She has been slammed by the right-wing news media as a far-left politician, a radical creature of affirmative action whom Democrats had positioned to become the country's first D.E.I. president. In her home state of California, however, Vice President Kamala Harris has been viewed as center-left by California standards, an ambitious prosecutor with conventional values shaped as much by the state's tough-on-crime 1990s as by the Bay Area's progressive politics.
She's pretty moderate - more moderate than Newsom, said David Townsend, a Democratic political consultant in Sacramento, referring to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California. And she's been a really successful politician. She has been elected district attorney. She has been elected attorney general. That's a crowd that's usually controlled by Republicans.
The daughter of an Indian cancer researcher and a Jamaican economist who met while pursuing advanced degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, Ms. Harris was born in Oakland. When she was 7, her parents divorced and she and her sister moved to Canada, where she attended high school.
In 1987, she returned to California for law school, earning her degree at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She then stayed in her home state, where she built a career as a prosecutor, first in the Bay Area and then statewide, ascending to increasingly influential offices.
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