In California, she was the first woman — and first Black woman — to serve as the state's top law enforcement official. She is the first Black woman from California to serve in the US Senate, and second from any state, after Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun. Harris is also the first person of Indian descent to appear on a presidential ticket.
And if Biden defeats President Trump in November, Harris would become the first woman in US history to serve as vice president. Harris follows Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, in 1984, and Republican Sarah Palin, in 2008, as only the third woman to be chosen as the running mate on a presidential ticket. Both of those campaigns lost to icons of the opposing parties — Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, respectively.
During the Democratic presidential primary, Harris, who would drop out before the first round of voting, often found herself stuck in between the Democratic Party's progressive wing, led by Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and its moderate establishment, headlined by Biden. The left criticized Harris' record on criminal justice, from her election as district attorney in San Francisco to her time as California's attorney general.
Those concerns were amplified after Harris' spectacular entry into the race in January 2019, when her announcement was greeted by an adoring crowd of 20,000 outdoors in Oakland, California. Her campaign would become the most expansively waged by any Black woman in American political history. Decades after Shirley Chisholm ran for president in 1972, Harris amassed more than $35 million dollars over 11 months, despite the challenges that Black women candidates face raising in money.
AMERICA,,BIDEN IS A SPAWN,OF OBAMA,,DON'T BELIEVE THE CON,,HE WILL TELL YOU THAT HE WOULD WASH YOUR CAR,,IF YOU ELECT HIM,,CAM,MALA,,SAID IT BEST,,WHEN SHE CALLED BIDEN A RACIST, THAT'S THE ONLY TIME SHE TOLD THE TRUTH,,YOUR FAMILY WILL BE IN PARREL, WITH THESE TWO, SHE IS FAKE,
Presidents!
If this woman went for Willie Brown to get ahead in politics, she will let Joe Biden smell her everyday to be Vice President.
Please don’t smell the children Joe!!
Why do liberals always talk about blacks as people who are beneath them, less than them?
Race would never be a problem if it weren't for people like the Dems!
If she is such an inspiring and amazing selection, why didn’t she win the nomination outright?
Oh make this shit stop!!!
dcrocko200 Kamala is Indian (from India) but okay.
Does .JoeBiden only sniff white children, or is he a equal opportunity sniffer
Damn covered it’s in one sentence sexist and racist all in one!
stupid race essentialism, it's not sustainable, it's disgusting and divisive. identity politics is stupid.
Fine. Now we vote economy and taxes. You will raise them and tank the economy
This is comical. The only reason he picked her was to try to get the minority vote. I guess she thinks all of Biden’s accusers are lying & can’t be believed. Trump 2020
This is Biden best speech ever. This is very hopeful for the world.
Yup, fucked were way to the top...great example.
Biden just can't stop talking about color.
Lol are they the same kids who like your leg hair?
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