California Democratic Party endorses Harris.
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The Attorney General of California, Kamala Devi Harris, has got the coveted California Democratic Party endorsement for U.S. Senate, which on top of her comfortable lead over rival Rep. Loretta Sanchez, is likely to catapult her into higher office, on Capitol Hill.
Harris, who was born in Oakland, California, is the daughter of an Indian mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris—a breast cancer specialist who emigrated from Chennai, Tamil nadu in 1960—and a Jamaican American father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris.
Harris captured 78.1% of the votes to earn the California state Democrats’ official seal of approval, reported the Los Angeles Times. It’s a prize that provides her with a clear edge in the June 7 primary and, most likely, financial support from the party.
The endorsement came after the two Democratic Senate candidates, running to succeed retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer, made their final pitches to local activists and other elected officials.
Harris asked Democrats to help her deliver a “more perfect union” and Sanchez asked them to trust her experience and record over other candidates’ “talk.”
But Harris prevailed in a landslide, reported the Times. Of the 2,139 ballots cast, 19.3% were for Sanchez and 2.6% voted for no endorsement at all.
Harris, talking to Democrat supporters, described the life-shaping experience of growing up in the Bay Area as the daughter of two civil rights activists. Harris’ speech hewed to the high ideals of the Democratic Party and the “poison” politics consuming the Republican presidential race. She vowed to protect and restore the fundamental rights of all Americans.
“For far too many, liberty and justice for all is a promise we have failed to keep,” Harris said.
Harris relished the victory in a statement late Saturday.
“I’m incredibly honored to have the endorsement of the California Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate race, and I’m so proud of the support our campaign has received from every corner of our state,” she said. “We know there is more that unites us than divides us, and I’m grateful to the Californians who joined together to send that message this weekend.”
Harris graduated from Howard University and University of California, Hastings College of the Law, then worked as a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County, California from 1990 to 1998. She served as Managing Attorney of the Career Criminal Unit in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office from 1998 to 2000 and as Chief of the Community and Neighborhood Division in the office of San Francisco City Attorney from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, she was elected District Attorney of San Francisco, defeating incumbent Terence Hallinan. She was re-elected in 2007 and served from 2004 to 2011, according to Wikipedia.
Harris was elected Attorney General in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. She is the first female, the first African-American, and the first Asian-American attorney general in California.
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