{"id":105274,"date":"2020-08-11T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T20:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=105274"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T20:48:53","slug":"joe-biden-picks-kamala-harris-as-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=105274","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Picks Kamala Harris as Running Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia, PA…The first Black woman to represent California in the United States Senate, Kamala Harris grew up believing in the promise of America and fighting to make sure that promise is fulfilled for all Americans. Kamala\u2019s father immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica to study economics and her mother immigrated from India. Kamala\u2019s mother told her growing up \u201cDon\u2019t sit around and complain about things, do something,\u201d which is what drives Kamala every single day.<\/p>\n

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Kamala started fighting for working families in the Alameda County District Attorney\u2019s Office, where she focused on prosecuting child sexual assault cases. From there, she became the first Black woman elected as San Francisco\u2019s District Attorney. In this position, she started a program to provide first-time drug offenders second chances with the opportunity to earn a high school degree and find a job.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Kamala became the first Black woman to be elected California Attorney General, overseeing the country\u2019s second largest Justice Department, only behind the U.S. Department of Justice. In this capacity, she managed a $735 million budget and oversaw more than 4,800 attorneys and other employees. As California Attorney General, Kamala fought for families and won a $20 billion settlement for California homeowners against big banks that were unfairly foreclosing on homes.<\/p>\n

Kamala worked to protect Obamacare, helped win marriage equality for all, defended California\u2019s landmark climate change law and won a $1.1 billion settlement against a for-profit education company that scammed students and veterans. Kamala also fought for California communities and prosecuted transnational gangs who drove human trafficking, gun smuggling and drug rings.<\/p>\n

Since being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016, Kamala has introduced and co-sponsored legislation to help the middle class, increase the minimum wage to $15, reform cash bail, and defend the legal rights of refugees and immigrants.<\/p>\n

Kamala serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that deals with the nation\u2019s most sensitive national security and international threats. She also serves on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee where she oversees the federal government\u2019s response to natural disasters and emergencies, including the Trump administration\u2019s response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

On the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kamala has held Trump administration officials accountable and was a powerful voice against Trump\u2019s conservative judicial nominations.<\/p>\n

Kamala graduated from Howard University, where she was in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and earned a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. <\/p>\n

Kamala has been married to her husband Doug for the past six years. She is the stepmother of two children, Ella and Cole who are her \u201cendless source of love and pure joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source Joe Biden Campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia, PA…The first Black woman to represent California in the United States Senate, Kamala Harris grew up believing in the promise of America and fighting to make sure that promise is fulfilled for all Americans. Kamala\u2019s father immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica to study economics and her mother immigrated from India. Kamala\u2019s mother told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/harris-2-1536x1024.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}