couple of hours and answer all our questions, and it’s our opportunity to kind of give our best judgment,” he said. “Oftentimes, we’ll use the word ‘recommendation’ rather than ‘endorsement.’ It’s not telling anybody how to vote, but we feel like we’ve got some insight and some information, and people can take it and weigh it with all of the other things that they may be considering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/california-sf-election-endorsements/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle’s\u003c/em> endorsement page\u003c/a> lists its pick for president as “coming soon,” and the Bay Area News Group, which publishes the Mercury News and East Bay Times, is currently working on its endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are news outlets that have a firm policy to never endorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://citysidejournalism.org/\">Cityside\u003c/a> — which operates local newsrooms in Berkeley, Oakland and Richmond — can’t endorse candidates because its outlets are nonprofits, and \u003ca href=\"https://inn.org/about/membership-standards/\">IRS rules\u003c/a> prohibit them from favoring any candidate for public office. (Note: This reporter is currently working on contract with Cityside’s Richmondside newsroom.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lance Knobel, Cityside’s CEO, said that even if they had a for-profit or other funding structure, they wouldn’t automatically do endorsements because they run the “pretty dominant” news source in three East Bay cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m wary of using that position to advocate for one politician or another,” Knobel said. “I think if we were in a situation like the national one, I probably wouldn’t hesitate if we weren’t a nonprofit because when there’s a choice between good and evil, that’s not too difficult a thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday, Knobel sent emails to Cityside subscribers, assuring them that Berkeleyside, Oaklandside and Richmondside don’t have billionaire owners, which Knobel said was an opportunity to re-emphasize why it’s important to support independent nonprofit local news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the email, Knobel wrote that the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> took the path of “anticipatory obedience,” a term used to describe one of the steps a society takes before it falls to tyranny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knobel said the \u003cem>Times’\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Post’s\u003c/em> owners’ decision to not state a preference for the next president is rooted in fear and economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most basic kind of game theory for somebody who’s running a business is, I will do this public act of obeisance as a way to hopefully not get on an enemies list because, on the other side, it’s of absolutely no consequence whatsoever,” he said. “Nobody’s going to come after me for this if Kamala Harris is the next president of the United States, so I just need to cover my bases. It may be as simple as that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ix months ago, young people began camping out on college campuses across the country, demanding that President Joe Biden stop military aid to Israel and force an immediate cease-fire. Weeks later, high schoolers joined in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, 18-year-old Anaya Sayal was finishing her senior year in San Ramon. Halimah Houston, 20, was in her first year of community college in Richmond. Both were so upset by Biden’s support of Israel that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996920/young-voters-seek-more-from-harris-on-climate-action-and-a-cease-fire-in-israel\">they told KQED they wouldn’t vote for him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone’s seeing him as ‘Genocide Joe,’” Houston said about President Joe Biden this spring. “It’s just like disappointment after disappointment; that’s what was going through my head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston and Sayal believed he wouldn’t take an outright stance against the war because he was too “scared” of losing voters. “So much of the older generations support Israel, but it’s a lot of the younger generations that are supporting Palestine,” Sayal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two first-time voters watched through gritted teeth the ups and downs of the election cycle — from Biden as the Democratic nominee and two assassination attempts on Trump to the presidential debate and Biden’s decision to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the only other option is Trump,” said Sayal, who is now in her first semester at UCLA. “You just got to pick the better of the two because there are no great options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Sayal and Houston breathed sighs of relief when Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee in August. The hope of change made it somewhat easy for the two to envision Harris as the next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a lot more excited now because before, it was just choosing between the better of the two evils,” Sayal said. “Overall, she would do a better job in office than Biden. But I think she’ll probably come under more scrutiny because she’s a woman of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-time voter Anaya Sayal poses for a photo on the UCLA campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anaya Sayal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Political science experts don’t think the two young women’s last-minute switch is an anomaly. They believe that if enough young people turn out on Nov. 5, they could help sway the election because 18- to 24-year-olds are more numerous than older Americans who vote more frequently. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fandomvote\">not all young people have changed their minds\u003c/a> like Houston and Sayal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the war in Gaza remains a top concern. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">More than one year has passed\u003c/a> since the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 people in Israel. Since then, Israel has continued its unrelenting military assault on Gaza, which has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/g-s1-19232/kamala-harris-israel-gaza-dnc\">Harris said she was pushing for a cease-fire at an August rally in Arizona\u003c/a>, Houston and Sayal felt slightly better about her as the presidential nominee. But she’s also supported Israel’s right to defend itself and hasn’t said the U.S. should halt aid to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to see the action, and I hope it comes to fruition soon,” Houston said. “By voting for Harris, I feel like there’s a shot of getting a cease-fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000903/some-california-democrats-want-an-arms-embargo-on-israel-how-far-will-they-push-kamala-harris\">not all progressive first-time voters support Harris\u003c/a> due to frustrations over the U.S.’s support for Israel. Aniya Butler, a 19-year-old from Oakland, said she won’t vote for president this election and, instead, will focus on local priorities as a climate organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young Black woman, Butler sees a vote for Harris as a betrayal to her ancestors because of the candidate’s lack of action on a cease-fire. Butler identifies with the struggles of Palestinians because her own family experienced slavery. She also said that not voting for president won’t impact California much because the state is deeply blue, and Harris is all but guaranteed to win its electoral votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aniya Butler poses for a portrait at Dimond Park in Oakland on Oct. 22. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“With these atrocities now to be on camera for all of us to see — Kamala, as a Black woman, has the responsibility to somehow ease and end that pain as someone who is literally the vice president of the United States,” said Butler, currently taking a gap year before starting at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has not handled it well at all. It’s absolutely disgusting,” Butler added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Social media’s influence on young voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Polling experts like Mark Baldassare with the Public Policy Institute of California aren’t surprised that young voters like Houston and Sayal would shift their positions on voting for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An election that was in the abstract after the March primary has now become very real, and the choices people have to make are real,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare said the candidate’s use of social media to sway young voters — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967133/charli-xcx-fans-election-2024-harris-trump\">the brat-ification of Harris’ campaign\u003c/a> to a fake AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement of Trump — is shaping how young people vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more they see on social media, the more likely they are to go from being an infrequent voter to a voter this time because they want their voices to be heard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13967133]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he said that Harris and Trump’s use of social media over the last six months has shown mixed results. For some young voters like Sayal, Harris’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997449/why-kamala-harris-is-having-a-brat-summer\">use of brat-green on social media\u003c/a> and her appearances on podcasts like “Call Her Daddy” helped convince them to support her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like, for the first time, a political candidate was trying to do something towards getting the attention of Gen Z,” Sayal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Butler, the attention the election has gained on social media, combined with images of war and human suffering, reinforced her view that Harris isn’t taking a cease-fire seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it serves as a reminder that times are oppressed for me, but they’re not [as] rough compared to what other people are experiencing right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathy Cohen, a University of Chicago political science professor and author of \u003ca href=\"https://genforwardsurvey.com/all-genforward-data/?fm=10&fy=2024\">a national poll of young voters by GenForward\u003c/a> and the university’s Institute of Politics, said her recent polling mirrors some young voters’ feelings, showing social media has garnered “excitement” for some voters but notes a “significant portion” would prefer a choice apart from Harris or Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the issues animating their disgust and unhappiness prior to Harris joining the field still animate their concerns,” she said. “They’ve been told the importance of this election. They feel better about the choices, but they’re still not satisfied with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A larger share of the pie’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s October poll found that 52% of young voters aged 18 to 26 said they would definitely vote. When asked which issue is the country’s most important problem, Gaza ranked behind economic growth, inflation, income equality, immigration and threats to American democracy. Only 4% of the 18- to 26-year-olds she polled cited Gaza as their top concern. Another recent poll from Harvard \u003ca href=\"https://iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/240922_Harvard%20IOP_Fall%202024%20Topline.pdf\">shows that just 1%\u003c/a> of young Americans surveyed ranked Gaza as the most concerning issue during this election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does surprise me,” she said. “We found that significant numbers of young people say that they don’t have an opinion on Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011477\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-05_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students at a Gaza Solidarity Encampment in front of Sproul Hall on Apr. 23. