Joe Biden ended months of speculation last night when he announced Kamala Harris will be his running mate in this years US presidential election.
Regardless of who wins in November, the decision has already made history Harris is the first Black woman to compete on a major partys presidential ticket in the US.
I have the great honor to announce that Ive picked @KamalaHarris a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the countrys finest public servants as my running mate.
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2020","slug":"us-presidential-election-2020","links":{"relativeLink":"news/us-presidential-election-2020","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.in/news/us-presidential-election-2020","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.in/news/us-presidential-election-2020"},"url":"https://action.news/archive/in/topic/us-presidential-election-2020"}],"isLiveblogLive":null,"isLiveblog":false,"cetUnit":"buzz_body","bodyAds":["\r\n\r\n","\r\n\r\n","\r\n\r\n"],"adCount":0},"isCollectionEmbed":false}">I have the great honor to announce that Ive picked @KamalaHarris a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the countrys finest public servants as my running mate.
Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 11, 2020
And theres one other, slightly crass thing that makes it potentially even more significant. If he wins, Biden would be 78 when he is inaugurated in January, the oldest man to ever assume the presidency, so the deputy could well find herself being promoted to chief.
A woman has still never served as president or vice president in the United States.
Just two women have even been nominated as running mates on major party tickets: Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Republican Sarah Palin in 2008. Their parties both lost in the elections of those years.
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But who is Kamala Harris and what does she stand for?
.@JoeBiden can unify the American people because he's 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.
.@JoeBiden can unify the American people because he's spent his life fighting for us. And as president, he'll build an America that lives up to our ideals.
Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 11, 2020
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.
The basics
Harris is a 55-year-old first-term senator with a background in law enforcement, having served as California attorney general and district attorney in San Francisco.
Her mother was an Indian immigrant and her father was a Jamaican immigrant and she has described herself as a proud American whose African American and Indian heritage are of equal weight in terms of who I am.
Future vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris with her younger sister, Maya, and mother, Shyamala, outside their apartment on Milvia Street in Berkeley, 1970. pic.twitter.com/8JKCq53HWL
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John McMurtrie (@McMurtrieSF) August 11, 2020
Harris won her first election in 2003 when she became San Franciscos district attorney. In the role, she created a reentry programme for low-level drug offenders and cracked down on student truancy.
She was elected Californias attorney general in 2010, the first woman and the first Black person to hold the job, and focused on issues including the foreclosure crisis .
The presidential bid
Theres no escaping the fact that vice-president would be something of a consolation prize for Harris, who ran her own campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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After being elected to the Senate in 2016, she quickly gained attention for her assertive questioning of Trump administration officials during congressional hearings.
She launched her campaign in early 2019 with the slogan Kamala Harris For the People, a reference to her courtroom work.
Harris was one of the highest-profile contenders in a crowded Democratic primary and attracted 20,000 people to her first campaign rally in Oakland.
In one memorable moment last year, Harris tripped up Attorney General William Barr when she repeatedly pressed him whether President Trump or other White House officials had ever pressured him to investigate anyone.
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At the time, Trump was accused of trying to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with Barr in order to investigate Bidens son Hunter over unfounded allegations of corruption .
But the early promise of Harriss campaign eventually faded. Her law enforcement background prompted scepticism from some progressives, and she struggled to land on a consistent message that resonated with voters.
Facing fundraising problems, Harris abruptly withdrew from the race in December 2019, two months before the first votes of the primary were cast.
The policies
As a presidential candidate, Harris proposed a government-run system that would still allow private insurers to offer plans; she also supported a fracking ban. Biden has not embraced either proposal, Reuters reports.
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Harris record as California attorney general and district attorney in San Francisco was heavily scrutinised during the Democratic primary and turned off some liberals and younger Black voters who saw her as out of step on issues of systemic racism in the legal system and police brutality.
She tried to strike a balance on these issues, declaring herself a progressive prosecutor who backs law enforcement reforms.
Harris also declined to defend Californias Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage and was later overturned by the US Supreme Court, PA Media reports.
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