Former Vice President Kamala Harris made a stop in San Diego on Sunday to support Democratic congressional candidate Marnie von Wilpert.<\/p>\n
Harris is campaigning as a surrogate for Democratic candidates across the country. Sunday\u2019s appearance marked her first campaign stop in her home state of California.<\/p>\n
Harris surprised a crowd of canvassers at Democratic campaign headquarters in Escondido, where she took the stage alongside von Wilpert, who is running for Congress.<\/p>\n
Von Wilpert said she was honored to have Harris at the event and highlighted Harris\u2019 significance as the first woman to serve as vice president of the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m honored. The former vice president is here,\u201d von Wilpert said. \u201cI mean, the first woman vice president in the United States of America and a Californian at that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Von Wilpert also described Harris as an inspiration to women in politics, particularly women of color.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is such an inspiration to so many women in politics, like women who want to get into politics, especially women of color,\u201d von Wilpert said. \u201cLike, I absolutely adore her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Von Wilpert said she was honored to have Harris\u2019 support for her campaign.<\/p>\n
Those attending the event also expressed excitement about seeing the former vice president in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vice President Kamala Harris made a stop in San Diego on Sunday to support Democratic congressional candidate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[37945,400,187478,187479,93390,15222,1525,10428,77564,9394,74653,129665,74,76,75,187480],"class_list":["post-477757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-2026-election","tag-california-politics","tag-campaign-stop","tag-canvassers","tag-congressional-race","tag-democratic-candidate","tag-democratic-party","tag-escondido","tag-former-vice-president","tag-kamala-harris","tag-marnie-von-wilpert","tag-political-campaign","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-women-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}