A senator from California, Kamala Harris was a democratic candidate who drops out of the presidential race of the United States in the 2020 Elections. Born Kamala Devi Harris, she was the first Indian American to serve as a senator of the United States.
With her advocacy of Medicare for all, tax cut, and debt-free college, she targeted President Donald Trump and his administration for the domestic and international policies and has also criticized racism, homophobia, and sexism in the country.
A great controversy arose in early 2019 when CNN host Chris Cuomo suggested she should prove she was born in the USA.
Kamala Harris Brief Wiki
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Date Of Birth: 20 October 1964 |
Nationality: American |
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Birth Place: Oakland, California |
Ethnicity: Mixed (Jamaican, Indian) |
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Age: 56-Year-Old |
Height: 1.57 m |
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Education: UC Hastings College of the Law/ Howard University/ Westmount High School |
Net Worth: $6 million with husband Douglas Emhoff |
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Occupation: Senator |
Partner(s): Douglas Emhoff (m. 2014 to present) |
Drops Out From 2020 Presidential Race
California senator Kamala Harris is no longer a presidential candidate. She confirmed it on the 3rd of December, 2018, with a tweet:
To my supporters, it is with deep regret—but also with deep gratitude—that I am suspending my campaign today. But I want to be clear with you: I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about. Justice for the People. All the people.
She listed the lack of financial resources as a reason for suspending the presidential race and stated:
I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. And as the campaign has gone on, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete. In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do.
Although Kamala has dropped out of the presidential race, she qualifies to appear in the Democratic debate on 19 December 2019.
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Kamala's Previous Stance On 2020 Presidential Elections
Kamala Harris had previously kicked off her presidential campaign in her hometown of Oakland with a promise to deliver on a series of progressive initiatives, also brand as new populism. In regards to her motivation for running for president, she had stated:
I love my country…fight for an America where the economy works for working people.
Harris' platforms included middle-class tax cut (LIFT act) which gave a $3,000 refundable tax credit to individuals making $50,000 or less, and a $6,000 credit to couples making $100,000 or less, reduction of cash bail, election security, racial disparity in maternal mortality, criminal justice reform and the opioid crisis as a public health emergency alongside medicare for all, tax cut and debt-free college.
Regarding immigration, Kamala Harris had expressed her desire to reexamine and overhaul the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). She supported the Obama administration's 'Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)' which is a program which works to protect young people who enter into the United States as illegal immigrants. She called Trump's border wall a 'medieval vanity project.'
While she was still a candidate, some of her stands on various issues were:
- Climate Change:
In early 2019, Harris signed on to the Green New Deal resolution, which aims to transition the United States to a 100% clean and renewable energy nation in 10 years.
She is a supporter of a tax on carbon. She said she would be open to allow states to decide whether they use nuclear energy.
- Abortion:
Kamala Harris supports the right to an abortion and voted against a bill in the Senate that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
- Paid Leave:
Kamala Harris' plan on paid leaves includes providing new parents along with caretakers with up to six months of paid time off work.
- LGBTQ Rights:
Kamala Harris is a supporter of legalized same-sex marriage.
- Education:
Harris supports the expansion of early childhood education programs and the implementation of national universal pre-kindergarten.
She put forth a plan in March 2019 to raise teacher pay across the country. The plan would cost $300 billion over a decade!
- Guns:
Kamala Harris is a supporter of banning assault weapons and also banning the sale of high-capacity magazines.
- Criminal Justice Reform:
Kamala Harris co-sponsored the 2018 Marijuana Justice Act, which would end the federal prohibition on marijuana although she opposed the legalization of recreational marijuana before reversing in 2018.
She supports a suspension of the death penalty under federal law, calling executions "immoral, discriminatory, ineffective, and gross misuse of taxpayer dollars."
- Trade:
Harris opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
She is also against Trump's trade war with China and his tariffs on certain imports from the EU, Canada, and Mexico. She has also accused China of being involved in "unfair industrial policies and outright theft of American intellectual property."
- Foreign Policy:
Harris is a supporter of the Israeli government's close ties to the US. She called the bond between the two nations "unbreakable."
A supporter of a "political solution" to the war in Afghanistan, she wants to end US military involvement in the country.
- Taxes:
Kamala Harris criticized the GOP tax cuts of 2017 as a "middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%."
- Housing:
Harris proposed providing up to 4 million black families whose neighborhoods have historically been redlined, or discriminated against, with up to $25,000 to help them buy a home.
Kamala Harris' presidential campaign launch in Oakland drew a larger crowd than Barack Obama when he announced his run for the presidency in 2007.
Married Life Details With Husband
Since 2014, Kamala Harris is married to Douglas Emhoff, who is a lawyer by profession. He is currently a litigator and partner at DLA Piper Law Firm, who describes himself on his official Twitter account as 'a Dad, @kamalaharris hubby/stan, lawyer, wannabe golfer….'
Douglas also loves to play fantasy football. He had a team named Nirvana, named after the 90s grunge band.
From celebrating their anniversary to a new year vacation, Kamala and her better-half Douglas have been pretty much excelling in their marital relationship of five years.
Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff celebrated New Year on 1 January 2019 (©: Instagram/Kamala Harris)
Kamala met with her husband on a blind date set up by PR consultant Chrisette Hudlin, one of the close friends of the senators. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, they were engaged on 27 March 2014 and had a courthouse wedding four months later as Kamala Harris had said she did not believe in long engagements.
Before Kamala, Douglas was married to his ex-wife Kerstin, with whom he shares two children. His son Cole is a graduate of Colorado College and his daughter Ella a student at Parsons School of Design.
Kamala Harris Net Worth And Fundraiser
Kamala Harris' net worth is $4 million which she shares with her husband, Douglas Emhoff. Their assets include homes in Los Angeles, Washington D.C, and San Francisco, jointly worth an estimated $5.8 million before debt.
Harris bought the condo in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco for $300,000, which is now worth an estimated $900,000. Retirement accounts worth around $1.4 million also exist. Along with this, two capital accounts related to law firms where Douglas worded are worth around a million dollars.
Kamala worked as a deputy district attorney from 1990 to 1998 in Oakland, California. She rose to the ranks to become a district attorney in 2004, based on the reputation she built for herself as a tough attorney prosecuting cases of gang violence, sexual abuse, and drug trafficking. She was narrowly elected the attorney general of California in 2010 (winning by a margin of less than 1 percent). Harris co-authored a book with Joan O'C. Hamilton in 2009, called Smart on Crime, a book considered by many a model for dealing with criminal recidivism.
Kamala raised $1.5 million from 38,000 online donors in the 24 hours after she announced her presidential bid. Harris' campaign raised $23.8 million in the first and second quarters of 2019.
Details On Bio, Parents, Education
Kamala Harris (full name, Kamala Devi Harris) was born in Oakland, California on 20 October 1964, to a Jamaican father and Indian mother. Her father, an economist, taught at Stanford University while her mother was a breast cancer researcher.
Her parents met as graduate students while taking part in the civil rights movements at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a younger sister in the family named Maya, who is a public policy advocate.
She completed her undergraduate from Howard University and graduated from the University of California, Hastings. She started her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.