Full coverage: Kamala Harris, U.S. senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee
Democratic nominee Joe Biden chose California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. Harris could become the first woman and the first person of color to become vice president.
Data show that Sen. Kamala Harris is at the center of Twitter misinformation far more than the white men who’ve campaigned to be vice president.
Oct. 30, 2020
The Trump and Biden campaigns have repeatedly focused on Indian Americans, a group with growing political and fundraising clout.
Oct. 28, 2020
Abcarian: Critics say Kamala Harris is a giddy lightweight. Her crime? She likes to dance and laugh.
Her optimism speaks to the part of my soul that has been battered by the current president, who is especially vicious to women, particularly women of color.
Oct. 27, 2020
A senator mangled vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ name at a Trump rally. It wasn’t new for her, or for many more who’ve been made to feel “other.”
Oct. 26, 2020
Since Sen. Kamala Harris launched a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the problems of the country she wants to help lead have inched closer to her Brentwood doorstep.
Oct. 25, 2020
California senator has avoided overshadowing her running mate even as Trump and Republicans raise her profile.
Oct. 21, 2020
Sen. David Perdue purposefully butchered his colleague Sen. Kamala Harris’ name at a Trump rally, drawing criticism. They’ve served together since 2017.
Oct. 16, 2020
A staffer for Sen. Kamala Harris and a flight crew member tested positive for the coronavirus, the Biden-Harris campaign said on Thursday.
Oct. 15, 2020
Harris’ exasperated incredulity and fury, inflected with controlled amusement at this administration’s near-cartoonish evil, is exactly the note the Democrats should strike till election day.
Oct. 9, 2020
Campaigning together after the vice presidential debate, Biden and Harris look to appeal to voters in Arizona, an important battleground state in the November election.
Oct. 8, 2020
Kamala Harris out-Midwestern-niced the Midwestern-nice master, Mike Pence. She also set a new standard for Black women ascending the ranks of power.
Oct. 8, 2020
Kamala Harris has her biggest moment of the 2020 campaign at the vice presidential debate with Mike Pence.
Oct. 8, 2020
The two avoided a repeat of the Trump-Biden demolition derby, but still hit hard and often
Oct. 7, 2020
Kamala Harris and Mike Pence met in Utah for the only 2020 vice presidential debate. We analyzed the debate, round by round.
Oct. 7, 2020
Fact-checking the vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence.
Oct. 7, 2020
The vice presidential matchup has never been very consequential, but 2020 is a strange year.
Oct. 7, 2020
I want to believe Kamala Harris will mop the floor with Mike Pence at Wednesday’s vice presidential debate. But acting like a prosecutor won’t work.
Oct. 6, 2020
Before his debate with Kamala Harris, Mike Pence rejects plans for plexiglass barriers added after President Trump and many other Republicans were diagnosed with the coronavirus.
Oct. 6, 2020
Debate planners add precautions for the Kamala Harris-Mike Pence matchup as White House staff and Republican officials test positive.
Oct. 5, 2020
Democratic nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released their 2019 tax returns as an explosive report shed light on President Trump’s income taxes.
Sept. 29, 2020
More Americans than ever consider themselves multiracial – including Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential candidate for this November’s election. But the multiracial experience in America is still misunderstood. We spoke with 11 people who shared their experiences and perspectives on being multiracial in America today.
Sept. 15, 2020
Trump’s record of cozying up to anti-vaccine advocates dates back more than a decade.
Sept. 8, 2020
Sen. Kamala Harris popped into Brandy and Monica’s highly anticipated Verzuz battle Monday, joining a slew of celebrity viewers such as Michelle Obama.
Sept. 1, 2020
Black grievances put Harris on the ticket; her’s is the face of leadership the country is demanding now.
Aug. 30, 2020
Family members Maya Harris, Meena Harris and Ella Emhoff introduce Kamala Harris as she is nominated for vice president at the DNC.
Aug. 19, 2020
It was just the Tamil word for auntie, two syllables in a speech by Kamala Harris last Thursday that covered her childhood, heritage and political awakening and culminated in her acceptance of the Democratic Party nomination for vice president.
Aug. 24, 2020
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris delivers an advance rebuttal to President Trump’s RNC speech.
Aug. 27, 2020
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris delivers an advance rebuttal to President Trump’s RNC speech.
Aug. 27, 2020
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, in first joint TV interview, minimize differences from the Democratic primary and preview responses to Trump RNC attacks.
Aug. 23, 2020
Kamala Harris appears unfazed by the twin attacks from right and left - that she is a soft-on-crime San Francisco lefty and, apparently at the same time, a “top cop” who furthered anti-poor, anti-Black “tough on crime” policies.
Aug. 23, 2020
Sen. Kamala Harris accepted the nomination as the Democratic nominee for vice president of the U.S. at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19.
Aug. 20, 2020
Maya Rudolph, cast as Sen. Kamala Harris on “Saturday Night Live,” has been among the show’s most exuberant, can-do players — qualities that resonate with Harris’ own.
Aug. 19, 2020
California’s junior U.S. senator, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, accepts the vice presidential nomination, making history on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention.
