Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate
Former U.S. Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he has picked Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate.
In a tweet, Biden called Harris “a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants.”
Elected in 2016, Harris, now 55, was the second African American woman in history elected to the U.S. Senate. Before that, she served as attorney general of California.
With Biden’s selection, she becomes the third woman in U.S. history to serve as a vice presidential candidate, following Geraldine Ferraro as the Democratic vice presidential pick in 1984 and Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential pick in 2008.
“Back when Kamala was Attorney General, she worked closely with Beau,” Biden continued in his tweet, referring to his late son who was then the attorney general of Delaware and who died in 2015 from brain cancer. “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.”
In a tweet following Biden’s announcement, Harris hailed the presumptive Democratic nominee as someone who “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,” she added.
Biden and Harris will appear together and speak in Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday, according to the Biden campaign.
The daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, Harris announced her bid for the White House in January 2019. Due to a shortage of funds, she dropped out of the race less than a year later.
In March 2020, Harris, who famously called out Biden over racial issues in a Democratic primary debate, endorsed him. Having spent most of her political career as a prosecutor, the senator rose to national prominence as a leader on both racial equality issues and criminal justice reform.
“She’s been a leader on criminal justice and marriage equality. And she has focused like a laser on the racial disparities as a result of the coronavirus,”
Biden said Tuesday of Harris, who, like himself, is considered a moderate Democrat.
Harris winning the bid for vice presidential candidacy capped a long process of which…
Source: Xinhua
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Excellent choice.
Let us some up the 2020 election briefly.
On the right you have Don the Conman Trump and Mike the moron Pence.
On the left you have a senile pervert that should be in prison for pedophilia named Joe plagiarism Biden and Kamala hops in bed with others to further her political ambitions Harris.
Is it any wonder America is a dying empire on the verge of civil war?
When a nation loses control of its borders, and is politically and morally bankrupt soon that empire dies. America is on life support right now. It is over as a nation. Good Riddance.
My comments and unequivocal position and opinions, relating to the abyss and reasons for, that the United States of America, is catapulting into, have been written on numerous occasions.
The Great Depression – the effects of the 1930’s on the USA – and it must not be forgotten, history tells it clearly, that America, took some 15 years longer, to get over the global catastrophic global disasters, caused by the Great Depression.
America, they have destined – there choice – the course that they are clearly on, and end result will see America, a shadow of it’s once all powerful and mighty global position.
America – 331,000 million of them – it’s YOUR ERROR.
Can Joe and Kamala – put the brakes on the demise of America ?
I have grave reservations or Doubt.
Joe has to defeat, the infamous 45th elected President of the United States – Donald. J. Trump – to move into the White House, and between present time and November, what “vaudeville” theatre presentations there will be on show, coming out of America.
America is a Humanitarian Disaster.
America is a Shambles.
America is paying for it’s ERROR.
Stay Well -ALL.
As an American right now living in Budapest, I can confirm that a woman with an Indian mother and a Jamaican father is not African – American. An African – American shares the commonality of racial discrimination and the history of slavery.
Harris’ father wrote that his family owned over 200 black slaves and and unknown number of white slaves, indentured servants, they imported to a Jamaica plantation from Ireland. The Harris Family were one of Jamaica’s major slaveholders.
There in fact had been race discrimination in the United States ongoing for a half century under the guide of Affirmative Action and the War on Poverty. The discrimination was aimed primarily against white men and women, Asians of Chinese origin, and the Jewish People, in order to advance African – Americans and Hispanics in preferential treatment in government, civil service jobs, higher education, police, firemen, and the military. These policies destroyed the hope and legacy and the quality of life of the people so targeted.
REF: https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/kamala-harris-comes-family-slave-owners-dad-says