Election 2024: VP Kamala Harris background [Video]

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – Before Vice President Kamala Harris was at the top of the 2024 Democratic ticket, she had a long history in public service, starting as a prosecutor in California.

Harris began was both District Attorney of San Francisco and then Attorney General of California, breaking barriers in each of those offices, as the first woman, first black American and first Asian American to hold them.

On the campaign trail, she often touts her record as a prosecutor going after transnational criminal organizations trafficking drugs, taking on polluters and large corporations.

Then was elected to serve her state in the U.S. Senate in 2017.

“She has won three elections in our nation’s largest state. That’s pretty impressive in its own right,” said Aaron Mannes, Lecturer and Research Associate at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland School.

Mannes has extensively the American vice presidency and …