At age 55, the senator from California is also the first person of indian origin to run for the vice-presidency. It could be the dauphine designated for 2024.
A historic choice. The democratic candidate for the White House Joe Biden has chosen senator Kamala Harris to challenge with him Donald Trump on 3 November, the first black woman colistière in the United States, which could also become the first vice-president. At age 55, the senator from California is also the first person of indian origin to run for the vice-presidency of the United States.
“On the road to victory,” tweeted Joe Biden, 77 years old, in the evening, after an avalanche of positive reactions among the big names democrats but also athletes, with LeBron James, or celebrities such as Taylor Swift.
The ex-prosecutor said that it was “honored” with this decision, which gives a boost to a campaign largely paralyzed by the pandemic Covid-19. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will speak together on Wednesday afternoon at Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, where the democratic candidate.
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Trump said he “was surprised”
Donald Trump has quickly set the tone for future exchanges. “Joe the slack and Kamala sham, made to be together, bad for America” denounces a video tweetée by the american president.
At the press conference, he said he was “surprised” by this decision, in taclant the new colistière for his performance “poor” in the democratic primary. “She has had very bad results to the primary. And it is like a poll,” added the republican president. Despite early fanfare, Kamala Harris had thrown in the towel as early as December in the race for the presidential nomination, even before the first ballot, for lack of good results, and the means, and then had rallied behind Joe Biden in march.
“Gatherer”
“I have the immense honor to announce that I chose Kamala Harris, a veteran fighter committed to the courageous defence of the popular classes and one of the greatest servants of the State, as my colistière” : This is the tweet that Joe Biden, former vice-chairman of Barack Obama, has finally unveiled the secret, after days of suspense.
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“When Kamala was attorney general (of California), she has worked in close collaboration with Beau” Biden, his son died of cancer in 2015 of which he was very close, wrote to Joe Biden. “I’ve seen how they have challenged the big banks, helped the workers, and protected the women and children in the face of ill-treatment. I was proud at the time, and I am proud now to have her as a partner for this campaign.”
Kamala Harris has responded by employing the image of the “gatherer” on which campaign the candidate for the White House. “Joe Biden can unite the Americans because he has spent his life to fight for us. And when he is president, he will build an America at the height of our ideals”, she tweeted.
the Daughter of immigrant jamaican, and indian, Kamala Harris already accumulates the securities of a pioneer. After two terms as prosecutor in San Francisco (2004-2011), she had been elected, twice, attorney general of California (2011-2017), becoming the first woman, but also the first black person to lead the judicial services of the State’s most populated country. And then 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.
Dauphine designated for 2024 ?
The calls for Joe Biden chooses a colistière black were on the rise since the protest movement history against racism and police violence provoked the United States by the death of George Floyd at the end of may. He had promised as early as march that he would choose a woman. Barack Obama welcomed the decision “in the middle”. She who had dreamed of breaking the glass ceiling by becoming the first woman president of the United States, Hillary Clinton, a candidate unhappy in 2016, said it was “delighted” to see this duo as “historical”.
At 78 years old in January, Joe Biden would be the oldest u.s. president to take office if he won the election. He has hinted that he would do one term and his vice-president should therefore appear in dauphine designated for the election of 2024, or even be called upon to replace in the event of a serious health issue, or death.
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If it is close to the candidate, which she calls “Joe” in public, Kamala Harris had caught the attacker with a vengeance during their first debate, democrat, 2019. And some voters and progressives criticize him his past as a prosecutor to the reputation harsh towards minorities.
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But his experience as a prosecutor, he had also earned the applause of democrats and critical of republicans during his interrogation scathing candidate’s controversial the supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. Donald Trump said it again Thursday : it was according to him “the most evil, the most horrible, the most contemptuous of the u.s. Senate”.
