Committee assignments
While in the Senate, Harris was a member of the following committees:[148]
Latest News: Kamala Harris Concedes 2024 Presidential Election
Throughout the 107 days of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the White House, polling projected a close race between the Democrat and her Republican challenger Donald Trump. By the morning of November 6, the day after election day, Americans delivered a decisive win to Trump. Harris congratulated the president-elect during a phone call and delivered her concession speech later in the day.
“While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign,” she said before continuing, “the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.”
The 60-year-old reiterated her support for reproductive rights, the reduction of gun violence, and basic tenets of democracy—all key issues during her condensed campaign after President Joe Biden suddenly ended his reelection bid this July. A month later, Harris made history as the first Black woman and first Asian American to lead a major party’s ticket after accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
As she wrapped up her nearly 11-minute speech at Howard University in Washington D.C., Harris returned to one of her familiar phrases. “On the campaign, I would often say: When we fight, we win. But here’s the thing, here’s the thing, sometimes the fight takes awhile. That doesn’t mean we won’t win,” she said. “The important thing is don’t ever give up... don’t ever stop trying to make the world a better place.”
As of November 7, Harris earned 226 electoral college votes to Trump’s 295. Race results are still pending in Arizona and Nevada, though the president-elect leads in both battleground states and surpassed the 270-vote threshold needed to win.
Kamala Harris has served as U.S. vice president since January 2021 and is the first Black woman and first Asian American to lead a major party’s presidential ticket. A lawyer by trade, Harris rose through the California legal system and emerged as state attorney general in 2010. She became just the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, where she served for four years beginning in January 2017. Harris resigned just before assuming the vice presidency within Joe Biden’s administration. She is the first woman, first Black person, and first Asian American to serve in the role. After Biden pulled out of their 2024 reelection bid in late July, Harris became the clear frontrunner and accepted the Democratic nomination a month later. She lost November’s general election to president-elect Donald Trump.
FULL NAME: Kamala Devi HarrisBORN: October 20, 1964BIRTHPLACE: Oakland, CaliforniaSPOUSE: Doug Emhoff (2014-present)CHILDREN: Cole and EllaASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Libra
Presidential Campaign
On January 21, 2019, during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day interview on Good Morning America, Harris announced she was running for president in 2020. One of the top Democratic candidates, the California senator joined a field that already included Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a bid to push President Donald Trump from the White House after one term.
One week after her GMA announcement, Harris formally kicked off her campaign before an estimated 20,000 supporters at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California. She remained near the top of the Democratic polls over the following weeks, withstanding the brouhaha that ensued when she admitted to smoking marijuana in a February interview and another when an animal rights activist confronted her onstage at a political event in June.
Harris stood out as one of the top performers of the first Democratic primary debate in late June, garnering headlines for taking Joe Biden to task over his history of opposing federal busing for school integration. During the second debate the following month, she found herself a target of attacks, with Biden and the rest criticizing her healthcare plan and aspects of her record as California attorney general.
Her support in the polls slipping by the fall of 2019, Harris sought to thrust herself back into the top tier by calling for the impeachment of Trump over his dealings with Ukraine and a focus on women’s access to reproductive health care. Meanwhile, her campaign staff reportedly bickered over strategy and the chain of command, the dysfunction noted in a resignation letter from the state operations director that became public via The New York Times.
In early December 2019, Harris announced she was ending her once-promising presidential campaign. But months later, she had another chance to make it on the Democratic ticket.
Early life and career
Attorney General of California (2011–2017)
Harris was elected Attorney General of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history.[56] She took office on January 3, 2011, and was reelected in 2014.[57] She served until resigning on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the United States Senate.
In 2010, Harris announced her candidacy for attorney general and was endorsed by prominent California Democrats, including U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.[58] She won the Democratic primary and narrowly defeated Republican nominee Steve Cooley in the general election.[59] Her tenure was marked by significant efforts in consumer protection, criminal justice reform, and privacy rights.
