Vice President Kamala Harris has won her home state of California, CBS News projects, easily securing the state's 54 electoral votes.
Vice President Kamala Harris has won her home state of California , CBS News projects, handily securing the state's 54 electoral votes, the most of any state. If elected president, Harris would notch several firsts, becoming the first woman president, and the first Black and South Asian woman to be elected president in U.S. history, capping a a political trajectory that began in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her political career began in 1990 when she was hired as a deputy district attorney for Alameda County. In 1998, Harris became assistant district attorney in San Francisco and in 2003, she was elected as district attorney, beating out her former boss and becoming the first person of color elected as the city's top prosecutor. Harris was elected California's first female, Black and South Asian attorney general in 2010 and won the race for California Senator against former Rep.
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