US vice-president Kamala Harris may be the undisputed frontrunner for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination, but despite being in the public eye for decades her position on some key policy areas is unclear.
Harris was first elected as district attorney of San Francisco in 2003. She later served as attorney-general of California before being elected to the US Senate in 2017. She ran a shortlived presidential campaign of her own before being selected as Joe Biden’s running mate in 2020. Since then she has focused on supporting Biden’s agenda rather than articulating her own.
Here is what we know about where she stands on five key policy issues: