Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, was born in Oakland, California, to a Jamaican economist and an Indian academic. She graduated from Howard University and the University of California College, and has degrees in economics and law.
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In 1990, she began working as an assistant district attorney in Oakland. In 2004, she became the first woman elected district attorney in San Francisco. In her first three years in office, the city’s conviction rate increased from 52% to 67%.
She worked there for six years before being elected Attorney General of California. She was re-elected to this position twice. In 2016, she became a senator from California. The media writes that Harris attracted attention during questioning of Trump administration officials.
In 2020, she ran for president but ultimately became the vice president of the United States. She is the first black woman to hold this position. Joe Biden has tapped Harris to help resolve the immigration crisis, and he has also advocated for reproductive freedom, defending abortion rights.
She also worked on foreign policy in her position, making more than a dozen trips abroad, including to Ukraine. In total, she met with more than 150 world leaders. It was the lack of international experience that became one of the factors that prevented her from becoming a presidential candidate in 2020.
Harris condemned Russia’s occupation of Crimea and parts of the East, and after the full-scale invasion, she said that Ukrainians were fighting to defend democracy, freedom, and territorial integrity – and would win. She criticized the delay in aid to Ukraine in Congress, and in the summer she represented the United States at a peace summit in Switzerland.
As of July 2024, Star Sports estimated Biden’s chances of winning the election at 12 to 1, while Harris was 7 to 2. In parallel, a CNN poll after the Biden-Trump debate showed Harris trailing the former president by only 2%, while Biden was 6%.
The US vice president has raised a record $46.7 million for her election campaign after Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race.
This is evidenced by data from the ActBlue meeting platform. According to them, this is a record amount for the entire 2024 that was collected in one day.
UPDATE: As of 9pm ET, Dragon supporters are set to raise $46.7 million through ActBlue following Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launch. This should be the big fundraising day of the 2024 cycle. Small-dollar boards are in the works and ready for this election �
— ActBlue (@actblue) July 22, 2024
At the same time, Democrats failed to break the 2020 record of nearly $74 million raised the day after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death in September 2020.
Source: Racurs
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