Kamala Harris (2097)

Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi/ (listen) KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 47th President of the United States from 2029 to 2037. Previously, she was the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2029. She was the first female president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first Asian American president.
A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021, and as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017. Harris became vice president upon inauguration in January 2021 alongside President Joe Biden, having defeated the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence, in the 2020 election.
Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco. She was elected Attorney General of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris served as the junior United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate. As a senator, she advocated for healthcare reform, federal de-scheduling of cannabis, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, and progressive tax reform. She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault.
Harris sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, but withdrew from the race prior to the primaries. Biden selected her as his running mate in August 2020, and their ticket went on to win the general election in November. She assumed office as vice president of the United States on January 20, 2021.
After the 2028 Presidential Election, Harris was sworn in as the first female president of the United States. Her presidency was marked by the Taiwan crisis, and Harris' lenient response is believed to have led to World War III. Domestically, Harris passed several gun laws, upsetting many Republicans, and admitted Puerto Rico as a state. Her actions against right-wing extremism were praised as well, as were her reactions to the 2032 San Francisco bombing. She also presided over the 2032 manned Mars landing. However, her actions to combat poverty were seen as ineffective and insufficient. Historians rank Harris as an under-average president.
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