Vice President Kamala Harris is of Jamaican Indian descent is going to be the first Black and South Asian woman to be nominated for president in U.S history. As history was made through the former president Barrack Obama Regime that brought as an African Descent to become the president of United States of America so also the history will be repeated in seeing the first female president from South Asia.
Harris made history when she was elected vice president in 2020, becoming the first woman and first Black and South Asian American to hold the job. As it is now going to be an upgrade from Vice President to the seat of President.
The organization Glenda Carr leads Higher Heights that was dedicated to help Black women run for elected office, Said Harris’ nomination changes how women of color in politics are viewed.
The Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to make a final decision on choosing who will be the running mate in the coming days. She was chosen from been a running mate to President Biden. And now as the position remains vacant she will be choosing someone that can take over her former position. After choosing the vice president then two of them will be taking up campaign trail for a series of events in crucial battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina, according to her campaign. This have come to a moment in history where Americans are watching a time that is not historic not just for Black women but this is, you know, everyone from across the globe is watching this moment. This has become cracking open the cement and not even a glass ceiling for women of color and Black women.
Harris builds on the legacy of the late Shirley Chisolm, who was the first Black woman elected to Congress. The New York Democrat was the first woman and first African American to seek the nomination of a major party when she announced her candidacy for president in 1972.
The Vice President Kamala Harris candidacy sets a new direction in the way about Black women’s political leadership which is what is important in this moment.
The vice president has taken a ceremonial roll call that commence next week as a vowed to defeat former President Donald Trump in November election and reiterated that her campaign is focused on the future.
She said that “the campaign is about all of us coming together, people coming together from every walk of life, every lived experience and being fueled by our love of country, knowing that we are prepared to fight for the best of who we are,” she said.
Democrats swiftly trusted Harris as their candidate to take on Trump after President Biden announced less than two weeks ago his withdrawal from the presidential race. Mr. Biden endorsed Harris right away, and major Democratic figures joined him in throwing their support behind the vice president. Now Vice President replaced President Biden as a Democrats presidential candidate.
Harris ran unopposed for the Democratic presidential nomination after Mr. Biden dropped out, and went into the virtual roll call vote with the backing of nearly all state delegations.
The president praised Harris for securing the delegate support needed to clinch the nomination, writing on social media that he “couldn’t be prouder. Let’s win this.”
The vice president’s campaign said Friday that it raised the amount of $310 million in July, a tally that includes money raised before Mr. Biden dropped out. The doubles the $139 million the Trump campaign said it raised over the same period.
Harris is yet to announce her pick for vice president, but her campaign has vetted roughly a dozen candidates, including a number of Democratic governors. And the top contenders will meet with Harris herself this weekend.
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