Vice President Kamala Harris: A look at her political career

Kamala Harris speaks at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., on July 22, 2024.

Kamala Harris arrives at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., on July 22, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an event honoring National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship teams from the 2023-2024 season, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on July 22, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her two grand nieces order from Tyra Banks at her new shop, Smize Dream Ice Cream on July 19, 2024. Harris made the stop as pressure continues to increase on President Joe Biden to end his presidential campaign.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks before a moderated discussion regarding reproductive health with former Trump administration official Olivia Troye and reproductive rights advocate Amanda Stratton at Air Zoo in Kalamazoo on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris poses for a group picture with the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 9, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at the Prime Osborn Convention Center in Jacksonville, Fla. Harris came to Jacksonville to denounce the state's 6-week abortion ban that takes effect the same day.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on Sunday March 3, 2024 during the 59th anniversary celebration of the Bloody Sunday March.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the High-Level Segment for Heads of State and Government session at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on Dec. 2, 2023.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak greets US Vice President Kamala Harris on the second day of the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 2, 2023 in Bletchley, England. The UK Government are hosting the AI Safety Summit bringing together international governments, leading AI companies, civil society groups and experts in research to consider the risks of AI, especially at the frontier of development, and discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action.

Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden depart after delivering remarks on advancing the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 30, 2023.

Vice President Kamala Harris introduces President Joe Biden during an event about their administration's work to regulate artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House on Oct. 30, 2023 in Washington, DC.

US Vice President Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two before leaving after attending the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta on Sept. 7, 2023.

US Vice President Kamala Harris (4th L), Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (3rd L), Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (2nd L) and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L) attend the 18th East Asia Summit during the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sept. 7, 2023.

US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives for the gala dinner of the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta on Sept. 6, 2023.

A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces gifts a jersey to Vice President Kamala Harris during an event to celebrate the teamÕs 2022 WNBA championship victory at The White House on Aug. 25, 2023.

Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks during the State of the Union address from the House chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington on Feb. 7, 2023.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Logan Eggleston, Volleyball Player at University of Texas at Austin, hold an NCAA trophy together during College Athlete Day at the White House. The achievements of the women and men NCAA championship teams from the 2022-2023 season were celebrated.

Vice President Kamala Harris enters Michie Stadium for the 2023 Graduation and Commissioning Ceremony on the campus of U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday, May 27, 2023.

US Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema (R) gesture after a press conference at the State House in Lusaka on March 31, 2023. - Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on Friday asked the United States to help expedite debt restructuring negotiations with the country's creditors, during a visit by Vice President Kamala Harris.

Vice President Kamala Harris visits the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Harris visited the site of a shooting that claimed 11 lives to pay her respects and later met with the victims' families.

US Vice President Kamala Harris hugs Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering as she makes a surprise visit to the site of a shooting that left seven people dead in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 5, 2022. Robert Crimo, a 21-year-old man who allegedly opened fire on a July 4 parade in a wealthy Chicago suburb while disguised in women's clothing was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder on July 5, prosecutors said. Crimo was arrested on July 4, several hours after the attack on a festive Independence Day crowd.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Polish President Andrzej Duda hold a press conference at Belwelder Palace in Warsaw, Poland, March 10, 2022. Harris is on a three-day trip to Poland and Romania for meetings about the war in Ukraine.

Vice President Kamala Harris greets as she boards her airplane to Washington from the Munich International Airport on Feb. 20, 2022, in Munich, southern Germany, after attending the Munich Security Conference (MSC).

