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12 AUGUST 13 & 20, 2020 • METROWEEKLY.COM
theFeed QUINN DOMBROWSKI Counting On Kamala Harris Joe Biden picks LGBTQ ally Kamala Harris for Vice President. By Rhuaridh Marr and John Riley JOE BIDEN HAS PICKED SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CA) to be his running mate and potential vice president, his campaign has announced. Harris, a strong supporter of LGBTQ rights, will become the nation’s first female, Black and Indian American vice president if she and Biden are successful in November’s election against Donald Trump. “You make a lot of important decisions as president. But the first one is who you select to be your Vice President,” Biden wrote in an email to supporters. “I’ve decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence and then to lead this nation starting in January 2021.” In a follow-up tweet, Biden called Harris a “fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants.” “Back when Kamala was Attorney General, she worked closely with Beau,” Biden said, referencing his son. “I watched as they took on the big banks, lifted up working people, and protected women and kids from abuse. I was proud then, and I’m proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign.” While Harris, 55, and Biden, 77, clashed during the presidential campaign — an exchange over busing led to Harris to briefly become the Democratic frontrunner, before bowing out of the race at the end of last year — the California senator has become a vocal supporter of the former Vice President, often drawing strong contrasts between a potential Biden presidency and the current Trump administration. Her selection as vice president finally ends months of speculation over whether Harris would receive the nod from Biden, despite widespread support and most pundits agreeing that Harris would be the likely pick. It also cements the Biden-Harris ticket as one of the most pro-LGBTQ campaigns in recent memory, and possibly ever. Harris, elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016, has a long history of supporting and defending LGBTQ rights, including perhaps most notably during her tenure as California’s attorney general, where she refused to defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, ultimately setting the stage for marriage equality to be legalized nationwide in 2015. A longtime supporter of marriage equality, Harris not only refused to defend Proposition 8 as attorney general, but also spoke out against it prior to its passage in 2008. When Harris was first elected as the District Attorney for San Francisco County, she installed an LGBTQ hate crimes unit to work with victims and to prosecute those who commit bias-mo- AUGUST 13 & 20, 2020 • METROWEEKLY.COM 13
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