Kamala Devi Harris is a 54-year-old American senator from California, of Indian and
African descent, and candidate for President of the United States in 2020. She is the second
African-American woman (and the first Indian-American) in the Senate and first Indian and
African (Jamaican) woman to have been California’s Attorney-General.
Where did she grow up?
Ms. Harris was born in Oakland, California, to two Ph.D students at the University of California, Berkeley — Shyamala Gopalan from Chennai, who was studying nutrition and endocrinology and eventually became a breast cancer researcher, and Donald Harris from Jamaica, who was studying economics and went on to become a professor at Stanford. They divorced when Harris was seven.
Where does she stand?
Ms. Harris became San Francisco’s District Attorney, and in 2011, California’s Attorney-General. Ms. Harris’s contradictory stances as a public prosecutor have drawn criticism. She has been criticised for her hardline positions on crime. Most notably, while Ms. Harris is personally against the death penalty — in 2004 she did not seek the death penalty for a man who had killed a police officer — she defended the death penalty’s presence on the statute book in California in 2014, when she was Attorney-General.
What is in store?
It is hard to tell at the moment how Kamala Ms. Harris will fare in the 2020 race. Harris has to first win the Democratic (a party in US) nomination. A Politico/Morning Consult poll conducted on January 25-27, before Mr. Booker announced his candidacy, ranked Ms. Harris as the third favourite candidate of Democratic voters, below former Vice-President Joe Biden and Independent Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders.
Where did she grow up?
Ms. Harris was born in Oakland, California, to two Ph.D students at the University of California, Berkeley — Shyamala Gopalan from Chennai, who was studying nutrition and endocrinology and eventually became a breast cancer researcher, and Donald Harris from Jamaica, who was studying economics and went on to become a professor at Stanford. They divorced when Harris was seven.
Where does she stand?
Ms. Harris became San Francisco’s District Attorney, and in 2011, California’s Attorney-General. Ms. Harris’s contradictory stances as a public prosecutor have drawn criticism. She has been criticised for her hardline positions on crime. Most notably, while Ms. Harris is personally against the death penalty — in 2004 she did not seek the death penalty for a man who had killed a police officer — she defended the death penalty’s presence on the statute book in California in 2014, when she was Attorney-General.
It is hard to tell at the moment how Kamala Ms. Harris will fare in the 2020 race. Harris has to first win the Democratic (a party in US) nomination. A Politico/Morning Consult poll conducted on January 25-27, before Mr. Booker announced his candidacy, ranked Ms. Harris as the third favourite candidate of Democratic voters, below former Vice-President Joe Biden and Independent Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders.
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