Where Does Kamala Harris Stand On The Issues? Here’s Everything You Need To Know.

Kamala Devi Harris has served since 2017 as the junior U.S. senator from California, serving alongside Dianne Feinstein. A member of the Democratic Party, Harris previously served as attorney general of California from 2011 – 2017 and as the district attorney of San Francisco from 2004 – 2011. Harris positions herself as a far-left progressive with appeal to both the “class warfare”/”economic justice” and the intersectionality/identity politics wings of the modern Democratic Party coalition. Nonetheless, Harris’s professional past as a prosecutor has potential to prove problematic in a Democratic Party that is staunchly anti-prosecution, pro-criminal defendant, and anti-“mass incarceration.”

Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian descent, is married to fellow California attorney Douglas Emhoff. Her sister Maya Harris is an MNSBC political analyst, and her father Donald Harris is a Stanford University economics professor. Donald Harris entered the limelight earlier this year when he publicly criticized Kamala Harris’ invocation of her Jamaican heritage in the context of explaining her prior marijuana usage. Harris has a bachelor degree from Howard University and attended law school at the University of California-Hastings.