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Kamala Harris Selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Running Mate

Perhaps looking to counter the "San Francisco liberal" label that Republicans insist on giving her, VP Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate in the 2024 election, according to multiple sources.

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David Chiu Jumps on Trend With 'Asian American Men for Harris’ Event, Books Ken Jeong and BD Wong

This sudden new trend of specific identifiable demographics doing online meetups for Kamala Harris has SF City Attorney David Chiu co-organizing a "AANHPI Men for Kamala Harris" call, and they’ve lined up stars Ken Jeong and BD Wong to join in.

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Elon Musk Shares Altered Deepfake Video of Kamala Harris, as Silicon Valley Bigwigs Go to War Over 2024 Election

Twitter/X owner Elon Musk’s latest volley in the 2024 presidential campaign is a completely fake doctored video of Kamala Harris, clearly intended to deceive people, as the Trump-Harris election has Silicon Valley’s wealthiest tech bros at each other’s throats.

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Kamala Harris Getting Widely Memed, and That’s Actually a Good Thing For Her Campaign

Internet memelords are going cuckoo for coconut-themed memes and other online gags depicting Kamala Harris in “brat” lime green, as her presidential campaign is ironically benefiting from repurposed memes that were originally used to depict her unflatteringly.

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Never Forget: Donald Trump (and Ivanka) Donated to Kamala Harris's Attorney General Campaign

Over a decade ago, years before Donald Trump imagined he'd be president let alone imagined he could be running against her, he donated $6,000 to Kamala Harris's campaign to become California's attorney general.

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SF Democratic Party Hosting City Hall 'Unity Rally' For Kamala Harris Monday Morning

Less than 24 hours after President Joe Biden officially exited the 2024 presidential campaign, VP Kamala Harris is out of the gates, raising cash, and hoping to unify support from Democrats for her candidacy.

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Monday Morning Headlines: Harris Campaign Rakes in Nearly $50 Million on First Day

The 38th annual AIDS Walk came to Golden Gate Park Sunday; the newly formed Oakland Ballers have already fired their manager; and the Kamala Harris campaign pulled in $49.6 million on Sunday alone.

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VP Kamala Harris Speaks With Deep-Pocketed Silicon Donors, Including Reid Hoffman

President Biden appears to be sticking the course Friday, as he continues his COVID isolation in Delaware, saying that he'll return to the campaign trail next week. But Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled, last minute, to a join a call with some major Democratic donors.

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After Biden’s Debate Train Wreck, Both Newsom and Harris Insist They’re Not Replacing Him

With President Joe Biden giving probably the worst debate performance in modern history Thursday night, the two leading “Break glass in case of emergency” candidates, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom, are both holding firm that they won't step into his spot.

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Day Around the Bay: Kamala Drops an F-Bomb

An SF man with six prior convictions has been arrested for an April murder in Oakland; gas prices in CA could go up 50 cents next year; and VP Kamala Harris dropped a very public F-bomb Monday in a conversation with a comedian.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: Secret Service Agent Removed From VP Harris's Detail

There was a deadly vehicle crash in Pleasanton on Wednesday night; a Secret Service agent on Kamala Harris's detail was displaying "distressing behavior"; and the LAPD arrested 93 student protesters at USC last night.

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VP Kamala Harris Visits Abortion Clinic In Minnesota In Historic First

Vice President Kamala Harris became the first vice president or president ever to visit an abortion clinic on Thursday, stopping in at a Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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VP Kamala Harris Has Now Cast More Tiebreaking Senate Votes Than Any VP In U.S. History

Vice President Kamala Harris broke a record Tuesday that took two previous vice presidents about eight years to break, and she did it only three.

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Feinstein Eulogies By Harris, Schumer, and Pelosi Celebrate Her as Champion For Women

Though interrupted a number of times — as predicted — by loud flyovers by the Blue Angels, the funeral service for Dianne Feinstein outside San Francisco City Hall went off without any other hitches Thursday afternoon.

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Biden Took a Knee For Photo With Warriors; Curry Expresses Thanks for Britney Griner's Return

As noted yesterday, the Golden State Warriors took a trip to D.C. to meet and get a photo op with President Joe Biden on Tuesday, to celebrate their 2022 NBA Championship win — something they did not opt to do for their 2017 and 2018 championship wins while Trump was in office.

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In Cold, Cruel Christmas Eve Stunt, Buses of Migrants End Up at Kamala Harris’s DC Home

On Saturday evening, three busloads of migrants from the southern U.S. border were reportedly bused to Vice President (and former California Senator) Kamala Harris’ home in Washington, DC, reportedly showing up on one of the coldest Christmas Eves on record in just t-shirts.

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Gavin Newsom's Presidential Ambitions On Back Burner, Says He Has 'Sub-Zero Interest' In Running In 2024

There's been plenty of speculation that Gavin Newsom's public sparring with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is setting them up to be rivals for the White House someday. But for now, as Newsom runs for a second term as California's governor, he says he's rooting for Kamala Harris.

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Kamala Has COVID, For Real This Time

Vice President Kamala Harris has, like a slew of D.C. denizens, tested positive for COVID and is isolating. The positive test comes about a month after Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff contracted the virus.

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Former President Barack Obama and VP Kamala Harris Both In Bay Area Thursday

Both Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are scheduled to be in the Bay Area this week for separate events, with Obama set to speak at Stanford Thursday.

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Kamala Harris Does Comedy Central Interview, It Does Not End Well

The vice president appeared on Charlamagne Tha God’s ‘Tha God's Honest Truth’ Friday, and it got to where her spokesperson tried to cut off the interview, not once, but twice.

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Friday Morning Constitutional: Kamala Harris to Briefly Serve as Acting President

President Joe Biden is briefly transferring power to VP Kamala Harris today while he undergoes a colonoscopy, local airport officials say today is actually the biggest Thanksgiving travel day, and the woman behind the programming at the Chase Center speaks about her job.

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CNN Reports on 'Exasperation and Dysfunction' Between Harris and Biden Teams; White House Responds

Kamala Harris's first year as Vice President has apparently not gone particularly smoothly, says CNN — via what they say is intel from three dozen insider sources — and now the White House is trying to downplay the drama.

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Kamala Harris's Team Reportedly Pissed About 'The View' Debacle

Vice President Kamala Harris's Friday interview on The View was disrupted and cut short by a COVID scare that turned out to be based on false-positive test results for two of the show's co-hosts. And now her team is asking a lot of questions.

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Kamala Harris Appearance On 'The View' Disrupted After Two Hosts Test Positive for COVID

Co-host Joy Behar announced that Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin had breakthrough cases, but they would both likely "be fine" because they are both "vaccinated... up the wazoo."

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Biden and Harris Are Headed to California to Campaign Against the Recall

Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to California this week to give a boost to the "No" campaign in the gubernatorial recall, and President Joe Biden is planning to do the same early next week.

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