Harris 2024 campaign senior adviser Ian Sams discusses the upcoming CBS News Vice Presidential Debate on 'The Story.'

Ms Harris's early career focused largely on domestic issues and the state of California, but she has become more involved in foreign policy since she was elected to the US Senate. As vice-president, she has met 150 world leaders and visited 21 countries.

Harris’ policy proposals overlap with many that President Joe Biden has pursued, particularly on abortion, guns, voting rights, health care and labor unions. But she’s made her own promises on housing, price gouging and the Supreme Court — and is rolling out more.

Hurricane Helene’s deadly devastation has scrambled the presidential candidates’ campaign plans, with Kamala Harris returning early from a campaign visit to Las Vegas to attend briefings and Donald Trump heading to Georgia to see the storm's impact.

Voters have signaled that they want to know more about the vice president. By leaning on her background as a prosecutor, this ad aims to fill in those gaps and assuage any worries.

The aftermath of Hurricane Helene interrupted the campaigns of presidential rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Monday after Harris cut short a campaign trip to fly back to Washington and Trump visited a storm-hit city in the battleground state of Georgia.

Prosecutors said that Russell Frank Valleau, 61, had hurled racial invective at both the mailwoman and the presidential candidate

Former President Donald J. Trump is in Georgia after the storm walloped swaths of the South. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with FEMA officials. Their running mates are preparing for Tuesday’s debate.

Harris' team is considering keeping Biden Cabinet officials if she wins and Democrats lose the Senate

Joe Biden plans to visit areas hard hit by Hurricane Helene as both presidential candidates alter their campaign schedules to respond to the deadly storm.

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to taunt former President Donald Trump into participating in another debate, saying Sunday in Las Vegas, "I'm all in."