In 2014, Harris was reelected, defeating Republican nominee Ronald Gold with 58% of the vote.[57] During her second term, she expanded her focus on consumer protection, securing major settlements against corporations like Quest Diagnostics,[60] JPMorgan Chase,[61] and Corinthian Colleges,[62][63] recovering billions for California consumers. She spearheaded the creation of the Homeowner Bill of Rights to combat aggressive foreclosure practices during the housing crisis, recording multiple nine-figure settlements against mortgage servicers.[64][65] Harris also worked on privacy rights. She collaborated with major tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook to ensure that mobile apps disclosed their data-sharing practices.[66][67] She created the Privacy Enforcement and Protection Unit, focusing on cyber privacy and data breaches.[67] California secured settlements with companies like Comcast and Houzz for privacy violations.[68][69]
Harris was instrumental in advancing criminal justice reform. She launched the Division of Recidivism Reduction and Re-Entry and implemented the Back on Track LA program, which provided educational and job training opportunities for nonviolent offenders.[70][71] Despite her focus on reform, Harris faced criticism for defending the state's position in cases involving wrongful convictions[72] and for her office's stance on prison labor.[73][74] She continued to advocate for progressive reforms, including banning the gay panic defense in California courts[75][76] and opposing Proposition 8, the state's same-sex marriage ban.[77][78][79]
Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
Doug Emhoff and Kamala Harris, seen here at the Capital Pride Parade in June 2021, have been married since 2014.
Harris married lawyer Doug Emhoff in Santa Barbara, California, on August 22, 2014. The couple initially met on a blind date a year prior. Emhoff became the first second gentleman in U.S. history after Harris took office as vice president in January 2021.
Harris is the stepmother of Emhoff’s two children, Ella and Cole, who affectionately call her “Momala.” Harris told Elle in 2019: “They are brilliant, talented, funny kids who have grown to be remarkable adults. I was already hooked on Doug, but I believe it was Cole and Ella who reeled me in.”
Cole, born in 1994 and named after saxophonist John Coltrane, is an actor and production assistant who has worked on movies like Minari (2020) and Father of the Bride (2022). Ella—born in 1999 and similarly named after a musician, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald—is a model and fashion designer.
Harris’ net worth is estimated around $8 million as of November 2024, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Much of her wealth stems from income earned by her husband, Doug Emhoff. Forbes reported Harris earned a salary of $235,000 as vice president in 2023.
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Pemilihan presiden 2020
Harris telah dianggap sebagai calon teratas untuk nominasi Demokrat 2020 untuk presiden.[240] Pada Juni 2018, dia mengatakan "tidak menagkal kemungkinan itu".[241] Pada Juli 2018, diumumkan bahwa dia akan menerbitkan memoar, itu adalah tanda kemungkinannya untuk mencalonkan diri sebagai presiden.[242] Pada 21 Januari 2019, Harris secara resmi mengumumkan pencalonannya sebagai presiden Amerika Serikat dalam pemilihan presiden Amerika Serikat 2020.[243] Dalam 24 jam pertama setelah pengumuman pencalonannya, dia memecahkan rekor yang dibuat oleh Bernie Sanders pada 2016 untuk sumbangan terbanyak yang dikumpulkan pada hari setelah pengumuman. Lebih dari 20.000 orang menghadiri acara peluncuran kampanye resminya di kota kelahirannya di Oakland, California, pada 27 Januari 2020, menurut perkiraan polisi.[244]
Selama debat presiden pertama dari Partai Demokrat pada Juni 2019, Harris menegor mantan wakil presiden Joe Biden karena pernyataan "menyakitkan" yang dia buat, dimana Biden berbicara dengan hormat tentang para senator yang menentang upaya integrasi pada 1970-an dan bekerja dengan mereka untuk menentang Bus desegregasi.[245] Dukungan Harris naik antara enam dan sembilan poin dalam jajak pendapat setelah debat itu.[246] Dalam debat kedua di bulan Agustus, Harris dikonfrontasi oleh Biden dan anggota Kongres Tulsi Gabbard atas catatannya sebagai Jaksa Agung.[247] San Jose Mercury News menilai bahwa beberapa tuduhan Gabbard dan Biden ada benarnya, seperti memblokir tes DNA untuk narapidana dengan hukuman mati. Segera setelah itu, dukungan untuknya jatuh dalam jajak pendapat setelah debat itu.[248][249] Selama beberapa bulan berikutnya, jumlah jajak pendapatnya turun ke angka satu digit.[250] Pada saat liberal semakin khawatir tentang ekses sistem peradilan pidana, Harris menghadapi kritik dari para reformis untuk kebijakan yang dia kejar saat dia menjadi jaksa agung California. Misalnya, pada 2014, dia memutuskan untuk membela hukuman mati California di pengadilan.[251]
Sebelum dan selama kampanye kepresidenannya, sebuah organisasi online informal yang menggunakan hashtag #KHive dibentuk untuk mendukung pencalonannya dan membelanya dari serangan rasis dan seksis.[252][252][253][254] Menurut Daily Dot, Joy Reid pertama kali menggunakan istilah tersebut dalam tweetnya pada Agustus 2017 yang mengatakan "@DrJasonJohnson @ZerlinaMaxwell dan saya mengadakan pertemuan dan memutuskannua bawah itu disebut K-Hive."[255]
Pada 3 Desember 2019, Harris menarik diri dari pencalonan Partai Demokrat 2020, dengan alasan kekurangan dana.[256] Pada Maret 2020, Harris mendukung Joe Biden sebagai presiden.[257]
