Electoral history of Kamala Harris

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Kamala Harris, the 49th vice president of the United States (2021–2025), is a member of the Democratic Party, one of two major parties in the United States. She has run for public office seven times. Harris served as the 27th district attorney of San Francisco (2004–2011), the 32nd attorney general of California (2011–2017), and as a United States senator from California (2017–2021). In 2003, Harris began her political career by challenging Terence Hallinan, the incumbent district attorney of San Francisco, and defeating him in a runoff election. In 2007, she won a second term unopposed. In 2010, she won a highly competitive Democratic primary for the party's nomination in the 2010 California Attorney General election. She defeated Republican nominee Steve Cooley in the general election. She was reelected in 2014 by defeating challenger Ronald Gold. Harris was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, but withdrew her candidacy on December 3, 2019, citing a lack of...

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