We're the underdogs in this campaign, but we have the energy to make real change.
Kamala Harris
The Public Record
Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States, having taken office on January 20, 2021. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history. A member of the Democratic Party, Harris previously served as a U.S. Senator from California from 2017 to 2021, where she was known for her work on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration. Before her tenure in the Senate, she served as the Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017, focusing on consumer protection and civil rights.
My best friend in high school was being molested by her stepfather. That experience drove me to become a prosecutor.
We can't have a country and policies that let people fall through the cracks.
We're all in this together, and we're going to keep pushing for the next many days that we have.
We can't have policies that let people fall into poverty. We need to lift them up.
I can speak all afternoon about the person that I am standing on this stage with.
As a prosecutor, I specialized in child sexual assault cases because I wanted to give children a voice.
There's a lot of love in this room for our president. And I think it's for many, many reasons, including few leaders in our nation have done more on so many issues, including to expand access to affordable health care than Joe Biden.
We have to remind people that we are all in this together and build spaces where everyone feels they belong.
The heroes of the civil rights movement, like Thurgood Marshall, inspired me to go to law school.
The heroes of the civil rights movement were lawyers like Thurgood Marshall, who fought for justice in the courtrooms.
Not everyone can take their safety for granted, and that’s something I realized early on.
My mother had every Aretha Franklin album. We would gift her the latest one for Christmas or her birthday.





