Kamala Harris, Biden’s proposed candidate for President of the United States

Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, has been proposed by Joe Biden to become the new Democratic candidate for the presidential election next November, after the president announced his withdrawal from the electoral race this Friday.

Who is Kamala Harris? She was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California to an immigrant family and civil rights activist. Her father of Jamaican descent was a professor of economics at Stanford University and her mother was a renowned Indian breast cancer researcher.

• Kamala Harris has a degree in political science and economics from Howard University in Washington and a law degree from Harvard University.

She began working at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in 1990, where she specialized in child sexual abuse cases. Later, the current US Vice President began working as San Francisco’s district attorney in 2004, where she was a national leader of the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

• Kamala Harris continued her rise and was elected California’s attorney general in 2010, where she oversaw the largest state justice department in the US. During this stint she secured a $20 billion settlement for Californians whose homes had been foreclosed and defended the Affordable Care Act in court.

political career. Kamala Harris began her political career as a Democratic senator after winning the 2016 election with the support of party leaders such as Biden and former President Barack Obama. During these years she promoted laws to fight hunger, reduce rent prices, and improve maternal health care.

• The Democratic politician announced his intention to run as a candidate in the presidential elections to be held a year later in 2019. However, despite growing support, he decided to withdraw months later.

Vice President. Joe Biden, then US presidential candidate, chose Kamala Harris as his running mate for the country’s vice president in August 2020, subsequently winning the election held in November that year.

• Kamala Harris thus became the first black woman to serve as Vice President of the United States.