Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is standing by her support for busing as an effective tool the federal government should use to help desegregate schools. The 2020 presidential candidate doubled down on her busing comments Sunday in San Francisco after participating in the city’s Pride parade, according to Bloomberg. “I support busing,” she told reporters outside City Hall. “Listen, the schools of America are as segregated, if not more segregated today than when I was in elementary school. And we need to put every effort, including busing, into play to desegregate the schools.”

.@KamalaHarris: “I support busing. Listen, the schools of America are as segregated, if not more segregated, today than when I was in [school]...need to put every effort, including busing, into play to de-segregate the schools...fed govt has a role & a responsibility to step up." pic.twitter.com/a7ujueP0Bu — Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) June 30, 2019

The former California attorney general’s comments came just days after she dominated the second night of the first 2020 presidential debate in Miami, largely due to her friction with former Vice President Joe Biden on the topics of busing and desegregation. Busing is considered a controversial means of racially integrating public schools by transporting children to schools farther away than the ones in their own neighborhood. Harris, the second black woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate, said she was a beneficiary of busing as part of the second class to integrate public schools in her area.

There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school. That little girl was me. #DemDebatepic.twitter.com/XKm2xP1MDH — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 28, 2019