Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign
The 2020 presidential campaign of Kamala Harris, a United States senator from California from January 2017 to 2021, officially began on January 21, 2019, with an announcement on Good Morning America. Harris had widely been considered a "high profile" candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries since 2016.
Harris at the California Democrats State Convention in 2019
Harris in Iowa on August 10, 2019
Harris visits King Elementary School in Des Moines, Iowa, on October 7, 2019.
A Shirley Chisholm button, whose typography Harris paid tribute to in her campaign
Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, she was previously attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021.
Official portrait, 2021
Harris's childhood home on Bancroft Way in Berkeley
Harris with California representative Nancy Pelosi in 2004
Harris's official Attorney General portrait