Politics Full coverage: Kamala Harris, U.S. “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.” And as president, he’ll build an America that lives up to our ideals,” Harris tweeted.
“Joe Biden can unify the American people because he’s spent his life fighting for us. But her selection also carries symbolic heft in this moment when race relations are at top of mind for voters, particularly since Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, had her own highly publicized confrontation with Biden over race during the primary.
In many ways, Harris, 55, is a safe pick - broadly popular in the Democratic Party and well acquainted with the rigors of a national campaign. The pair are scheduled to appear together for the first time as a presidential ticket in Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday. Kamala is that person,” Biden wrote in an email to supporters Tuesday afternoon. “I need someone working alongside me who is smart, tough, and ready to lead. Senate, Harris was among the most conventionally qualified of the half-dozen or so women under consideration in the most diverse crop of contenders ever. With her statewide experience as California attorney general and four years in the U.S. Harris, who centered her unsuccessful White House bid last year on a promise to “prosecute the case” against President Trump, was widely seen as a front-runner to be Biden’s vice presidential pick. Joe Biden has named his onetime rival Kamala Harris as his running mate, the campaign revealed Tuesday, elevating California’s junior senator as the first woman of color to appear on a major party’s presidential ticket.
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