{"id":19144,"date":"2020-11-07T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=19144"},"modified":"2020-11-07T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T19:05:41","slug":"kamala-harris-a-historic-run-from-california-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2020\/11\/07\/kamala-harris-a-historic-run-from-california-to-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris: A historic run from California to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris, center, announces the takedown of a California-based drug trafficking organization during a news conference Monday, April 14, 2014, in Fresno, Calif. On the table are bags of crystal methamphetamine that authorities say the organization smuggled in along with cocaine from Mexico. Once in the Central Valley of California, officials say the drugs were distributed across the United States. At the left is King County Sheriff Dave Robinson and to the far right is Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward. (AP Photo\/Scott Smith)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris, left, reacts after conducting the wedding vows of Sandy Stier, center left, and Kris Perry, at City Hall in San Francisco, Friday, June 28, 2013. Stier and Perry, the lead plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban, tied the knot about an hour after a federal appeals court freed same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses for the first time in 4 1\/2 years. (AP Photo\/Marcio Jose Sanchez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left, talks with Sequita Thompson, the grandmother of Stephon Clark, who was shot and killed by Sacramento police on March 18, during a town hall meeting Thursday, April 5, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. Harris spoke about the shooting, where two officers chased Clark, an unarmed black man who was suspected of breaking into cars, into his grandparents’ backyard and opened fire. (AP Photo\/Rich Pedroncelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Senators Corey Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) listen as Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in Washington on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. The committee voted along party lines on Friday to advance Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination to the full Senate, but in a dramatic reversal, Flake said he would not support final confirmation until the FBI investigates accusations of sexual assault leveled against Kavanaugh. (Damon Winter\/The New York Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton escorts Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., center, past media and well wishers as they arrive for a lunch meeting at Sylvia’s Restaurant in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Thursday Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left, meets with civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network, during lunch at Sylvia’s Restaurant in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Thursday Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews, Pool)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In this July 31, 2019, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Biden has chosen Harris as his running mate. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo\/John Locher)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at a rally Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo\/John Locher)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at a rally Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo\/John Locher)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) steps off of a trolly to address a group of her supporters as she arrives at the Blue Jamboree on October 5, 2019 in North Charleston, South Carolina. (Brian Blanco\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., tours an unfinished building at Veterans Village, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo\/John Locher)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From left, Democratic presidential hopefuls New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, Representative for Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, Mayor of South Bend Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, California Senator Kamala Harris, tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang and billionaire-philanthropist Tom Steyer participate in the fifth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia on November 20, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm \/ AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Messages for democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is written on a wall inside of her Oakland campaign office on December 03, 2019 in Oakland, Calif.(Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From left, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, and other Congressional Democrats attend a news conference to unveil policing reform and equal justice legislation on Capitol Hill, Monday, June 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., receive a virtual briefing on COVID-19 from public health experts in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during the Democratic National Convention, as seen on a screen at a drive-in watch party for the convention at Suffolk Downs, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo\/Michael Dwyer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, left, his wife Jill Biden, second from left, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., second from right, and her husband Doug Emhoff, right, wave to supporters after Biden spoke during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, with Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., raise their arms up as fireworks go off in the background during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. Looking on are Jill Biden, far left, and Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff, far right. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A screen displays a video with Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaking during the March on Washington, Friday Aug. 28, 2020, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) prepares to leave after the Florida Memorial University marching band played as she makes a campaign stop on September 10, 2020 in Miami Gardens, Florida. Harris visited the university to participate in a roundtable discussion with African-American Leaders. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., participates in a roundtable discussion at Florida Memorial University during a campaign stop, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo\/Lynne Sladky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., talk as they asses the damage during the Creek Fire at Pine Ridge Elementary, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Auberry, Calif. (AP Photo\/Gary Kazanjian)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., sitting in a barber chair, speaks at Headliners Barbershop in Detroit, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Mike Pence looks at Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as she answers a question during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo\/Morry Gash, Pool)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., stands with her husband Douglas Emhoff during the vice presidential debate with Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rock Kernick, of Hampton, chair of the Hampton Township Democratic Committee, talks to people from behind cardboard cutouts of presidential and vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris outside of the satellite election office and mail-in ballot drop-off location at the North Park Ice Rink in McCandless, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, left, at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Leah Millis\/Pool via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks to the press as she arrives in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 23, 2020. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Supporters of US Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris await her arrival for a drive-in rally at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, on October 31, 2020. (Chandan Khanna\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Converse high-top sneakers of Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., are shown as she speaks at a drive-in early voting event, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo\/Wilfredo Lee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a drive-in get out the vote rally, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Fla. (AP Photo\/Wilfredo Lee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) addresses supporters during a drive-in rally on the eve of the general election on November 2, 2020 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A resident reads a news article about US Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, at her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Nov. 3, 2020. (Arun Sankar\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A temple priest gives holy ashes to residents as they offer prayers for the US Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, at her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on November 3, 2020. (Arun Sankar\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Villagers arrive for breakfast at an eatery next to a billboard featuring U.S. democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris in Thulasendrapuram village, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. For many Indians, the American election is personal. The prospect that vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris \u2014 who has Indian origins \u2014 could occupy the second-highest political office in the U.S. has caught the imagination of millions of ordinary people in the world’s largest democracy. (AP Photo\/Aijaz Rahi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks as US Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, looks on at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware on November 4, 2020. – President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are squaring off for what could be a legal battle for the White House, running neck-and-neck in the electoral vote count, and several battleground states still in play on November 4. (Jim Watson\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Village women make a Kolam, a traditional art work using colored powder, wishing success for U.S. democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris in Thulasendrapuram village, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. The lush green village is the hometown of Harris’ maternal grandfather who migrated from there decades ago. (AP Photo\/Aijaz Rahi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., stands at left. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A placard featuring U.S. democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris is placed on a dressing table below the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the ancestral house of the Vandayar family, where celebrations are planned should the Democratic Party win the presidential elections, in Painganadu a neighboring village of Thulasendrapuram, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. The lush green village of Thulasendrapuram is the hometown of Harris’ maternal grandfather who migrated from here decades ago. (AP Photo\/Aijaz Rahi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grace Gardner, a supporter of Vice President Joe Biden, wears an earring bearing the photo of Biden’s running mate Sen. Kamala Harris as she demonstrates outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes are being counted, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo\/Rebecca Blackwell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People celebrate the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by the historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. (AP Photo\/Noah Berger)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris is embraced by her husband, Douglas Emhoff, after taking the oath of office as state Supreme Court chief justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye looks on at the Crocker Art Museum, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Sacramento, Calif. Harris touted her fight against organized human trafficking after being sworn in to her second four-year term as California’s top law enforcement official. (AP Photo\/Eric Risberg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":19155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,7,152,501,9,4,180,205,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[41],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/Kamala-Harris-11-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19189,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions\/19189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}