Published 19:22 IST, August 12th 2020
Joe Biden calls Kamala Harris 'daughter of proud immigrants', urges all to take 'action'
US’ Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden took to Twitter to hail the ‘daughter of proud immigrants’, Kamala Harris, and to urge citizens to take action.
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US’ Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden recently took to Twitter to hail ‘daughter of proud immigrants’, Kamala Harris, and to urge citizens to ‘take action’. Biden in a tweet informed that Harris’ parents, mor from India and far from Jamaica, raised her to take action. And as he anunced 55-year-old as his Vice Presidential running mate, Biden said that this moment calls for same, furr hoping that Americans would ‘take action’ with m.
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Biden calls Harris ‘fearless fighter’
Making history by selecting first black woman to compete in a major Party’s presidential ticket, Biden, on August 12, anunced that he has picked a ‘fearless fighter’ as his running mate. If elected she would be first-ever woman to be vice president of United States and first-ever Indian-American and African vice president of country.
Harris is currently US Senator from California and often has been described as a trailblazer by former president Barack Obama. She was born in Oakland and grew up in Berkeley. Harris is kwn for many firsts. In 2010, she became first black woman to be elected as California's Attorney General, overseeing country’s second-largest Justice Department, only behind US Department of Justice.
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She has been a county district attorney; district attorney for San Francisco — first woman and first African-American and Indian-origin to be elected to position. She was also first female African-American and Indian-origin to become California’s attorney general. Harris became first Indian-origin and second African-American woman to join Senate, winning California seat vacated by Senator Barbara Boxer, who retired after 24 years.
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She held first event of her 2020 presidential campaign in Washington on landmark campus of Howard University, from which she earned an undergraduate degree in 1986. Harris had launched her presidential campaign in January 2019. After initial few months, her campaign could t take off and by end of year, she withdrew from race.
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19:22 IST, August 12th 2020