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her team also asked which candidate would best handle the war in Gaza and secure a cease-fire — 37% said Trump, and 22% of 18- to 26-year-olds said Harris. Cohen said her polling showcases a pervasive idea that Trump is a “strong leader,” and his promises to end the war in Ukraine may mean he would help end the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data shows that Black and AAPI young people felt Harris would handle the war in Gaza better than Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other political experts like Baldassare predict a turnout similar to 2020 when around 50% of eligible voters aged 18 to 24 participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think things are in place at this point for having a high turnout, perhaps exceeding what we saw in 2020,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Baldassare’s polling found that 26% of young voters — which he defines as 18 to 44 — in California were satisfied with the candidate choices this election. By September, that number had doubled to 50%, with “most of the change occurring among people who say they’re voting for Harris and Walz.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a significant increase among the younger voters in California between April and September,” he said. “At this point in California, targeting young voters is working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility that half of all young voters in California could turn out in this election is significant. Mindy Romero, director of the USC Center for Inclusive Democracy, notes that not all young voters agree on who should be president or how the next president should handle the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people care very much about the world around them, and they want to take action, but because of the disconnection they feel from the political process, and how it doesn’t bring them in, some will feel like voting is not an actionable stamp on the issues they care about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero is unsure if young voters will turn out in force in November even though it’s “an enormously consequential election.” But she said if young people exercised their voting power at the polls, they could make a difference. She said voters between 18 and 24 outnumber those aged 65 to 74, who typically turn out in large numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they voted at the same rate as older voters, they would have a larger share of the pie of voters who broke up the power of voters in November,” she said. “If that happened every election, my God, things would change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sayal, now surrounded by young people at UCLA, longs for the day the presidential race isn’t defined by a two-party system. She’s excited that Harris could become the first woman of color to be president. Sayal knows the race is close but has hope that more Gen Z young adults will be eligible to vote in this election than four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s definitely a lot more. And I think younger Gen Z voters are more likely to vote for Harris,” she said. “I think we could break the election.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the only other option is Trump,” said Sayal, who is now in her first semester at UCLA. “You just got to pick the better of the two because there are no great options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Sayal and Houston breathed sighs of relief when Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee in August. The hope of change made it somewhat easy for the two to envision Harris as the next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a lot more excited now because before, it was just choosing between the better of the two evils,” Sayal said. “Overall, she would do a better job in office than Biden. But I think she’ll probably come under more scrutiny because she’s a woman of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241025_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-time voter Anaya Sayal poses for a photo on the UCLA campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anaya Sayal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Political science experts don’t think the two young women’s last-minute switch is an anomaly. They believe that if enough young people turn out on Nov. 5, they could help sway the election because 18- to 24-year-olds are more numerous than older Americans who vote more frequently. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fandomvote\">not all young people have changed their minds\u003c/a> like Houston and Sayal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the war in Gaza remains a top concern. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">More than one year has passed\u003c/a> since the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 people in Israel. Since then, Israel has continued its unrelenting military assault on Gaza, which has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/g-s1-19232/kamala-harris-israel-gaza-dnc\">Harris said she was pushing for a cease-fire at an August rally in Arizona\u003c/a>, Houston and Sayal felt slightly better about her as the presidential nominee. But she’s also supported Israel’s right to defend itself and hasn’t said the U.S. should halt aid to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to see the action, and I hope it comes to fruition soon,” Houston said. “By voting for Harris, I feel like there’s a shot of getting a cease-fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000903/some-california-democrats-want-an-arms-embargo-on-israel-how-far-will-they-push-kamala-harris\">not all progressive first-time voters support Harris\u003c/a> due to frustrations over the U.S.’s support for Israel. Aniya Butler, a 19-year-old from Oakland, said she won’t vote for president this election and, instead, will focus on local priorities as a climate organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young Black woman, Butler sees a vote for Harris as a betrayal to her ancestors because of the candidate’s lack of action on a cease-fire. Butler identifies with the struggles of Palestinians because her own family experienced slavery. She also said that not voting for president won’t impact California much because the state is deeply blue, and Harris is all but guaranteed to win its electoral votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_YOUNGVOTERSGAZA_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aniya Butler poses for a portrait at Dimond Park in Oakland on Oct. 22. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“With these atrocities now to be on camera for all of us to see — Kamala, as a Black woman, has the responsibility to somehow ease and end that pain as someone who is literally the vice president of the United States,” said Butler, currently taking a gap year before starting at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has not handled it well at all. It’s absolutely disgusting,” Butler added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Social media’s influence on young voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Polling experts like Mark Baldassare with the Public Policy Institute of California aren’t surprised that young voters like Houston and Sayal would shift their positions on voting for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An election that was in the abstract after the March primary has now become very real, and the choices people have to make are real,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare said the candidate’s use of social media to sway young voters — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967133/charli-xcx-fans-election-2024-harris-trump\">the brat-ification of Harris’ campaign\u003c/a> to a fake AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement of Trump — is shaping how young people vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more they see on social media, the more likely they are to go from being an infrequent voter to a voter this time because they want their voices to be heard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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For some young voters like Sayal, Harris’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997449/why-kamala-harris-is-having-a-brat-summer\">use of brat-green on social media\u003c/a> and her appearances on podcasts like “Call Her Daddy” helped convince them to support her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like, for the first time, a political candidate was trying to do something towards getting the attention of Gen Z,” Sayal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Butler, the attention the election has gained on social media, combined with images of war and human suffering, reinforced her view that Harris isn’t taking a cease-fire seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it serves as a reminder that times are oppressed for me, but they’re not [as] rough compared to what other people are experiencing right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathy Cohen, a University of Chicago political science professor and author of \u003ca href=\"https://genforwardsurvey.com/all-genforward-data/?fm=10&fy=2024\">a national poll of young voters by GenForward\u003c/a> and the university’s Institute of Politics, said her recent polling mirrors some young voters’ feelings, showing social media has garnered “excitement” for some voters but notes a “significant portion” would prefer a choice apart from Harris or Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the issues animating their disgust and unhappiness prior to Harris joining the field still animate their concerns,” she said. “They’ve been told the importance of this election. They feel better about the choices, but they’re still not satisfied with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A larger share of the pie’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s October poll found that 52% of young voters aged 18 to 26 said they would definitely vote. When asked which issue is the country’s most important problem, Gaza ranked behind economic growth, inflation, income equality, immigration and threats to American democracy. Only 4% of the 18- to 26-year-olds she polled cited Gaza as their top concern. 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Cohen said her polling showcases a pervasive idea that Trump is a “strong leader,” and his promises to end the war in Ukraine may mean he would help end the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data shows that Black and AAPI young people felt Harris would handle the war in Gaza better than Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other political experts like Baldassare predict a turnout similar to 2020 when around 50% of eligible voters aged 18 to 24 participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think things are in place at this point for having a high turnout, perhaps exceeding what we saw in 2020,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Baldassare’s polling found that 26% of young voters — which he defines as 18 to 44 — in California were satisfied with the candidate choices this election. By September, that number had doubled to 50%, with “most of the change occurring among people who say they’re voting for Harris and Walz.