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an infrastructure announcement at AFL-CIO December 16, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks virtually to the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention, from the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 12, 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris inspects an honour guard with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana in Singapore on August 23, 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris takes a photo with supporters after speaking during a vaccine mobilization event at the TCF Center in downtown Detroit on Monday, July 12, 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff join marchers for the Capital Pride Parade on June 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. Capital Pride returned to Washington DC, after being canceled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Vice President Kamala Harris checks out a micro grid exhibit by Prof. Adel Nasiri Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at the UW-Milwaukee University Services and Research Building in Milwaukee, Wis. This is Harris' first trip to Wisconsin as vice president. President Biden, who narrowly won the state in November, was in Milwaukee in February to tape a CNN town hall. MARK HOFFMAN/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL ORG XMIT: MJS2105041407090406 (Via OlyDrop)

Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) take their places before U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks on the guilty verdict against former policeman Derek Chauvin at the White House in Washington, DC on April 20, 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House on March 24, 2021 in Washington. The bust of Frederick Douglass created by artist Isaac Scott Hathaway in 1908, on loan from the Vice President Harris’s alma mater Howard University, displayed prominently alongside the Vice President’s desk.

Vice President Kamala Harris, center, and her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, pose for a picture with healthcare workers at the Washington, DC, VA Center, a veterans hospital, as they delivered baskets of Valentine's cookies on Feb. 13, 2021.

US President Joe Biden and US Vice President Kamala Harris meet with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and others during a meeting about the economy and COVID relief in the Oval Office of the White House February 5, 2021, in Washington, DC.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is sworn in during the 2021 presidential inauguration of Joe Biden at the U.S. Capitol.

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris arrive to the 2021 Presidential Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the U.S. Capitol.

U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff shop in the Downton Holiday Market on November 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris made it point to shop at local shops for small business Saturday.

U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks during an event to President-elect Joe Biden's economic team at the Queen Theater on December 1, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivers remarks.

Vice President- Elect Kamala Harris walks onstage.

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nominee for vice president, speaks at a drive-in rally at Fayetteville State University on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020.

Democratic U.S. Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) arrives at UAW Local 653 on Oct. 25, 2020 in Pontiac, Michigan. Harris is traveling to multiple locations in the metro Detroit area to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., answers questions from the press as she arrives at Burke Lakefront airport during a campaign visit the Cleveland area Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020.

Democratic U.S. Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during an early voting mobilization event at the Central Florida Fairgrounds on October 19, 2020 in Orlando.

U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett via videoconference as she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020 in Washington, DC.

Sen. Kamala Harris speaks on stage during the Vice Presidential debate between Republican nominee Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic nominee Sen. Kamala Harris held at Kingsbury Hall at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Oct. 7, 2020. Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief for USA TODAY, is the moderator.

US Democratic vice presidential nominee and Senator from California, Kamala Harris attends a Community Conversation with African-American Leaders at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens,Florida on September 10, 2020.

Sen. Kamala Harris of California speaks as she accepts the nomination for Vice President of the United States, during the Democratic National Convention at the Wisconsin Center, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020.

Sen. Kamala Harris of California speaks as she accepts the nomination for Vice President of the United States, during the Democratic National Convention at the Wisconsin Center, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), running mate of Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden, attends a coronavirus briefing at a makeshift studio at the Hotel DuPont on Aug. 13, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Harris is the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent to be a presumptive nominee on a presidential ticket by a major party in U.S. history.

From left, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), with husband Douglass Emhoff, greet Dr. Jill Biden after delivering remarks at the Alexis Dupont High School on August 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Harris is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated at the top of the presidential ticket by a major party in U.S. history.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden invites his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) to the stage to deliver remarks at the Alexis Dupont High School on August 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Harris is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated at the top of the presidential ticket by a major party in U.S. history.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-CA, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on June 25, 2020 in Washington, DC.

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris speaks to supporters before a No on K press conference October 29, 2008 in San Francisco. San Francisco ballot measure Proposition K seeks to stop enforcing laws against prostitution.

Kamala Harris, Attorney General of California, with Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, present Rules Committee report, during the Democratic National Convention Sept. 4, 2012 in Charlotte, N.C.

Sen. Kamala Harris walks to the Senate chamber for a series of 6 roll call votes regarding the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Resolution on Capitol Hill, on October 18, 2017 in Washington.

Sen. Kamala Harris speaks during the hearing for Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Sept. 4, 2018 in Washington.