After Vice President Kamala Harris declared her intention to run for president, her supporters began to post emojis of coconuts and trees on social media Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Kamala Harris in 2023.

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You think this meme just fell out of a coconut tree? Vice President Kamala Harris’ abrupt ascension to frontrunner status for the Democratic presidential nomination has opened the floodgates to a ...

It sounds like a bad joke: Vice President Kamala Harris and a coconut tree. But the meme going viral across the internet within days of President Joe Biden announcing he’s dropping out of the ...

In the hours since Joe Biden announced he would be ending his bid for re-election, and then endorsed Kamala Harris as his successor in the 2024 presidential race, social media has been flooded with ...

Brandon Bell / Getty Images In the weeks before President Biden announced he would not be seeking reelection, some Democrats online rallied behind Vice President Kamala Harris to become the party's ...

How did the coconut tree emerge as the emblem of the vice president's most devoted, or at least most-online followers? It's a story more than a year in the making. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks ...

For more on Biden's decision and the now open 2024 race, head to the NPR Network's live updates page. In the weeks before President Biden announced he would not be seeking reelection, some Democrats ...