Published 19:43 IST, November 8th 2020

Masaba Gupta, Priyanka Chopra hail Kamala Harris: 'Dream Big girls! Anything can happen'

Designer Masaba Gupta and actor Priyanka Chopra took to their social media handles to celebrate US Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris' victory. See posts —

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Designer Masaba Gupta and actor Priyanka Chopra took to ir social media handles to celebrate United States' Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' victory. Senator Kamala Harris, 56, who is of Indian origin, has become first-ever woman Vice President-elect of United States.

Priyanka Chopra wrote, "America spoke in record-breaking numbers and verdict is in... EVERY VOTE counts. I applaud everyone who voted in what was such a powerful display of how a democracy should function. It was amazing to witness this election in US. Congrats to President-elect @joebiden and Vice President elect @kamalaharris, first woman VP! Dream Big girls! Anything can happen!! " [sic]

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Masaba penned a heartfelt te and wrote, "You kw when I was little & started to understand more about my ethnicity... fact that I was a mixed child..half Caribbean & half Indian, I thought I was only one of my kind.I used to think wow,masaba re possibly can’t be more like you out re. And n my world opened up,I travelled and on a trip to Antigua I discovered so many more of my kind. It was like looking into a mirror I could never find. And I felt a little less alone in my constant fight to understand racism-it was such a big word. In my fight to understand why I was different."

She furr wrote, "I mean, it’s just so much easier to be like everyone else so you mix with crowd in Mumbai, isn’t it? But today I see @kamalaharris & I kw different is so good. It’s so good that if you keep your chin up & work hard eugh to break out of colour, skin, race box y put you in...you might just make history. Madame Vice President, first black woman / first person of South Asian descent & more importantly just first woman to be VP elect- I salute you & I plan to go back to my drawing board tonight & sketch bigger, brighter dreams for myself and women who will come after me...mixed girls, just like us."

 

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Biden-Harris win US Elections 2020 

After four days of vote counting, Democratic minee Joe Biden was elected 46th US President on Saturday (local time) with 284 electoral college votes, along with vice presidential-elect Kamala Harris. This came after Biden's victory in Pennsylvania which took his past 270 electoral college votes that he needed to win. Despite close call - Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania turned out to be four swing states that helped Biden secure win. He also won 50.6 per cent popular votes amassing 7,48,47,834 ballots.

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will formally assume office in January 2021. Biden's running mate and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has w made history by becoming first woman, first woman of colour and first woman of South-Asian origin to become Vice-President of United States. This isn't first time Democratic VP elect Harris has made history. She made history earlier by becoming first Asian-American to be chosen as a Democratic vice presidential minee. Several world leaders have taken opportunity to congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as ir supporters across US have taken to streets to celebrate victory.

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19:43 IST, November 8th 2020