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US elections now have a Indian touch as Kamala Devi Harris an Indian-origin California senator Kamala Harris was selected by the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, as his Vice-Presidential running mate.
On August 11, Biden announced that Harris would be his vice presidential running mate. An American politician and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from California since 2017 Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee.
If elected she would be the first-ever women to be the vice president of the United States and the first-ever Indian-American and African vice president of the country. This was the first time ever in America when a black woman was selected to compete on a major party’s presidential ticket.
Described as a trailblazer by former US President Barack Obama, Kamala Harris is currently a US senator from California. Harris, 55, has African-Indian roots, as his father is from Jamaica and mother hailed from India.
Harris has speed up her campaign too and in her first election speech she mentioned how her father and mother met during a protest on citizen rights Auckland. She said it is a beautiful story how the two met.
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Taking the stage after Biden, Harris flicked at some of the gender critiques she had faced throughout the Democratic primary, saying she was “mindful of all the ambitious women before me, whose sacrifice, determination and resilience makes my presence here today even possible.” She then launched into an attack on Trump, lambasting him for a lack of leadership on the coronavirus pandemic.
When she announced her own bid for the presidency — on Martin Luther King’s Birthday in 2019 — she pitched herself as a history-making candidate, paying homage to Shirley Chisholm, the New York congresswoman who became the first woman to seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.
Harris was the San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to 2011, and the California attorney general from 2011 to 2017.
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