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a significant increase among the younger voters in California between April and September,” he said. “At this point in California, targeting young voters is working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In January 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/congress-electoral-college-count-tracker/\">seven of the 11 California Republicans in Congress\u003c/a> refused to certify the 2020 presidential election results, boosting former President Donald Trump’s false claim that he lost in a rigged vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as Trump attempts a return to the White House, only a third of California’s Republican U.S. representatives have pledged to certify the results this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only four of the 12 GOP incumbents — who are all seeking another term — have promised to uphold the election results. Of the three GOP challengers in California’s most competitive districts, two — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009870/dave-min-scott-baugh-vie-for-competitive-orange-county-house-seat\">Scott Baugh in Orange County\u003c/a> and Kevin Lincoln in the Central Valley — made the same pledge in response to a CalMatters inquiry. And in California’s U.S. Senate race, GOP candidate Steve Garvey made the commitment in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/senate-debate-california/\">February\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refusal to commit by most GOP congressional candidates comes as Trump and his allies are already casting doubt on the outcome of the November election, stoking fear among election officials of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-workers-2024-threats-security-police-trump-kamala-biden-steal-c4f27414a5a90b67983b0349a370dd13\">disruptions and violence\u003c/a>. Trump has peddled unsubstantiated claims about widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/politics/republicans-noncitizen-voting-elections-trump/index.html\">voting by non-citizens\u003c/a>, argued that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/fact-check-trump-election-lies-2024/index.html\">only win if the Democrats cheat\u003c/a> and questioned the constitutionality of Democrats replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote by Congress to count all electoral votes that are already certified by each state is the final step in electing a president. Usually a formality, it was anything but after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Early the next morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/congress-electoral-college-count-tracker/\">147 Republican members of Congress\u003c/a> voted to object to the counting of Electoral College votes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/01/07/954380156/here-are-the-republicans-who-objected-to-the-electoral-college-count\">either Arizona or Pennsylvania, or both\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 44 California Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate at the time voted to certify the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight of California’s current Republican members of Congress were in office, but only Rep. Young Kim — who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-13/orange-county-house-election-results-young-kim-wins\">flipped her northern Orange County seat in 2020\u003c/a> — voted to certify the results without casting doubt on the election outcome. “The constitution does not give Congress the authority to overturn elections. To take such action would undermine the authority of the states,” she said in a \u003ca href=\"https://youngkim.house.gov/2021/01/05/young-kim-statement-joint-session-congress/\">statement \u003c/a>in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told CalMatters she plans to uphold the results of this election as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12010969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Kim talking to Republicans at the California GOP Convention in Indian Wells in 2019. (Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Tom McClintock was the only other California Republican to vote to certify the election. But \u003ca href=\"https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/columns/respecting-an-imperfect-system\">he said\u003c/a> it was because he believed Congress did not have the constitutional authority to reject the electoral votes — not because he didn’t have concerns about how the election was conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2020, however, McClintock was one of four California Republicans in Congress to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163550/20201211132250339_Texas%20v.%20Pennsylvania%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20126%20Representatives%20--%20corrected.pdf\">challenge the election outcome in Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, arguing that mail balloting “invites fraud and incubates suspicion of fraud” and claiming that “ballot harvesters” collected ballots with “no chain of custody.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-usa-mules-idUSL2N2XJ0OQ/\">Multiple fact checks\u003c/a> found \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-false-claims-debunked-2020-election-jan-6-riot-2022-01-06/\">no evidence\u003c/a> that there was widespread ballot harvesting or voter fraud during the 2020 election, and courts rejected more than 50 lawsuits Trump and his allies brought to challenge the election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock told CalMatters he will vote to uphold the electoral votes for the upcoming election. “Congress’ only role in the matter is to witness the counting of the ballots. Period,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4573\">Electoral Count Reform Act\u003c/a>, which made it more difficult for Congress to object to election results and clarified the vote-counting process. All California Republican incumbents who were in office at the time voted against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with that new guardrail, political experts say efforts to overturn the election are to be expected now. That’s a stark departure from a decade ago, said Kim Nalder, a political science professor at California State University in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really kind of horrifying that we’ve normalized this abnormal sort of situation,” she said. “We can’t survive with this level of distrust in our basic institutions, and I don’t know what will give to change that, but something has to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran lobbyist Chris Micheli said the presidential election results could be challenged again, partly because of how close\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/21/harris-trump-post-schar-school-poll/\"> polls say the race is in seven battleground states\u003c/a>. Both Harris and Trump are preparing legal teams in the case of a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a dark period of American history, both what transpired on Jan. 6, but also earlier that prior December, when members of Congress voted against certifying the election of the clear victor in the presidential election,” Micheli said. “Those votes raised the ire of a lot of voters, particularly in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Republican Party is confident that the election results will be certified, spokesperson Ellie Hockenbury said in a statement to CalMatters. Still, the party is preparing for issues that may arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make sure we didn’t leave anything to chance,” she said, the national and state GOP “have invested heavily in an \u003ca href=\"https://cagop.org/election-integrity/\">Election Integrity operation\u003c/a> to ensure that all concerns are addressed in real-time and that Californians can cast a ballot with confidence that it will be received and counted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Republican Party is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/donald-trump-california-republicans/\">firmly behind Trump\u003c/a>, who — despite losing to Biden 63% to 34% in 2020 — still won \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president\">more votes in California than any other state\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2024/\">new Public Policy Institute of California poll\u003c/a> released Wednesday night, Harris leads Trump 59% to 33% among likely voters. But in the swing congressional districts, likely voters are generally evenly divided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ken Calvert, who represents the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/us-house/#district-41\">41st District in Riverside County\u003c/a>, is the only California Republican member of Congress to commit to certifying the presidential election results this time after objecting four years ago. He also joined in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163550/20201211132250339_Texas%20v.%20Pennsylvania%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20126%20Representatives%20--%20corrected.pdf\">court brief\u003c/a> challenging Pennsylvania’s results in 2020 and advocated for a “thorough investigation” of \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-statement-counting-electoral-college-votes\">voter fraud allegations\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calvert’s campaign did not say why his position has shifted from four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jay Obernolte, who voted to object to the count, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2022/01/05/what-southern-california-house-republicans-say-about-jan-6-riot-one-year-later/amp/\">told Southern California News Group\u003c/a> in 2022 that he still had “serious constitutional reservations about the things that happened in those two states” — Arizona and Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reps. David Valadao and Michelle Steel missed the vote in 2021. Steel said she \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/01/07/heres-how-california-representatives-voted-on-certifying-bidens-election-and-who-is-calling-for-trumps-removal/\">had tested positive for COVID-19\u003c/a>, while Valadao \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/david-valadao-covid-coronavirus/9265460/\">had not been sworn in yet\u003c/a> because he also tested positive. However, Valadao said\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepDavidValadao/status/1346872202298355715\"> on social media\u003c/a> he would have voted to certify the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three incumbents who took office in 2023 will face that decision for the first time if they win re-election. But not everyone is answering the question: Rep. John Duarte — a Modesto farmer \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/us-house/#district-13\">facing a fierce challenge\u003c/a> from Democrat Adam Gray — is the only one to state his position publicly, telling The Sacramento Bee he would vote to certify the presidential election. (Duarte did not respond to a CalMatters inquiry.