Kamala Harris - report

Vice president of the United States since 2021 (born 1964)

Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the attorney general (AG) of California from 2011 to 2017 and as a U.S. senator representing California from 2017 to 2021.

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Significant news events for Kamala Harris

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Kamala Harris failed to outperform Joe Biden in any state. Donald Trump has secured more than 270 electoral votes, defeating Harris in 2024 US presidential election. Trump secured his first battleground state, holding North Carolina and Georgia.
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Taylor Swift has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the United States. The pop superstar took to her Instagram page following the presidential debate to throw her support behind Harris. Comes days after her friend Brittany Mahomes endorsed Donald Trump.
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Vice President Harris repeated several familiar hoaxes about Trump during Tuesday night’s debate. Harris claimed that Donald Trump “wants to be a dictator on day one according to himself” This is another hoax, based on something Trump said in jest. The media has lied repeatedly about the death of Officer Brian Sicknick.
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Kamala Harris is officially the first Black and South Asian woman to lead a major-party ticket. If elected, she would become the first female U.S. president. Harris has raised a record-breaking half a billion dollars. She is the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father.
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Kamala Harris raised $200 million in the first week of her campaign. Harris is scheduled to formally accept her party's nomination on August 22. Thousands of protesters have descended on Chicago.
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Kamala Harris is the first Black woman and Asian American to top a major party ticket. Walz will be a good surrogate for Harris across the upper Midwest. He has a background representing rural communities and enacting progressive priorities.
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Arizona GOP congressional candidate Abe Hamadeh says Vice President Kamala Harris was never designated as the border czar. Source close to the Biden family has told the New York Post that Barack Obama is very upset. While serving as district attorney of San Francisco, Harris supported sanctuary city policies.
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Kamala Harris is trailing former President Trump by 11 points among likely voters in a new poll. The results match up even worse than Vice President Biden, who trailed by 10 points in the same poll.
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Kamala Harris has been accused of being part of a 'cover-up' for Joe Biden's health problems. Donald Trump and his allies are accusing Harris of being "complicit" in the cover-up. New York Times columnists and writers don't believe Harris is the most electable or exciting option to sit atop the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket.
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Vice President Harris raised $81 million in the first 24 hours since President Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed her. The one-day haul easily tops the nearly $53 million former President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee announced that they brought in nearly two months ago through their online digital fundraising platform.
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The push to dump the nation’s first black vice president was posted just after President Joe Biden announced he would not run in the 2024 election. The NYT's push is also very risky for the Democrats’ disparate coalition.
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Kamala Harris is the first woman, Black person or person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. She was elected to the US Senate in 2016, replacing outgoing Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. Several rising Democratic stars have been floated as Biden alternatives.