Harris returns to her roots and childhood haunts to make her final pitch
Source: USA Today
Published 8:35 pm. ET Oct. 30, 2024 | Updated 10:42 a.m. ET Oct. 31, 2024
MADISON, Wisconsin – Vice President Kamala Harris went back to a familiar place in the final stretch of her presidential campaign.
As she runs on preserving personal freedoms and protecting democracy, she made her pitch on Wednesday evening a few miles from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her progressive parents participated in various civil rights causes in the late 60s. She spoke at the nearly 10,000-seat Alliant Energy Center here, to a majority-female crowd.
As president, Harris pledged that she would seek common ground and common-sense solutions to problems.“I am not looking to score political points. I am looking to make progress," she said in her speech. Harris has often talked about spending part of her childhood (from age 3 to 5) in a 2-bedroom home overlooking Lake Mendota. The home also happens to be in a pivotal swing state.
Her father, Donald Harris, a Jamaican-American economics professor, publicly supported Black students in 1969 as they sought the creation of a Black Studies department. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian-American, worked as a cancer researcher at the university.
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