Vice President Kamala Harris visited Sacramento Thursday to meet with Democratic state lawmakers and campaign for a second term in the White House with President Joe Biden.
The brief stop is part of a larger swing through California and the west for Harris. She was in Manhattan Beach Wednesday for a campaign event. She is also scheduled to campaign in Las Vegas on Saturday and promote reproductive rights in San Jose next Monday.
Harris told state lawmakers “it’s really good to be home” and thanked them for their work.
“I know the work that you do, and I know how committed you are, and I have had the pleasure and the joy and good fortune of working with most of you,” she said.
“I, maybe with a bit of bravado, will repeat what I think we all say: So goes California, goes the nation,” she said.
The Vice President also highlighted $33 billion in investments for California from Biden’s infrastructure package and CHIPS Act.
Several protestors called for a ceasefire in Gaza outside the vice president’s meeting with lawmakers at the historic Stanford Mansion.
After the meeting, which was closed to most press, several Democratic lawmakers said Harris applauded their work on issues such as artificial intelligence regulation, reducing gun violence and expanding access to abortion.
“All the great work we do here in California I think really embodies a lot of what the fight is nationally,” said Asm. Buffy Wicks, a Democrat from Oakland. “It’s about a lot of these issues. From my perspective at least, there’s no one better to lead on the national stage than our very own Kamala Harris.”
Senate President pro Tem Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego, said Harris was “clearly glad to be home and in a crowd she knew well and felt very comfortable with.”
After meeting with lawmakers, Harris was scheduled to attend a private campaign event focused on abortion rights hosted by Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis.
The vice president was scheduled to return to her West Coast home in Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.
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