A list of firsts for Kamala Harris if she becomes president, nominee

As a woman of color, and the daughter of two immigrants, Harris, 59, has talked about the responsibility to blaze a trail for others who follow. “My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last,’” she said in an interview in 2019. “That’s how I think about those kinds of things.”