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reps. Kevin Kiley, Vince Fong, Doug LaMalfa, Darrell Issa and Mike Garcia, as well as Obernolte and Valadao, also did not respond to CalMatters inquiries. Matt Gunderson, a candidate for the toss-up 49th District in San Diego County, did not respond to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are reluctant to speak publicly about the issue because they’re concerned about losing votes from Trump supporters, strategists say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It puts Republicans in competitive districts in a difficult position,” said Jon Fleischman, former executive director of the California Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, they’re going to vote to certify the election results, but they don’t really want to inflame the conservative grassroots side either because they need them for their Get Out the Vote. So this is an issue that’s divisive for Republicans, and so I don’t think they want to talk about it much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Republicans running in swing districts, the answer to whether they will uphold the election outcome depends on which voters they want to court, Nalder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming out strongly in support of certification would make sense if the goal was to recruit some moderate voters or some voters from the other party in these close races,” she said. “But if the strategy is more about turnouts amongst their base … it probably makes sense to equivocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For GOP members of Congress in safe Republican districts, however, the calculation is more about their “future in the party,” Nalder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Assuming Trump wins, they will need to have loyalty exhibited within the party, and so having committed beforehand to something that the party maybe goes against later would not be helpful for their political career,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Early the next morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/congress-electoral-college-count-tracker/\">147 Republican members of Congress\u003c/a> voted to object to the counting of Electoral College votes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/01/07/954380156/here-are-the-republicans-who-objected-to-the-electoral-college-count\">either Arizona or Pennsylvania, or both\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 44 California Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate at the time voted to certify the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight of California’s current Republican members of Congress were in office, but only Rep. Young Kim — who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-13/orange-county-house-election-results-young-kim-wins\">flipped her northern Orange County seat in 2020\u003c/a> — voted to certify the results without casting doubt on the election outcome. “The constitution does not give Congress the authority to overturn elections. To take such action would undermine the authority of the states,” she said in a \u003ca href=\"https://youngkim.house.gov/2021/01/05/young-kim-statement-joint-session-congress/\">statement \u003c/a>in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told CalMatters she plans to uphold the results of this election as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12010969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Kim talking to Republicans at the California GOP Convention in Indian Wells in 2019. 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Instead of what we know, which is the real measure of the strength of [a] leader is based on who you lift up,” she said to cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This event, at a golf club in Scottsdale, just outside Phoenix, is one of many ways the Harris campaign is trying to broaden its coalition with just weeks left until Election Day — and with polls showing the presidential race is locked in a dead heat. Sunbelt states like Arizona and Nevada are key battlegrounds for the campaign’s efforts to reach out to groups they need to peel away from former President Donald Trump to win: disaffected Republicans, independents and Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Harris campaign isn’t doing it alone. About 25 minutes away, in a tiny strip mall, volunteers gather every day around noon. They’re preparing to walk Phoenix neighborhoods, often in triple-digit heat, knocking on doors to engage undecided voters and those who might not be planning to vote at all. 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Currently, between jobs, she doesn’t want to sit out an election she believes will determine not just America’s next four years but the next generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moran said that while Trump continues to emphasize immigration, the issues voters most frequently discuss with her are abortion rights and the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reproductive rights — it’s a big rallying call for a lot of people in Arizona. And even if they don’t agree with you on some other things, most people are like, this is so important,” she said. “The economy is huge. You know, everyone wants to talk about the cost of living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Cerrito resident Vanessa Warheit is a canvass lead with Seed the Vote. She took a leave from her day job as a climate policy advocate to decamp to Arizona for the final weeks of this campaign. Warheit said that even in a swing state like Arizona, where campaign signs blanket the streets and political ads bombard the airwaves, some people manage to tune it all out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how they managed to avoid the maelstrom of toxic political ads. But I think partly it’s because they’re so toxic… it’s incessant,” she said. “A lot of people just tune them out because they’re like, it’s too toxic. I can’t deal. I don’t want to, and I’m not going to pay attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With competing attack ads making claims of all kinds, many people just don’t know what to believe, Warheit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just try to stick their heads down and just hope it’ll all go away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a white shirt and shorts holds flyers with two people seated behind her.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seed the Vote volunteers prepare to canvass in Phoenix on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of Moran and Warheit’s job is to educate voters — not just about Harris’ policy proposals but also about the rest of the Arizona ballot, which includes a race for U.S. Senate, key legislative races and a ballot measure that would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution. Currently, abortion is illegal in Arizona after 15 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, both women said the issue of reproductive rights appears to be crossing traditional political lines and making Harris more attractive to voters who hadn’t seen it as a priority before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of support for abortion, it’s across gender lines,” Warheit said. “And it’s interesting because a lot of us before we got here sort of assumed that we were going to need to use kind of coded language like ‘reproductive rights.’ And for the most part, the words ‘abortion access’ resonate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the only issue that seems to be attracting strange bedfellows. At the GOP luncheon, the audience nodded along and clapped at Harris’ mentions of the Affordable Care Act and its mandate to cover people with preexisting conditions — legislation Republicans spent years trying to dismantle. However, an Arizona hero, the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, cast the deciding vote in 2017 to save the ACA — something that both Democrats and Republicans in the state remain incredibly proud of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mayor Giles introduced the vice president, he acknowledged the unlikely coalition.[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president,Learn about the U.S. Presidential Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-Presidential-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think many of the people in this room were initially attracted to this campaign because, frankly, we were anti-Trump,” he said. “We have very quickly become pro-Kamala, right? Kamala Harris will be a great president of the United States. Absolutely phenomenal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giles said Harris would prioritize the middle class, protect personal freedoms and promote “justice and equality” at the southern border. But he framed all those issues in terms of moral clarity and the U.S.’s role in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have an apparently unusual memory that lasts longer than four years. We can remember the humiliation that our country suffered for four years under a Trump presidency. And we’re committed to not letting that happen again,” he said. “(Harris) is someone who is aware of the moral leadership role that our country has traditionally held in this country and around the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01.jpg\" alt=\"Eight people sit inside a room talking to each other.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seed the Vote volunteers prepare to canvass in Phoenix on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vice president echoed that message in her remarks, stressing her commitment to including a diversity of voices in her administration. She promised to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet and told the group she also plans to create a bipartisan policy council to advise her if she’s elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are as a democracy (is) at play in this election,” she said. “Each of you have had the courage to say, hey, we may not agree on every single thing — that’s also what a democracy looks like. But foundational, first principles cannot be in question. Not for the sake of our children, not for the sake of our future and well-being, not for the sake of our standing in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country, not party, must be Americans first identity and priority, Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether she can convince enough voters in swing states like Arizona that she’s right could mean the difference between a Harris or Trump presidency come 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this kind of backward thinking coming from some folks that suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down. Instead of what we know, which is the real measure of the strength of [a] leader is based on who you lift up,” she said to cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This event, at a golf club in Scottsdale, just outside Phoenix, is one of many ways the Harris campaign is trying to broaden its coalition with just weeks left until Election Day — and with polls showing the presidential race is locked in a dead heat. Sunbelt states like Arizona and Nevada are key battlegrounds for the campaign’s efforts to reach out to groups they need to peel away from former President Donald Trump to win: disaffected Republicans, independents and Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Harris campaign isn’t doing it alone. About 25 minutes away, in a tiny strip mall, volunteers gather every day around noon. They’re preparing to walk Phoenix neighborhoods, often in triple-digit heat, knocking on doors to engage undecided voters and those who might not be planning to vote at all. It’s a joint effort between an Oakland-based group, Seed the Vote, which recruits and trains California volunteers and a union-affiliated, Arizona-based group called Worker Power. 