Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris

10 • | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020 | ELECTION 2020 THE STANDARD THE-STANDARD.ORG Kamala Harris

Democratic vice presidential candidate M. Todd Dearing | Lifestyle Editor | @mtodddearing

Kamala Harris is the vice presidential candidate of Democratic presidential candidate Joesph “Joe” Biden. Harris currently serves as a senator in Calif., and before joining the Biden campaign she was campaigning on her own for president, which started January 2019.

Harris was born and raised in Oakland, Calif. She graduated in 1986 from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics. She later earned her law degree in 1989 from Hastings College.

Harris served eight years as a prosecutor in Alameda County after graduating college, and in 1998 was hired to be the managing attorney for San Francisco District Attorney’s Career Criminal Unit. In 2003 she was elected San Francisco District Attorney and would win re-election in 2007.

In 2010 Harris was elected State Attorney General of California. Harris held the position until 2016 when she was elected to her current position in the senate.

Two major issues for Harris are immigration reform and healthcare.

During her run for president, Harris’ campaign website said, “Kamala will fight to pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people living in our communities and contributing to our economy.

“While she wages that fight, she will immediately reinstate DACA and implement DAPA to protect DREAMers and their parents from deportation.”

Her campaign also made the statement that healthcare in the U.S. currently costs too much. Her proposed plan was the option between public medicare and private insurances.

Harris also wrote a book in which she outlined potential changes to the criminal justice system titled “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.”

For more information on Kamala Harris, visit harris.senate.gov