Kamala Harris’s home state is California, and for some voters that is a huge turn off. Around 39% of US residents say California is a model that they don’t want other states to follow.
California is considered as a bastion of the left. And San Francisco, where Harris was the city’s district attorney, is considered to be even more radically left-wing than the rest of the state, known for its liberal attitudes to drugs and gay marriage, for instance.
Harris, like other political candidates, can be framed by their opponents as representing the values or image of their home state, the place where they are registered to vote in the election. In the US, some states have a very specific image, and California and Florida (Donald Trump’s home state) are two of those.