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Currently, between jobs, she doesn’t want to sit out an election she believes will determine not just America’s next four years but the next generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moran said that while Trump continues to emphasize immigration, the issues voters most frequently discuss with her are abortion rights and the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reproductive rights — it’s a big rallying call for a lot of people in Arizona. And even if they don’t agree with you on some other things, most people are like, this is so important,” she said. “The economy is huge. You know, everyone wants to talk about the cost of living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Cerrito resident Vanessa Warheit is a canvass lead with Seed the Vote. She took a leave from her day job as a climate policy advocate to decamp to Arizona for the final weeks of this campaign. Warheit said that even in a swing state like Arizona, where campaign signs blanket the streets and political ads bombard the airwaves, some people manage to tune it all out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how they managed to avoid the maelstrom of toxic political ads. But I think partly it’s because they’re so toxic… it’s incessant,” she said. “A lot of people just tune them out because they’re like, it’s too toxic. I can’t deal. 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"content": "\u003cp>Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001412/kamala-harris-and-the-biggest-speech-of-her-life-5-takeaways-from-the-dnc\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> proudly played up her East Bay roots at the Democratic National Convention, but her political career was launched in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Harris, then a relatively unknown prosecutor, challenged the city’s incumbent district attorney. To the surprise of many, she won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ rise from elected office in San Francisco is extraordinary. Next month, she could become the first Black and South Asian woman elected President of the United States. She reached the doorstep of the presidency by following a path forged by those who used the city’s cutthroat politics as a proving ground for seeking higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein was the first woman to serve as San Francisco mayor before making her mark in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi speaks at the North Carolina Democratic Unity Dinner fundraiser in Raleigh, North Carolina, on July 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Karl B DeBlaker/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gavin Newsom climbed the ladder from an obscure city commission to become mayor and now governor of California with a national megaphone. He was elected mayor the same year Harris defeated her former boss, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11963548 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/110A3835-scaled-e1696541380321-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians have emerged from other California cities to establish a national profile — notably former President Ronald Reagan and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — but they were launched from Hollywood, not the Los Angeles political scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s political legacy raises the question: How can a relatively small city of 800,000 produce so many politicians with national and international prominence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city requires its elected officials to engage on a daily basis in complex discussions with informed constituents who will raise the most intricate of local issues, no matter if you are walking through the Presidio or attending an event at Delancey Street,” Harris said at the public memorial for Feinstein, who died in September 2023. “And this environment, I do believe, guided Dianne’s style of leadership, even after she reached the heights of national and global power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619.jpg\" alt=\"Woman speaks at lectern in front of building\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as San Francisco Mayor London Breed listens during the funeral for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein at City Hall in San Francisco on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former state Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who many would include on the city’s list of political titans, said the environment that launched Harris, Feinstein and many others can all be traced to one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phil Burton is the father of all of this — period. Literally,” Brown said recently, referring to the late Congressman who came within a vote of becoming House majority leader in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Burton began assembling what became known in San Francisco political circles as “the Burton Machine,” a coalition of religious leaders, unions and community activists who fine-tuned the art of winning elections. His brother, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11465091/democratic-heavyweight-john-burton-exiting-the-political-stage%7Chttps://www.kqed.org/news/11465091/democratic-heavyweight-john-burton-exiting-the-political-stage\">John Burton\u003c/a>, an advocate for civil rights and environmental protections, served in the state Assembly and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Phil Burton expanded the city’s Democratic Party’s membership to include people who were largely ignored until the civil rights era. Burton, Brown said, “noticed that minorities were being left out. And he began to structure the world of politics that literally caused involvement by that collection of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834223\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834223 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg 501w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblyman Leo T. McCarthy, Assemblyman Willie L. Brown, Congressman Phil Burton and Art Agnos in the early 1980s. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were all church and labor. Then we added ‘misfits’ — people who were pushed on the outside,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was the first to invite Chinese American and gay communities to be in the Democratic coalition. Successfully navigating San Francisco’s multicultural communities, with all their complex, nuanced issues and concerns, helps prepare politicians for the national stage, Brown argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that the current vice president can be so effective during the course of dialog in a debate is that’s what she had to do to survive here,” he said.\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was first elected to Congress in 1964. He used his political power to author landmark legislation, including the bill that created the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to protect the California coast — from northern Marin County to southern San Mateo County — from development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1962, Burton urged Brown, then a young defense attorney, to run to represent San Francisco in the state Assembly, a race he lost before being elected two years later. Burton also recruited Pelosi, then a homemaker living in Pacific Heights, to host fundraisers in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg\" alt=\"A row of flagpoles displaying rainbow flags stands in front of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow flags line the plaza in front of the San Francisco City Hall following the rulings brought down by the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Burton died suddenly in 1983, his widow, Sala, replaced him in Congress. Just before she died of cancer in 1987, she encouraged Pelosi to run for the seat. By then, Pelosi had become a prolific Democratic Party fundraiser but told KQED she had never really thought of running for office herself. In a special election to fill the seat, she faced more than a dozen opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a live debate at KQED, one opponent, city Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, said Pelosi was out of touch with average San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can she relate to people like me, a single parent, working mother?”’ Silver asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another opponent, Supervisor Harry Britt, criticized Pelosi during a campaign appearance for using her connections for national races and issues more than local politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would specifically challenge Nancy Pelosi to show one time in the last 20 years when those connections have been used, standing with the people of this community on issues of importance to this community,” Britt said. “One time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once elected, Pelosi leveraged relationships she made in San Francisco business circles, including in the emerging tech community, to become a prolific fundraiser for Democrats across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all paved the way for her to become the first female Speaker of the House. Three years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8XCVjDs_I\">Pelosi told KQED\u003c/a> that in her first race for Congress, she became the focus of all the other candidates once polls showed her leading the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002366\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker emerita of the House, speaks with KQED Forum host Mina Kim at the KQED offices in San Francisco before a live broadcast on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Then I became the target by everybody, and they started saying all these things,” she recalled. “These are people I had in my home, that I had done events for, and all of a sudden, I didn’t know anything about anything, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race toughened up Pelosi for the rigors of Beltway politics in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same could be said for Harris. She was a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office when she briefly dated Brown, then the Assembly speaker, in 1994 until after he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1995. Brown was her political mentor and helped open doors for Harris to the circles that wielded a lot of influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Prozan, who worked with Harris on her early campaigns, said San Francisco politics is like an episode of \u003cem>Survivor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The caliber of people who run against each other have brass knuckles and are street fighters,” Prozan said. “And so when you have the kind of competition for elective office that you have in San Francisco, that prepares you for the next level and the next level and the next level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, who previously served on the Board of Supervisors and in the state Assembly, famously described the city’s politics as a “knife fight in a phone booth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are used to playing very hardball, rough and tumble politics. It is not genteel,” he said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu, who told KQED he encouraged Harris to run for DA, said the city’s size and liberal politics mean campaigns get nasty and personal fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just squished up against each other in the political spectrum and trying to carve minuscule distinctions between imperceptible shades of blue,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s vibrant and diverse Asian American communities have unique issues. For example, winning over Chinese American voters means campaigning in front of multiple political organizations, each with different priorities. Successful candidates in San Francisco have to navigate it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single one of those constituencies, which in most other places would be a constituency, has a diversity of constituencies within those constituencies,” Chiu noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Ace Smith, who worked on campaigns for both Harris and Newsom, said San Francisco is to politics what the Dominican Republic is to baseball — a relatively small island that produces big league stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A huge amount of them make it to the majors and make a huge impact in the majors,” Smith said. “You had better be able to hit everything from the 100-mile-an-hour pitch to the nastiest curveball to the screwball and everything in between.