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As San Francisco district attorney in 2004 she infuriated police by declining to seek the death penalty for a gang member who had gunned down an officer. In 2014, she outraged progressives as state attorney general by appealing against a judge's ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional.
In 2015, she did not support efforts to ensure incidents of police deadly force in California were independently investigated, or that all officers should wear body cameras.
Ms Harris has more recently supported legalising marijuana at the national level - something Mr Biden opposes. But critics point out her San Francisco office oversaw over 1,900 cannabis convictions.
How Kamala Harris could help - or hurt - Joe Biden
Where did it go wrong for Kamala Harris?
Section divider: Health
Ms Harris' shifting opinion on this issue damaged her presidential campaign. She was one of the first top Democrats to join Senator Bernie Sanders' 2017 Medicare for All bill to provide government-run medical insurance for every American.
But after professing support for eliminating private health insurance companies, she swiftly backtracked.
Ms Harris opposes fracking and has called for federal legal action against the fossil fuel industry.
In her presidential campaign, she outlined a $10tn climate plan for net-zero emissions by 2045
ring her White House bid, Ms Harris promised to use executive action to enact stricter gun control if she became president.
Like most Democrats, she supported more regulation of gun manufacturers, mandatory background checks, tightening loopholes and a ban on assault weapons.
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Kamala Harris' childhood home reacts to Biden pick
She also said she was open to the idea of going even further and supporting a "mandatory buyback", compelling owners of assault weapons to forfeit those guns.
After her selection as running mate, the National Rifle Association said Ms Harris backed "extreme gun control agendas".
Ms Harris also proposed providing all workers with six months paid family leave for personal or medical issues, including those related to domestic violence.
It was a far more generous policy than left-wing Democratic contenders Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who backed a three-month paid leave bill.
Ms Harris also suggested during her campaign that large companies should be required to be "equal pay certified" to close the gender pay gap, or face fines.
Section divider: Immigration
Like all of the other Democratic 2020 contenders, Ms Harris - the child of immigrants herself - pledged to offer a path to citizenship to the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US.
And like most of the other candidates, she supported decriminalising border crossings by undocumented immigrants and providing taxpayer-funded healthcare for those crossing the US border without papers.
In a 2018 Senate hearing, Ms Harris outraged conservatives by drawing parallels between the Ku Klux Klan and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within the US Department of Homeland Security.
Now That I have listed how she feela on some issue its time to talk about each on line by line when I have time.
In 2015, she did not support efforts to ensure incidents of police deadly force in California were independently investigated, or that all officers should wear body cameras.
Ms Harris has more recently supported legalising marijuana at the national level - something Mr Biden opposes. But critics point out her San Francisco office oversaw over 1,900 cannabis convictions.
How Kamala Harris could help - or hurt - Joe Biden
Where did it go wrong for Kamala Harris?
Section divider: Health
Ms Harris' shifting opinion on this issue damaged her presidential campaign. She was one of the first top Democrats to join Senator Bernie Sanders' 2017 Medicare for All bill to provide government-run medical insurance for every American.
But after professing support for eliminating private health insurance companies, she swiftly backtracked.
Ms Harris opposes fracking and has called for federal legal action against the fossil fuel industry.
In her presidential campaign, she outlined a $10tn climate plan for net-zero emissions by 2045
ring her White House bid, Ms Harris promised to use executive action to enact stricter gun control if she became president.
Like most Democrats, she supported more regulation of gun manufacturers, mandatory background checks, tightening loopholes and a ban on assault weapons.
1:35
Kamala Harris' childhood home reacts to Biden pick
She also said she was open to the idea of going even further and supporting a "mandatory buyback", compelling owners of assault weapons to forfeit those guns.
After her selection as running mate, the National Rifle Association said Ms Harris backed "extreme gun control agendas".
Ms Harris also proposed providing all workers with six months paid family leave for personal or medical issues, including those related to domestic violence.
It was a far more generous policy than left-wing Democratic contenders Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who backed a three-month paid leave bill.
Ms Harris also suggested during her campaign that large companies should be required to be "equal pay certified" to close the gender pay gap, or face fines.
Section divider: Immigration
Like all of the other Democratic 2020 contenders, Ms Harris - the child of immigrants herself - pledged to offer a path to citizenship to the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US.
And like most of the other candidates, she supported decriminalising border crossings by undocumented immigrants and providing taxpayer-funded healthcare for those crossing the US border without papers.
In a 2018 Senate hearing, Ms Harris outraged conservatives by drawing parallels between the Ku Klux Klan and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within the US Department of Homeland Security.
Now That I have listed how she feela on some issue its time to talk about each on line by line when I have time.
