Photos: Kamala Harris

State Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, shown at the California Democratic convention in May, is running for the U.S. Senate seat of Barbara Boxer, who is retiring.

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Sept. 29, 2015 6 PM PT

California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris speaks during a general session at the state Democratic convention in Los Angeles last year.

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Kamala Harris with husband Douglas Emhoff on the red carpet at the Broad Museum’s gala in September.

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Kamala Harris stands outside the Berkeley home in which the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica grew up.

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California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris walks with Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell to a March news conference at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic. They were announcing a program focusing on reducing recidivism.

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Kamala Harris speaks to supporters at the Millennium Biltmore in L.A. after claiming a narrow but historic victory in the attorney general race in 2010. “I pledge and make a pledge to work hard every day to make sure the law of this state is on the side of the people of this state,” she said.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)