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Sen. Harris Biden’s VP
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rival is also targeted to be President in 2024.
Joe Biden’s choice of Harris comes at a
time of racial reckoning in the country, plunging
one of the best-known women in politics
into a contest against President Donald
Trump, who has stoked racial divisions in the
White House and on the campaign trail.
Forty-eight years after Shirley Chisholm
declared “A New Era”, a Black woman is on
the national ticket. The late Chisholm ran for
president in 1972. No Black woman followed
her until Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun
32 years later.
Biden welcomed Harris to his team saying
“of all the contenders qualified to be vice
president, I need someone alongside me who
is smart, tough and ready to lead. Kamala is
that person.”
Biden 77, has hinted that he can be a one
term president. Giving his advanced age has
u n d e r s t a n d a b l y
prompted many to assign
huge importance to his
vice-presidential pick
and what it might signal
for the future of the Democratic
Party. Even if
Biden wins and serves
out his term, it’s not
clear that he’d run for a
second one. He has portrayed
himself as a transitional
candidate, describing
his campaign as
Barack Obama
a “bridge” to the next generation of Democratic
leaders, so it’s entirely possible that Harris,
who is 55, will be thought of as the future
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of the party no
matter what.
B i d e n , i f
elected, would
be the oldest
president to hold
t h e o f f i c e ,
whereby, there
could easily be a
s c e n a r i o i n
which his VP
must finish his
term. As he stated
Harris is a
woman that is
qualified to be
president.
Harris, the
daughter of immigrants
from Jamaica
and India,
was the wire-towire
frontrunner
for Biden’s No. 2
job. Her experience
as a battletested
presidential
candidate, her
efforts leading major law enforcement offices
and her political track record of three election
wins in California helped her overcome a
crowded list of contenders.
“I have the great honor to announce that
I’ve picked Harris — a fearless fighter for the
little guy, and one of the country’s finest public
servants — as my running mate,” Biden
wrote in a tweet.
In her own tweet, Harris called joining
Joe Biden welcomed Karmala Harris as his
running as one of the contenders qualified to be
president.
...can lead to Harris
being the first woman
and African/Asian
American president of
Biden’s ticket
an honor.
Biden, she
wrote, “He can
u n i f y t h e
A m e r i c a n
people because
he spent
his life fighting
for us and
as president,
he'll build an
America that
lives up to our
ideals. I'm
honored to
join him as our
party's nominee
for Vice President,
and do
what it takes to
make him our
Commander-in
-Chief.”
Biden “nailed
the decision”
for running
mate in picking
Harris. Former
P r e s i d e n t
Barack Obama
said in a statement
(in which it’s believed he influenced
Bidens’ choice), calling the selection of a vice
presidential nominee “the first important decision
a president makes.” Obama added, Biden
“has underscored his own judgment and character.
Reality shows us that these attributes
are not optional in a president.”
Harris is a child of the Civil Rights Movement;
whose parents were active in the 1960s
marches. She initially launched her
Presidential Campagne for the 2020 Presidential
run but decided to withdraw early in
the campaign. As a former line prosecutor
who got her start in Alameda County — Harris
launched her first political run in 2003, for
San Francisco District Attorney. Harris ultimately
defeated the incumbent after accusing
him of running a dysfunctional office and not
addressing rising crime rates.
While Harris cultivated the Bay Area’s
wealthy and connected, she also campaigned
with an ironing board, passing out leaflets at
transit stops and blocking out her weekends to
appear at clubs and churches in the famously
left-wing city, where politics has been compared
to blood sport. As Harris celebrated her
election to the Senate, Trump’s victory in the
race for president loomed over her victory
speech — and ushered in
the next phase of her
career, which now has
her months away from
potentially moving into
a White House office
alongside Biden, and
possibility beyond to
president in 2024.
Harris was considered
a top-tier presidential
contender when she
launched her campaign
President Donald
last year before more than 22,000 people in
her hometown of Oakland.
The Trump campaign wasted no time
knocking her as “phony Kamala” and casting
Harris as a liberal Trojan horse taking advantage
of an aging candidate on the president’s
Twitter feed shortly after the news became
public. Also, the ad says that Harris attacked
Biden “for racist policies” during her White
House bid while “rushing to the radical left”.
Despite the attacks on her character,
Harris won praise from other contenders for
the vice presidency who did not get selected
by Biden.
“Senator Harris is a tenacious and trailblazing
leader who will make a great partner on
the campaign trail. I am confident that Biden-
Harris will prove to be a winning ticket,” said
Susan Rice, who was Obama’s national security
adviser and was among Harris’ competition
to be Biden’s running mate.
And former President Bill Clinton called
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