clashed with him in the first presidential debate of the current race over his opposition to busing to integrate schools in the 1970s. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day.
And that little girl was me,” she said in the June 2019 debate. Biden responded that he did not oppose busing overall, just a federal mandate for it.
However, that exchange did not make for a permanent split between the two. In March, Harris endorsed Biden for the nomination, saying she would do all in her power to assure his election as president.Before being elected to the Senate in 2016, Harris was California’s attorney general and, before that, district attorney.