Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, July 24th.

Today on Forbes, here's how much Kamala Harris is worth.

Forbes originally published an article on Vice President Harris's net worth in May.

Since then, the ground has shifted under the Democratic Party.

On Sunday, President Biden announced that he would suspend his re-election campaign and

endorsed Harris to run in his place. It now appears that she is the presumptive

Democratic nominee for president. Thanks to her decades in government and a wealthy husband, Kamla Harris has built quite a nest egg.

Forbes estimates her net worth, along with second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, at about $8 million, up from $7 million in 2021.

Vice President Harris and her husband own a multi-million dollar home in Los Angeles.

The rest of their assets mostly consist of cash, index funds, bonds, and pensions, which the 59-year-old Harris will soon be able to access.

The second couple's net worth increase comes almost entirely from a jump in the value of that

LA home, and the duo's liquid investments do not appear to have grown significantly, despite

the soaring stock market. Harris was born in Oakland, California in October 1964 to two well-educated immigrants.

Her father, originally from Jamaica, worked as an economics professor at Stanford. Her mother from Southern India. from and after marrying had Kamala and her sister Maya.

In her 2019 memoir, Harris writes,

quote,

we weren't rich in financial terms,

but the values we internalized provided a different kind of wealth.

From an early age, Harris showed an interest in law.

She moved across the country in 1982 to attend the historically black Howard University

and later got a job at the Federal Trade Commission and another as an intern for California Senator Alan Cranston, a Democrat whose seat she would later fill.

Harris graduated in 1986 and returned to the West Coast, earning a law degree from

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