Kamala Harris

About Kamala Harris

Kamala Devi Harris is an American Democratic politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden.

From 2017 to 2021, Harris served as a U.S. senator representing California. She was the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and the district attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

As attorney general of California, Harris 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. Despite her focus on reform, Harris faced criticism for defending the state's position in cases involving wrongful convictions and for her office's stance on prison labor.

In April 2023, incumbent president Joe Biden announced his reelection campaign, with Harris as his running mate. After the Democratic primaries, the pair became the party's presumptive nominees in the 2024 presidential election. Concerns about Biden's age and health persisted throughout Biden's first term, with renewed scrutiny after his performance in the first presidential debate, on June 27. On July 21, 2024, Biden suspended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris for president. Harris is the first nominee who did not participate in the primaries since Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Harris lost the 2024 United States presidential election to Trump, conceding the next day in a speech at her alma mater, Howard University. She lost the electoral college 226 to 312, and the popular vote 48.3% to 49.8%. Harris's loss was part of a global backlash against incumbent parties in 2024, in part due to the 2021-2023 inflation surge. All 50 states and DC trended rightward compared to the 2020 presidential election. On January 6, 2025, in her role as president of the Senate, Harris oversaw the certification of Trump and Vance as the winners of the election.

Harris is of Afro-Jamaican and Indian descent. As of November 2024, Kamala has amassed 19.7 million followers on Instagram, 9.2 million followers on TikTok and 849 thousand subscribers on her YouTube platform.