President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Indian-origin California Senate candidate Kamala Harris in the California’s historic Democrat-on-Democrat U.S. Senate race.

The president praised Harris as a "lifelong courtroom prosecutor". "Kamala's experience has taught her that if you're going to give everybody a fair shot, you've got to take on the special interests that too often stand in the way of progress," Obama said.

The president said in a statement released by the Harris campaign and Democratic National Committee, that, "Kamala Harris fights for us. That's why I'm so proud to endorse her for United States senator."

"And if you send her to the Senate, she'll be a fearless fighter for the people of California all the people of California every single day."

For Harris’ rival, Orange County congresswoman Loretta Sanchez said that, “I believe that California voters are deeply concerned about the entrenched political establishment which has failed to work for them. Yet, it has been clear for some time that the same political establishment would rather have a coronation instead of an election for California's next U.S. Senator."

"California's Senate seat does not belong to the political establishment it belongs to the People of California, and I believe California voters will make their own independent choice for U.S. Senate in November," she said.

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