Aug. 19, 2020
With P.V. Gopalan, an upright civil servant and doting patriarch, Kamala Harris forged one of the defining relationships of her life.
Oct. 25, 2019
The school bus ride was less than three miles from one side of Berkeley to the other, but from 1969 to 1973 it transported Carole Porter to an entirely different world.
June 30, 2019
The war on drugs had erupted, apartheid was raging, Jesse Jackson would soon make the campus a staging ground for his inaugural presidential bid.
March 19, 2019
Kamala Harris’ ascension is not unexpected. She has been a rising Democratic Party star for years.
Aug. 11, 2020
California is also a state of immigrants. And fittingly, Sen. Kamala Harris is the daughter of immigrant parents — a father from Jamaica, a mother from India.
Aug. 11, 2020
Joe Biden held his first event with his Democratic running mate, Kamala Harris, in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday.
Aug. 12, 2020
Family members Maya Harris, Meena Harris and Ella Emhoff introduce Kamala Harris as she is nominated for vice president at the DNC.
Aug. 19, 2020
Ethnic solidarity with Kamala Harris, the daughter of an Indian immigrant, could draw votes and donations for the Democratic ticket.
Aug. 12, 2020
In the running mates’ first joint appearance, both hew toward the party’s center, disappointing the left, but a possible general election plus.
Aug. 12, 2020
Friends say the 55-year-old entertainment lawyer, who attended college and law school in Southern California and lives in L.A.’s Brentwood, would “make an impact” should Biden and Harris win in November.
Aug. 20, 2020
Kamala Harris, long influential in California political circles, is now on the ticket as vice president.
Aug. 12, 2020
Kerry Washington, Julianne Moore, Reese Witherspoon and advocacy groups such as Time’s Up are demanding fair media coverage of Democratic VP pick Kamala Harris.
Aug. 12, 2020
Joe Biden has chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. She could be the first woman and first person of color to be vice president.
Aug. 11, 2020
The appointment promises to be one of the most consequential of his political career, both in California and in regard to any ambitions he may have for White House.
Aug. 11, 2020
California Sen. Kamala Harris addition to the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket is more than just symbolism. She’s unafraid to take on bullies.
Aug. 11, 2020
Joe Biden eligió a la senadora californiana para que lo acompañe en la fórmula presidencial para los comicios de noviembre
Aug. 11, 2020
Barack Obama, Viola Davis, Cher and Rita Moreno are among famous folks celebrating Kamala Harris’ historic selection to be Joe Biden’s running mate.
Aug. 11, 2020
California takes starring role in VP search as Karen Bass ascends and Kamala Harris comes under fire
Joe Biden’s shortlist for vice president includes two prominent Californians — Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Karen Bass — and politicos in the Golden State are divided over the choice.
Aug. 4, 2020
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ debate confrontation over race still echoes a year later as Biden weighs his vice presidential pick.
July 16, 2020
Amid nationwide protests, the race to join Joe Biden on the ticket has shifted in Kamala Harris’ favor. But she still faces big hurdles.
June 3, 2020
Harris pledged to ‘do everything in my power’ to help elect Biden.
March 8, 2020
California Sen. Kamala Harris quit the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday, saying, ‘I can’t fund my own campaign.’
Dec. 3, 2019
Kamala Harris’ work as a prosecutor during California’s lock-’em-up era has made it harder for her to sell her presidential candidacy to wary voters.
Oct. 24, 2019
Police shootings and Black Lives Matter pulled Kamala Harris in opposite directions in 2016, as a black woman and California’s then-attorney general.
Aug. 6, 2019
Kamala Harris offered perhaps her most vehement justification yet for her prosecutorial career on Saturday, saying she sought to reshape a criminal justice system that many minorities consider fundamentally biased against them.
June 8, 2019
When Kamala Harris launched her presidential bid four months ago, the stars all seemed to align.
May 31, 2019
Kamala Harris, who has made her prosecutorial record a centerpiece of her presidential bid, said she now has misgivings about a California law she championed that punished parents of habitually truant schoolchildren.
April 17, 2019
In 1980, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan was elected the nation’s 40th president.
Feb. 28, 2019
When Kamala Harris considered places to launch her White House bid, she had options: Washington, where she serves in the U.S.
Feb. 11, 2019
When Kamala Harris looks back on her first campaign, a run for San Francisco district attorney, she remembers a brutal awakening.
Jan. 21, 2019
In her new book, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” Kamala Harris tells the story of her rise from a young girl growing up in Oakland to her 2016 election as U.S. senator from California.
Jan. 9, 2019
Cory Booker talks frankly about racism as he campaigns, pointing out how the “dark spirit of bigotry” was part of the nation’s founding and urging crowds to speak the truth about prejudice.
March 31, 2019
This is a city of 47 square miles, 800,000 people and millions of deeply held, fiercely fought convictions.
Jan. 25, 2015
Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris, a Howard University alum, is cause for celebration at HBCUs.
Aug. 13, 2020
Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris is the first woman of color on a major presidential ticket. Americans of color have been celebrating, analyzing and critiquing her elevation.
Aug. 12, 2020