At their first meeting, common, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have referred to an election, “vital” for the United States and attacked the outgoing president Donald Trump.
The american presidential campaign is not like certainly no other. It is with a mask and in a room almost empty because of the pandemic that Joe Biden has officially presented Wednesday his colistière in the race for the White House, senator black Kamala Harris.
“I had the choice, but I have no doubt you have chosen the right person for this election, “vital to this country”, said the former vice-president of Barack Obama, 77 years of age, after the long selection process of its colistière. “I look forward to working with them all to rebuild the country,” he added.
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With Kamala Harris, Joe Biden made a choice already history : this daughter of immigrant jamaican, and indian is the first colistière black and of origin in South Asia of a major party. She would become the first woman vice-president of the United States if they won the election on 3 November.
“America is a glaring lack of a leader,”
Under the gaze of Kamala Harris, who were listening to him, sitting on a simple chair on the dais, Joe Biden has referred to the “little girls”, including “girls of color who feel so often forgotten and under-estimated”. But “today, maybe, they see each other differently for the first time : with the makings of a president or a vice-president,” he said.
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and Then the ex-attorney took the word with a tone just as serious, in a speech yet interspersed with smiles when they spoke of their families and the memory of the son of the candidate, Beau Biden, who passed away in 2015, that she knew well. “America is a glaring lack of a leader. And yet we have a president who is more concerned of him than to those who elected him”, she started. “We’re in the middle of examination of conscience in the face of racism and injustice widespread,” added the senator from California.
The attacks from Donald Trump aimed Kamala Harris had not delayed on Tuesday: “The most wicked, the most horrible, the most contemptuous of the u.s. Senate”. “I think it’s going to fail”, he added Wednesday. And the team’s Trump to pin “Kamala sham”, which came from the “radical left”. In return, Joe Biden was down the president, a regular in the “whining”, “It surprise anyone that Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman or strong women in general ?”
“Trump’s plan is to blow on the flames”
a Sign of the times, the candidates and their spouses are got hidden on stage. They have denounced the management by the president of the pandemic and the deep economic crisis that hit the United States. “Donald Trump does not seek to blow on the flames with its policies from a racist discourse, and causes the divisions,” said Joe Biden. The new duo starts with an advantage : Joe Biden is ahead of Donald Trump, 74-year-old, a comfortable margin in the average of national surveys (+7.3 percentage points, according to the average of the site RealClearPolitics) but also in several of the States key.
twice Elected prosecutor in San Francisco (2004-2011) and twice attorney general of California (2011-2017), Kamala Harris is being criticized by some progressives for having positions that are too harsh at this time. She was the first woman, but also the first black person to lead the judicial services of the State’s most populated country. In January 2017, she was sworn in to the Senate at Washington, registering as the first woman to have originated in South Asia and only the second senator black in american history.
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as he had promised in march to choose a woman to colistière, Joe Biden was facing increased pressure to choose a candidate black since the death of George Floyd, at the end of may. As the former vice-president must, in part, his nomination for the black voters who had offered him a resounding victory in South Carolina during the primary.
