By Chelsea Janes Chelsea Janes Reporter covering the 2020 presidential campaign Email Bio Follow March 23 at 9:12 PM HOUSTON — Sen. Kamala D. Harris made the first major policy announcement of her campaign Saturday, promising to use federal dollars to boost teachers’ salaries as she spoke to a boisterous crowd at Texas Southern University.
“The greatest measure of a society is how it treats its children,” Harris said. “So I came to Harris County today to unveil, and announce for the first time publicly, an initiative I’m proposing that will be the largest federal investment in teacher salary in American history.” O’Rourke’s candidacy has dominated the campaign news cycle in recent weeks. Accounts of his remarks, often delivered informally from restaurant countertops, have mixed with reports on events by Sen. Bernie Sanders , which have often been attended by the same loyal supporters that supported his run in 2016.
She was to hold another rally Sunday at a historically black school, Morehouse College, in Atlanta. Harris, a graduate of Howard University in the District, has made historically black colleges and universities a focus of her early schedule. “I was a Beto supporter for Senate, not for president,” said Jennifer Giles, 45, a small-business owner and Harris supporter from Flower Mound, Tex., who was at the rally. “Once we see the debates and see these candidates next to each other, I think the stellar candidates will be obvious, and I think experience and gravitas will show.”
On Saturday, her announcement drew praise from the American Federation of Teachers, a group that says it represents nearly 1.7 million teachers nationwide and has long been a political force.
Still won’t be voting for KamalaHarris. Her record as DA and AG in California is disturbing. She’s more flawed as a candidate than HRC.
Ahhh, she had 20K at her kickoff. No one else had that large of a kickoff crowd.
this is a great thread if you need to block Trumpsters and Berniebros at the same time I like that they're both worried about my senator
Kris_Sacrebleu WAPO posting their own articles behind a paywall is not only tone deaf but just really skeezy.
Sanders is drawing anywhere from 5x to 10x her crowd of 2,400, easy. Must be getting close to time for WaPo to do another 16 negative articles in 16 hours on Sanders.
Harris will become WP's favorite because she will forward the interests of large corporations and super wealthy individuals that have completely taken over governance in this country. Many hit pieces on Sanders and Beto to follow.
Kamala Harris should to be indicted
He launch crowd was the largest, too
Fakenews media continues to show biased support for the worst kind of garbage humans on the planet. They really think their audience is that dumb. Smh lol
You democrats are delusional! Wow 🙄
Was she pole dancing? KamalaHarris
Harris's 2400 is about 15% of one of Bernie's 3 rallies this weekend in Harris's state.
Didn’t she have the biggest launch crowd so far...? Did you perhaps miss the point here
LOL nobody wants to vote for mixed race Hillary.
But is she grassroots-funded?
Can't wait for the primary debates to see Dems destroy each other. It will be a race to the bottom. Selling their souls by promising hand-outs and free stuff. Trump gets to mop up whoever survives. 2020 will be a slam dunk if Dem primaries get pulled way left.
The lies you spew are incredible, when they draw crowds like Trump then they can talk. Until then, they have small assemblies of indoctrinated, hate filled people
Kamala has a great shot at winning the Dem nomination. Despite his name recognition, Bernie is polarizing and will be opposed by centrists and Dem establishment. Biden's personality, right-wing record and race/sex will hurt him. Beto has weird hand movements. That leaves Kamala.
When did you cover the crowds for Bernie Sanders?
you can count about 1000 people a crowd, stop lying to your readers you scammers
Mueller report is out and deflects. Mueller report 100% vindicates POTUS that’s your main story for the day (year).
Why don’t Saunders and Kamila go back to DC and work on impeaching Trump?
she not Obama and she a joke, you clowns quit trying to make her look good, you are lying too much.
STOP LYING WE KNOW NOW !!
Nothing else to cover?
She got 2,400 people while sanders got over 15,000 on the same day in kamala’s state yet the Washington post doesnt cover that part
Puhleez
President Trump = vindicated Democrats & FAKE NEWS= exposed American = GREAT AGAIN 🇺🇸
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