OAKLAND, Calif. — Sen. Kamala Harris of California officially kicked off her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday at an outdoor rally where she warned that the nation and the world were at “an inflection point” in history and called on all Americans to “speak truth about what’s happening” in the Trump era.
Harris, 54, who became the second black woman to serve in the U.S. Senate when she took office in 2017, has joined an increasingly crowded field of Democratic candidates that lacks a front-runner.