Washington, United States.
Kamala Harris will break one of the tallest glass ceilings when he is the first to take the oath on January 20 Vice President of the United States, marking the path of the White House most diverse in history.
As running mate of the president-elect, Joe Biden, helped put an end to the turbulent government of Donald Trump. During the campaign, Harris confronted him about his chaotic handling of the pandemic COVID-19, the racial injustice riots and their tough measures against it immigration.
Harris, 56, enters the White House after traveling a unique path. Was the first black woman to be elected attorney general in California and the first woman of South Asian descent to the Senate.
As a vice president, she is one step away from running the United States.
Because that is expected BidenThe 78-year-old who only serves one term, Harris would be in a unique position to win the Democratic Party nomination for president four years later.
“Even if I am the first woman in office, I will not be the last,” Harris said in a November 7 speech, the first after US networks. Biden and Harris like Trump’s winners and Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump He bitterly contested the results and lies the lie that the Democrats won only because of massive voter fraud.
During the campaign, he routinely attacked Harris, calling her a ‘monster’ after his vice-presidential debate with Pence in October. When reporters asked about it, Harris abruptly interrupted the president. “I will not comment on his childish statements.”
While Harris reacted fiercely during the campaign, she has spent the past two months making plans she and Biden have unveiled to help struggling families and fix a shaky economy.
The first 100 days of administration Biden-Harris they will focus on getting this pandemic under control and ensuring that vaccines are provided fairly and free of charge to everyone, ”he wrote Tuesday.
While the vice president’s job is often considered ceremonial, Harris will also play a powerful decisive role in the United States Senate.
Thanks to two surprise Democratic second round victories this month in Georgia, the Senate will be evenly split: 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans.
That means Harris can spend a lot of time on Capitol Hill as the ballot on a number of key issues, from court nominees to Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion stimulus plan.
The two parents of Kamala Harris they are immigrants. His father came to the United States from Jamaica and his mother, now deceased, from India, and their lives were marked by the story of the ‘American dream’.
Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California, which was then a hotbed of civil rights and anti-war activism.
She graduated from Howard University in Washington, an icon of black culture in the United States, and that was the beginning of a brilliant career as a prosecutor that led to her being elected twice as a San Francisco prosecutor and after that. California Attorney General in 2010.
But her speech that she was a “ progressive prosecutor ” has been questioned by critics who say she has fought to uphold unfair judgments and opposed reforms in California, such as a law calling for the attorney general to stop shootings involving the policeofficer.
But her work was key to gathering a base and having resonance to launch a successful candidacy to reach the Senate in the 2016 campaign, becoming the second black woman to be elected to the Senate.
His tenure as Attorney General enabled him to approach Beau Biden, the late son of the former vice president, who held the same position as her in Delaware, and who died of cancer in 2015.
“I know how much Beau respected Kamala and her job, and, to be honest, that weighed in on my decision (to choose her), ”Biden said during his first appearance with Harris as running mate.
Harris oozes charisma and can quickly go from her warm smile to the curious persecution style that made her famous.
Excerpts from his 2017 challenges to then Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a Senate hearing on Russia went viral.
Harris also clashed with Biden during the first debate among Democratic candidates over the then-senator’s opposition to a 1970s program to include minority children in predominantly white schools to combat segregation.
“There was a girl in California who was in second grade to be integrated into a public school and taken to that school by bus every day,” she said, referring to the transportation of children to the white school neighborhoods. “And that girl was me,” he added.
During his only debate against the vice president Mike PenceHarris held up her hand as he tried to interrupt.
“Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking, I’m the one speaking,” she snapped at Pence and managed to silence him.
A Biden her image of a modern woman also serves her.
Kamala Harris She has no biological children, but claims her role as the mother of her husband’s children, white lawyer Douglas Emhoff, who was also active in the presidential campaign.
Emhoff becomes the first “second gentleman” of the United States and the first Jewish husband of a Vice President of the United States.