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, currently running for mayor, said there’s no hiding because San Franciscans are so engaged in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot get away with being mediocre in San Francisco,” Peskin said. “You have to be the best of the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Sen. Barbara Boxer, who once represented a slice of San Francisco, along with Marin County, in Congress, noted that while the city is known as being extremely liberal by national standards, the politicians who climb the ladder don’t fit that mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a progressive place, but it’s not progressive crazy,” Boxer told KQED recently. “I think the people who wind up winning are progressive pragmatists, not progressive dreamers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said San Francisco requires more of its politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recognition of competence and cultural competence — one size doesn’t fit all. Recognition of diversity, inclusivity,” he said. “And when you create an inclusive environment, you create an entrepreneurial environment, innovative environment. And inclusivity brings the best and the brightest from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you have that mashup of greatness as well. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians have emerged from other California cities to establish a national profile — notably former President Ronald Reagan and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — but they were launched from Hollywood, not the Los Angeles political scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s political legacy raises the question: How can a relatively small city of 800,000 produce so many politicians with national and international prominence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city requires its elected officials to engage on a daily basis in complex discussions with informed constituents who will raise the most intricate of local issues, no matter if you are walking through the Presidio or attending an event at Delancey Street,” Harris said at the public memorial for Feinstein, who died in September 2023. “And this environment, I do believe, guided Dianne’s style of leadership, even after she reached the heights of national and global power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619.jpg\" alt=\"Woman speaks at lectern in front of building\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as San Francisco Mayor London Breed listens during the funeral for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein at City Hall in San Francisco on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former state Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who many would include on the city’s list of political titans, said the environment that launched Harris, Feinstein and many others can all be traced to one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phil Burton is the father of all of this — period. Literally,” Brown said recently, referring to the late Congressman who came within a vote of becoming House majority leader in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Burton began assembling what became known in San Francisco political circles as “the Burton Machine,” a coalition of religious leaders, unions and community activists who fine-tuned the art of winning elections. His brother, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11465091/democratic-heavyweight-john-burton-exiting-the-political-stage%7Chttps://www.kqed.org/news/11465091/democratic-heavyweight-john-burton-exiting-the-political-stage\">John Burton\u003c/a>, an advocate for civil rights and environmental protections, served in the state Assembly and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Phil Burton expanded the city’s Democratic Party’s membership to include people who were largely ignored until the civil rights era. Burton, Brown said, “noticed that minorities were being left out. And he began to structure the world of politics that literally caused involvement by that collection of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834223\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834223 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg 501w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblyman Leo T. McCarthy, Assemblyman Willie L. Brown, Congressman Phil Burton and Art Agnos in the early 1980s. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were all church and labor. Then we added ‘misfits’ — people who were pushed on the outside,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was the first to invite Chinese American and gay communities to be in the Democratic coalition. Successfully navigating San Francisco’s multicultural communities, with all their complex, nuanced issues and concerns, helps prepare politicians for the national stage, Brown argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that the current vice president can be so effective during the course of dialog in a debate is that’s what she had to do to survive here,” he said.\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was first elected to Congress in 1964. He used his political power to author landmark legislation, including the bill that created the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to protect the California coast — from northern Marin County to southern San Mateo County — from development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1962, Burton urged Brown, then a young defense attorney, to run to represent San Francisco in the state Assembly, a race he lost before being elected two years later. Burton also recruited Pelosi, then a homemaker living in Pacific Heights, to host fundraisers in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg\" alt=\"A row of flagpoles displaying rainbow flags stands in front of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow flags line the plaza in front of the San Francisco City Hall following the rulings brought down by the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Burton died suddenly in 1983, his widow, Sala, replaced him in Congress. Just before she died of cancer in 1987, she encouraged Pelosi to run for the seat. By then, Pelosi had become a prolific Democratic Party fundraiser but told KQED she had never really thought of running for office herself. In a special election to fill the seat, she faced more than a dozen opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a live debate at KQED, one opponent, city Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, said Pelosi was out of touch with average San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can she relate to people like me, a single parent, working mother?”’ Silver asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another opponent, Supervisor Harry Britt, criticized Pelosi during a campaign appearance for using her connections for national races and issues more than local politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would specifically challenge Nancy Pelosi to show one time in the last 20 years when those connections have been used, standing with the people of this community on issues of importance to this community,” Britt said. “One time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once elected, Pelosi leveraged relationships she made in San Francisco business circles, including in the emerging tech community, to become a prolific fundraiser for Democrats across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all paved the way for her to become the first female Speaker of the House. Three years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8XCVjDs_I\">Pelosi told KQED\u003c/a> that in her first race for Congress, she became the focus of all the other candidates once polls showed her leading the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002366\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker emerita of the House, speaks with KQED Forum host Mina Kim at the KQED offices in San Francisco before a live broadcast on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Then I became the target by everybody, and they started saying all these things,” she recalled. “These are people I had in my home, that I had done events for, and all of a sudden, I didn’t know anything about anything, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race toughened up Pelosi for the rigors of Beltway politics in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same could be said for Harris. She was a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office when she briefly dated Brown, then the Assembly speaker, in 1994 until after he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1995. Brown was her political mentor and helped open doors for Harris to the circles that wielded a lot of influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Prozan, who worked with Harris on her early campaigns, said San Francisco politics is like an episode of \u003cem>Survivor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The caliber of people who run against each other have brass knuckles and are street fighters,” Prozan said. “And so when you have the kind of competition for elective office that you have in San Francisco, that prepares you for the next level and the next level and the next level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, who previously served on the Board of Supervisors and in the state Assembly, famously described the city’s politics as a “knife fight in a phone booth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are used to playing very hardball, rough and tumble politics. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s vibrant and diverse Asian American communities have unique issues. For example, winning over Chinese American voters means campaigning in front of multiple political organizations, each with different priorities. Successful candidates in San Francisco have to navigate it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single one of those constituencies, which in most other places would be a constituency, has a diversity of constituencies within those constituencies,” Chiu noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Ace Smith, who worked on campaigns for both Harris and Newsom, said San Francisco is to politics what the Dominican Republic is to baseball — a relatively small island that produces big league stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A huge amount of them make it to the majors and make a huge impact in the majors,” Smith said. “You had better be able to hit everything from the 100-mile-an-hour pitch to the nastiest curveball to the screwball and everything in between.