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Democratic · Former Vice President · California · Spectrum score -40
Former office ·
Kamala Harris is Former Vice President in California. Political positions and ideology score -40 (Left). The MSM story is identity and 2024.
- College
- Howard University, B.A. 1986 · University of California, Hastings, J.D. 1989
- Spouse
- Douglas Emhoff (m. 2014)
- Children
- Two stepchildren — Cole, Ella
- Résumé
- Vice President of the United States · 2021–2025
- U.S. Senator · California · 2017–2021
- Attorney General · California · 2011–2017
- Net worth
- $8.5M
- Salary
- —
- Before office
- $700K
- 2026 raised
- —
- Years in office
- 22
Out of office
Where Kamala stands on the spectrum
Kamala Harris scores -40 on Spectrum’s left–right line (left), left of center on the economy and progressive on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.
Composite -40 · Left · economic -52 · social -44 · authoritarian -18
Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →
Background & record
The MSM story is identity and 2024. The file is a California prosecutor who never had to run statewide as an economic populist — donor geography is Bay Area and Brentwood, not Bakersfield. The household got rich the legal-adjacent way: books, speeches, a spouse’s firm.
Finances
Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.
Net worth
$8.5M
+1114% since taking office
Disclosure midpoint + book/speaking, 2025
DA/AG salary money was ordinary. The vice-presidency and the 2024 ticket produced the book-and-speech stack. Doug Emhoff’s law-firm years are in the household number.
Money in · 2026 cycle
- Raised
- $0
- Cash on hand
- $0
Top industries
- Lawyers / lobbyists
- Hollywood
- Unions
Stock holdings
Index / retirement funds
Book-and-speech household. Doug Emhoff’s law years are in the number. Index funds, not a trading desk.
OGE leftover, 2025 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit
VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$1.0M–$5.0M
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$300K–$1.5M
Sum of ranges $1.3M–$6.5M · midpoint $3.9M
X sentiment
Last 7 days
Odds
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Conflicts
- Emhoff’s entertainment-law clients while she ran point on tech and entertainment policy.
- 2024 campaign’s Silicon Valley and Hollywood haul vs a prosecutor brand.
Issue detail
−100 left pole · +100 right pole
- Economic
- -52
- Social
- -44
- Authoritarian
- -18
- Confidence
- 94
- Taxes & spending-50
Higher taxes on high earners, larger public budget
- Health care-60
Public or single-payer coverage as a right
- Climate & energy-56
Aggressive climate rules and fossil-fuel phase-down
- Business regulation-48
Stronger antitrust, labor, and consumer rules
- Labor & wages-46
Unions, higher minimum wage, worker power
- Immigration-32
A broader legal path, less interior enforcement
- Abortion-80
Legal access, opposed to bans — Made Dobbs the organizing issue of the 2024 campaign.
- Guns-62
Licensing, assault-weapon limits, red-flag laws
- Crime & policing-12
Reform, diversion, less incarceration — Prosecutor background; 2024 campaign ticked toward enforcement.
- Schools & speech-48
Public-school investment, DEI frameworks
- Defense & alliances-14
Diplomacy-first, smaller overseas footprint
- Civil liberties-28
Privacy, speech, limits on surveillance and bans
Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): -0.33
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Updated August 2026.