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Her mother chose Kamala's name as a nod both to her Indian roots - Kamala means "lotus" and is another name for the Hindu goddess Lakshmi - and the empowerment of women.
"A culture that worships goddesses produces strong women," Gopalan the Los Angeles Times in 2004.
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She visited India as a child and was heavily influenced by her grandfather, a high-ranking government official who fought for Indian independence, andgrandmother, an activist who traveled around the countryside teaching impoverished women about birth control.
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While attending law school in San Francisco, Harris lived with her sister, Maya, and helped potty-train Maya's daughter.
"I'm dealing with this brutal stuff, dog-eat-dog in school, and then I would come home and we would all stand by the toilet and wave bye to a piece of shit," Harris recalled in 2018. "It will put this place in perspective."
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Harris would be shunned by police unions for the next decade.
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She was under scrutiny during her tenure as San Francisco district attorney when atechnician cocaine from the D.A.'s crime lab and mishandled evidence. Harris, trying to keep things under wraps, failed to inform defense attorneys. As a result, about a thousand drug-related cases had to be thrown out.
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The race was so tight that on election night, Cooley made a victory speech and the San Francisco Chronicle declared him the winner. Three weeks later, all ballots having been counted, Harris was declared the victor by 0.8 percentage points.
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Harris, however, declined to prosecute the bank or its then-CEO Steve Mnuchin, who now serves as Treasury secretary.
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She's an enthusiastic cook who bookmarks recipes from the New York Times' cooking section and has tried almost all the recipes from Alice Waters's The Art of Simple Food. Her go-to dinner menu is a simple roast chicken.
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She collects Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers, which are her go-to travel shoes.
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include Native Son by Richard Wright, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
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If elected in November, she will be the first woman, first African-American and first Asian-American vice president in the history of the United States.
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Sources: Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, POLITICO, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, POLITICO, NPR, USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, GovTrack, The Guardian, Vox, The Intercept, Smart Voter, Book Riot, SF Gate, Mercury News, The Cut, The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris.
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