I think she rose in the polls, based on the “optics” of her confronting Biden, and the praise the media heaped on her for her “courage”. I think it was based more on the optics than on approval of the issue of busing.
And it warmed some Democrat hearts, that she segwayed(sp?) into the “I was that little girl” campaign, with shirts for sale with her stern facial expression as a little girl.
Perception is everything. So far as I can determine, Oakland, California, would not have been under a court-ordered “diversity” busing order, unlike schools in many of the racially divided South and urban centers like Chicago that had high friction between the racial divisions exacerbated by schools of vastly differing academic standing.
If the young Kamala Harris was “forced” into busing to school, it was to a school within the district in which her parents were then dwelling, and NOT to achieve “racial diversity”.
She is a whole “racial diversity” all by herself. Devil spawn and snarling wolf child.