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, currently running for mayor, said there’s no hiding because San Franciscans are so engaged in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot get away with being mediocre in San Francisco,” Peskin said. “You have to be the best of the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Sen. Barbara Boxer, who once represented a slice of San Francisco, along with Marin County, in Congress, noted that while the city is known as being extremely liberal by national standards, the politicians who climb the ladder don’t fit that mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a progressive place, but it’s not progressive crazy,” Boxer told KQED recently. “I think the people who wind up winning are progressive pragmatists, not progressive dreamers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said San Francisco requires more of its politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recognition of competence and cultural competence — one size doesn’t fit all. Recognition of diversity, inclusivity,” he said. “And when you create an inclusive environment, you create an entrepreneurial environment, innovative environment. And inclusivity brings the best and the brightest from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you have that mashup of greatness as well. And I think the politicians have to apply all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It was a scene repeating itself at similar nonprofits across California, which was among the hardest-hit states, suffering around one-third of overall foreclosures nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Jacqueline Marcelos was one of two mortgage counselors at MEDA, an asset development organization that she’d first walked into for help herself: She and her husband were the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ex-real-estate-agent-sentenced-in-sf-mortgage-scheme-targeting-immigrants/\"> victims of mortgage fraud\u003c/a>, one of more than a dozen families that a real estate agent had bilked out of money. As a result, Marcelos had lost her home to foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a counselor at MEDA, Marcelos and her colleagues knew that families seeking their help were likely weeks or months away from losing their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to have around 26 clients per month. It was a lot,” she said. “The banks never did respond on time. They were always asking you for more documentation. They were continuing doing the foreclosure procedures even though you were under review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then one day, Kamala Harris came in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trial by fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s newly elected attorney general, Harris, took office as policymakers were grappling with the worst economic crisis in decades, and Californians were suffering: In 2009, as the subprime mortgage crisis began to peak, more than 3.5 million California households were delinquent on their mortgages; Florida was the next highest state with 3.1 million families behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Harris assumed her role, other state attorneys general were negotiating as a group with the five largest banks over their outsize responsibility for the foreclosure crisis. But California wasn’t initially part of that group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her autobiography, “The Truths We Hold,” Harris recounts instructing her staff on her first day to join those multi-state settlement talks. By the fall, however, she made the risky decision \u003ca href=\"https://documents.latimes.com/harris-letter-housing-investigation/\">to pull out\u003c/a>, convinced that the banks were gunning for a deal that wouldn’t offer homeowners enough money or new protections — and would shield the banks from future probes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decision would prove pivotal in shaping Harris’ political career and public image, becoming a frequent reference point in her campaign narratives — including during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001412/kamala-harris-and-the-biggest-speech-of-her-life-5-takeaways-from-the-dnc\">her speech this summer\u003c/a> at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Attorney General of California, I took on the big banks, delivered $20 billion for middle-class families who faced foreclosure, and helped pass a homeowner bill of rights — one of the first of its kind in the nation,” she told the cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subprime mortgage crisis wasn’t new to Harris: As San Francisco district attorney, her office had taken on several related mortgage fraud cases, including prosecuting the real estate agent who defrauded Marcelos. But now, as top prosecutor of the largest state in the nation, the stakes were significantly higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a presidential election on the horizon, the Obama administration wanted Harris and the other attorneys general to strike a deal, which most of the other states were eager to do. And the banks were breathing down her neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When she walked away and rejected what was put on the table, there was enormous pressure immediately upon her to show the next steps and … there were a lot of people who were leaning on her to change her mind,” said Nathan Barankin, her chief of staff at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/QbycqFzva5Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She felt very, very strongly that the reason why she needed to reject what they had put on the table was because there had not been an adequate investigation into exactly what had happened and, more importantly, what the consequences were of the misbehavior by these big banks,” he said. “Her focus at that time, together with the executive team and so many other folks in the attorney general’s office, was to create and execute that investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This led Harris to a conference room at MEDA on Nov. 22, 2011, alongside Marcelos, and surrounded by San Franciscans who had lost their homes or were in the process of losing them. It was one of several meetings she held around the state with distressed homeowners and their advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>I wanted to be here today to hear these stories,” she told the group, according to a video of the meeting. “There are a lot of people who are debating and talking about it and thinking about it from a perspective that is intellectual or perhaps political or academic. But the reality is, this issue is about each of you at this table and the experiences that you’ve had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “We’re talking about folks who have believed in the American Dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcelos said that at that meeting, the attorney general was “very friendly, very approachable. ” Harris, she said, “understood the pain of all the families that were present and acknowledged [it],” giving them hope for systemic change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A formative settlement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January 2012, Harris demanded to talk directly to one of the key players in the settlement talks: JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. According to her book, the call devolved into a yelling match, with Dimon accusing Harris of “trying to steal from my shareholders,” to which Harris fired back, “Your shareholders? My shareholders are the homeowners of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within two weeks of that call, Harris and the other attorneys general had \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-secures-18-billion-california-commitment\">struck a deal\u003c/a> with the mortgage lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related coverage\" postID=\"news_12000397,news_10966388,news_10346121\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California ultimately secured $20 billion, far exceeding the original offer of $2 to $4 billion, with the bulk aimed at lowering mortgage principals for homeowners. The main goal was to keep people in their homes and reduce the amount they owed so they weren’t paying a mortgage higher than the worth of their home. More than 84,000 families received principal reductions totaling $9.2 billion,\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/mortgage_settlement/04-report-by-the-numbers.pdf\"> according to a 2013 report\u003c/a> by the state-appointed monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many Californians still lost their homes after the settlement, noted Ira Rheingold, the executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. According to the same state monitor’s report, another $9.2 billion of the settlement went toward lowering the amount people owed on mortgages, which resulted in short sales. In those cases, the homeowners avoided foreclosure and were able to walk away without debt or bad credit — but they still lost their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, Rheingold praised Harris’ work, saying the settlement came out of “the failure of the federal government to take appropriate action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think she did the best she could under those circumstances for California homeowners,” he said. ”The only place where principal reduction was being offered to consumers was through the AG settlement. It wasn’t nearly enough, but that was the one place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rheingold said Harris’ involvement ensured two other crucial provisions of the settlement. First, it included reforms to lending operations that “set the stage for later rules and regulations around the mortgage servicing industry.” Second, Harris forced the banks to allow California to appoint its own monitor to ensure compliance with the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That monitor was Katie Porter, a consumer protection attorney who is now a Southern California congresswoman. Porter noted that the settlement itself was hundreds of pages long and incredibly complicated. Her role, as Harris laid out when she called to offer Porter the job, was partly to ensure that the people who needed help could actually navigate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t want these to be hollow promises,” Porter said. “She didn’t view her job as the press conference announcing the settlement. She viewed her job as actually getting the banks to stop doing illegal things and start helping the families that got hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter said she’s proud of what the settlement meant for tens of thousands of Californians who were able to get out from underwater mortgages. But she agrees it didn’t include something many would have liked to see: criminal accountability for the bank executives and others who took advantage of consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that a lot of these mortgage executives made a lot of money and walked away even as families and homeowners struggled,” Porter said. “And for me, what that illustrates is sort of a larger problem about corporate accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Harris’ mortgage strike team did prosecute dozens of people for fraud and other mortgage-related crimes when she was attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Porter and Marcelos, from MEDA, highlighted Harris’ next move after negotiating the settlement: successfully pushing state lawmakers to approve the Homeowners Bill of Rights, which codified into law many of the settlement’s rules and reforms that would have otherwise expired after a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No settlement is perfect,” said Porter. But, she added, “If you ask yourself, did this settlement force banks to change illegal unlawful practices that they had been committing for a decade? The answer is yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcelos agreed, noting that while many of those homeowners Harris met with in November 2011 at MEDA had already lost their homes after the Homeowner Bill of Rights passed, she was repeatedly able to invoke the law to banks, preventing her new clients from losing their homes to foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not ‘someone else’s problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Porter said that Harris’ handling of the mortgage crisis illustrates who she is as a politician and leader as she seeks the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The important thing in this moment for people who are asking themselves, ‘What do we know about Kamala Harris and how is she going to lead and govern?’ is that she wasn’t someone who said, ‘This is someone else’s problem. Let’s let the federal government solve this. Or sooner or later, Congress will get around to this.’ This is somebody who went and tried a different avenue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barankin, her former chief of staff, argues there is a throughline in Harris’ public service: Her insistence on doing the research, sitting down with those impacted and basing a resolution on those real-life conversations. He notes her successful cases as attorney general \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-obtains-11-billion-judgment-against-predatory\">prosecuting a for-profit college \u003c/a>that was preying on low income Californians; and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-criminal-charges-against-senior\">going after a website\u003c/a> that was being used to prostitute and traffic young women. One of those young women \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=backpage+DNC+speech&rlz=1C5GCCM_en___US1096&oq=backp&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgAEEUYJxg7MggIABBFGCcYOzIOCAEQRRgnGDsYgAQYigUyBggCEEUYQDIGCAMQRRg5Mg0IBBAAGIMBGLEDGIAEMgYIBRBFGDwyBggGEEUYPDIGCAcQRRg80gEIMjU0MGowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3097828a,vid:yV_de6j_JVY,st:0\">spoke on the vice president’s behalf \u003c/a>at the Democratic convention this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not enough for her to just look at a spreadsheet of mortgages,” Barankin said. “She wanted to go to those neighborhoods. She wanted to meet the homeowners who had lost their homes. She wanted to meet their neighbors. She wanted to see the communities that had been impacted by this misconduct by the banks.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to have around 26 clients per month. It was a lot,” she said. “The banks never did respond on time. They were always asking you for more documentation. They were continuing doing the foreclosure procedures even though you were under review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then one day, Kamala Harris came in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trial by fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s newly elected attorney general, Harris, took office as policymakers were grappling with the worst economic crisis in decades, and Californians were suffering: In 2009, as the subprime mortgage crisis began to peak, more than 3.5 million California households were delinquent on their mortgages; Florida was the next highest state with 3.1 million families behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Harris assumed her role, other state attorneys general were negotiating as a group with the five largest banks over their outsize responsibility for the foreclosure crisis. But California wasn’t initially part of that group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her autobiography, “The Truths We Hold,” Harris recounts instructing her staff on her first day to join those multi-state settlement talks. By the fall, however, she made the risky decision \u003ca href=\"https://documents.latimes.com/harris-letter-housing-investigation/\">to pull out\u003c/a>, convinced that the banks were gunning for a deal that wouldn’t offer homeowners enough money or new protections — and would shield the banks from future probes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decision would prove pivotal in shaping Harris’ political career and public image, becoming a frequent reference point in her campaign narratives — including during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001412/kamala-harris-and-the-biggest-speech-of-her-life-5-takeaways-from-the-dnc\">her speech this summer\u003c/a> at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Attorney General of California, I took on the big banks, delivered $20 billion for middle-class families who faced foreclosure, and helped pass a homeowner bill of rights — one of the first of its kind in the nation,” she told the cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subprime mortgage crisis wasn’t new to Harris: As San Francisco district attorney, her office had taken on several related mortgage fraud cases, including prosecuting the real estate agent who defrauded Marcelos. But now, as top prosecutor of the largest state in the nation, the stakes were significantly higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a presidential election on the horizon, the Obama administration wanted Harris and the other attorneys general to strike a deal, which most of the other states were eager to do. And the banks were breathing down her neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When she walked away and rejected what was put on the table, there was enormous pressure immediately upon her to show the next steps and … there were a lot of people who were leaning on her to change her mind,” said Nathan Barankin, her chief of staff at the time.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QbycqFzva5Q'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QbycqFzva5Q'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“She felt very, very strongly that the reason why she needed to reject what they had put on the table was because there had not been an adequate investigation into exactly what had happened and, more importantly, what the consequences were of the misbehavior by these big banks,” he said. “Her focus at that time, together with the executive team and so many other folks in the attorney general’s office, was to create and execute that investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This led Harris to a conference room at MEDA on Nov. 22, 2011, alongside Marcelos, and surrounded by San Franciscans who had lost their homes or were in the process of losing them. It was one of several meetings she held around the state with distressed homeowners and their advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>I wanted to be here today to hear these stories,” she told the group, according to a video of the meeting. “There are a lot of people who are debating and talking about it and thinking about it from a perspective that is intellectual or perhaps political or academic. 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According to the same state monitor’s report, another $9.2 billion of the settlement went toward lowering the amount people owed on mortgages, which resulted in short sales. In those cases, the homeowners avoided foreclosure and were able to walk away without debt or bad credit — but they still lost their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, Rheingold praised Harris’ work, saying the settlement came out of “the failure of the federal government to take appropriate action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think she did the best she could under those circumstances for California homeowners,” he said. ”The only place where principal reduction was being offered to consumers was through the AG settlement. It wasn’t nearly enough, but that was the one place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rheingold said Harris’ involvement ensured two other crucial provisions of the settlement. First, it included reforms to lending operations that “set the stage for later rules and regulations around the mortgage servicing industry.” Second, Harris forced the banks to allow California to appoint its own monitor to ensure compliance with the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That monitor was Katie Porter, a consumer protection attorney who is now a Southern California congresswoman. Porter noted that the settlement itself was hundreds of pages long and incredibly complicated. Her role, as Harris laid out when she called to offer Porter the job, was partly to ensure that the people who needed help could actually navigate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t want these to be hollow promises,” Porter said. “She didn’t view her job as the press conference announcing the settlement. 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But she agrees it didn’t include something many would have liked to see: criminal accountability for the bank executives and others who took advantage of consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that a lot of these mortgage executives made a lot of money and walked away even as families and homeowners struggled,” Porter said. “And for me, what that illustrates is sort of a larger problem about corporate accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Harris’ mortgage strike team did prosecute dozens of people for fraud and other mortgage-related crimes when she was attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Porter and Marcelos, from MEDA, highlighted Harris’ next move after negotiating the settlement: successfully pushing state lawmakers to approve the Homeowners Bill of Rights, which codified into law many of the settlement’s rules and reforms that would have otherwise expired after a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No settlement is perfect,” said Porter. But, she added, “If you ask yourself, did this settlement force banks to change illegal unlawful practices that they had been committing for a decade? The answer is yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcelos agreed, noting that while many of those homeowners Harris met with in November 2011 at MEDA had already lost their homes after the Homeowner Bill of Rights passed, she was repeatedly able to invoke the law to banks, preventing her new clients from losing their homes to foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not ‘someone else’s problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Porter said that Harris’ handling of the mortgage crisis illustrates who she is as a politician and leader as she seeks the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The important thing in this moment for people who are asking themselves, ‘What do we know about Kamala Harris and how is she going to lead and govern?’ is that she wasn’t someone who said, ‘This is someone else’s problem. Let’s let the federal government solve this. 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