Don’t know how to pronounce Kamala Harris’ name? Let these kids show you

How to pronounce Kamala Harris’ name correctly?

She has been in the public eye for a long time. And yet her name still confuses people.

Back in 2016, when she was running for Senate, Harris’ campaign made a video of children pronouncing her name correctly.

“People pronounce my name differently. Let #KidsForKamala show you how it’s done,” she wrote in the original May 2016 tweet.

This is just a short video, less than 20 seconds, but it shows several methods. No to say Harris’s name: it’s not “CAMEL-uh” or “Koo-MAHL-uh” or “CARMEL-uh” but rather “COMMA-la.”

Harris served as San Francisco district attorney and then California attorney general before becoming California’s junior senator in 2017. She served as President Joe Biden’s vice president and replaced Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee this year in President Joe Biden’s run. against former President Donald Trump. Harris’ parents are Donald Harris, born in Jamaica, and her mother is the late Shyamala Gopalan, born in India.

In 2014, she married Doug Emhoff. The couple spent their 10 year wedding anniversary in August in Chicago, where Harris officially Accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for President on August 22. She has two adopted children, Cole and Ella Emhoff.

This article was originally published on TODAY.com