Vice presidency (2021–present)
Harris was sworn in as vice president on 11:40 a.m. on January 20, 2021, by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.[185] She is the United States' first woman vice president, first African-American vice president, and first Asian-American vice president.[186][187][188][189] Harris is the third person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to become president or vice president.[d]
Her first act as vice president was to swear in three new senators: Alex Padilla (her successor in the Senate) and Georgia senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.[191]
When Harris took office the 117th Congress's Senate was divided 50–50 between Republicans and Democrats;[192] this meant that she was often called upon to exercise her power to cast tie-breaking votes as president of the Senate. Harris cast her first two tie-breaking votes on February 5. In February and March, Harris's tie-breaking votes were required to pass the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 stimulus package Biden proposed, since no Senate Republicans voted for it.[193][194] On July 20, Harris broke Mike Pence's record for tie-breaking votes in the first year of a vice presidency[195] when she cast the seventh tie-breaking vote in her first six months.[196] She cast 13 tie-breaking votes during her first year in office, the most tie-breaking votes in a single year in U.S. history, surpassing John Adams, who cast 12 in 1790.[196][197] On December 5, 2023, Harris broke the record for the most tie-breaking votes cast by a vice president, casting her 32nd vote, exceeding John C. Calhoun, who cast 31 votes during his nearly eight years in office.[196][198] On November 19, 2021, Harris served as acting president from 10:10 to 11:35 am EST while Biden underwent a colonoscopy.[199] She was the first woman, and the third person overall, to assume the powers and duties of the presidency as acting president of the United States.[200][201][202]
As early as December 2021, Harris was identified as playing a pivotal role in the Biden administration owing to her tie-breaking vote in the evenly divided Senate as well as her being the presumed front-runner in 2024 if Biden did not seek reelection.[203]
On March 24, 2021, Biden assigned Harris to work with Mexico and Northern Triangle nations (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) to stem irregular migration to the Mexico–United States border and address the root causes of migration.[204][205] The Root Causes Strategy (RCS) was the product of this effort.[206] Multiple news organizations at the time described Harris as a "border czar",[207][208][209] though Harris rejected the title and never actually held it.[210][211][212][213][214][excessive citations] Republicans and other critics began using the term "border czar" to tie Harris to the Mexico–United States border crisis, including in a July 2024 House resolution, despite her having no authority over the border itself.[215][216][217][218][219][excessive citations]
Harris conducted her first international trip as vice president in June 2021, visiting Guatemala and Mexico in an attempt to address the root causes of an increase in migration from Central America to the United States.[220] During her visit, in a joint press conference with Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei, Harris issued an appeal to potential migrants: "I want to be clear to folks in the region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come."[221] Her work in Central America led to creation of:
Harris met with French president Emmanuel Macron in November 2021 to strengthen ties after the contentious cancellation of a submarine program.[225] Another meeting was held in November 2022 during Macron's visit to the U.S., resulting in an agreement to strengthen U.S.–France space cooperation across civil, commercial, and national security sectors.[226]
In April 2021, Harris said she was the last person in the room before Biden decided to remove all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, adding that Biden had "an extraordinary amount of courage" and "make[s] decisions based on what he truly believes ... is the right thing to do."[227] National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that Biden "insists she be in every core decision-making meeting. She weighs in during those meetings, often providing unique perspectives."[224] Harris assumed a "key diplomatic role" in the Biden administration, particularly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, after which she was dispatched to Germany and Poland to rally support for arming Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia.[228]
In April 2023, Harris visited Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland with South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol and agreed to work to strengthen the space alliance between the U.S. and South Korea. "We renew our commitment to strengthen our cooperation in the next frontier of our expanding alliance, and of course that is space," Harris said at a joint news conference with Yoon.[229]
In November 2023, Harris pledged that the Biden administration would place no conditions on U.S. aid to Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza.[230] In March 2024, she criticized Israel's actions during the Israel–Hamas war, saying, "Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks...This will get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in."[231]
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