Presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris works to win over voters in her home state of California.
Sen. Kamala Harris often says she doesn't have the name recognition or the funds other candidates used to start their 2020 presidential. But she does have the Rolodex, and she's topping every other candidate in endorsements in what could be one of the most important primary state races this election.
But despite the home state advantage for Harris, a Public Policy Institute of California poll conducted in the beginning of November shows former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren with a strong lead over other candidates at 24% and 23% respectively, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at 17% and Harris trailing behind at 8%.
In a recent ABC News and Washington Post poll, Harris only garnered 2% support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents. "I think it absolutely has to do with her record, especially for people who live here, she has over and over again embraced policies that harm communities of color," said Lara Bazelon, a law professor at the San Francisco School of Law and the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles."No one knows that better than the harmed communities themselves.
Bazelon says Harris hasn't been consistent on requiring officers to wear cameras full time,"... she supported it for the attorney general's office but she wasn't going to mandate it statewide and that was what the bill was going to require. She didn't support the bill, which angered a lot of people."
"Kamala Harris used to be a prosecutor...it makes it difficult for people who have no trust in law enforcement," Mendoza said.
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