Washington, United States.
Kamala Harris will break one of the tallest glass ceilings when he takes the oath as the first on Jan. 20 vice president of the United States, Marking the path of the White house most diverse in history.
As the president-elect’s formula companion, Joe Biden, Helped put an end to the turbulent government of Donald Trump. During the campaign, Harris confronted him for his chaotic handling of the pandemic of the covid-19, Riots over racial injustice and its harsh measures against the immigration.
Harris, 56, enters the White House after walking a unique path. was the first black woman to be elected Attorney General in California and the first woman of South Asian descent in the Senate.
As vice president, she will be one step closer to leading the United States.
Since it is expected that Biden, 78, only serving one term, Harris would be in a privileged position to win the Democratic Party presidential nomination four years later.
“Even if she’s the first woman in office, I won’t be the last,” Harris said in a speech Nov. 7, the first after U.S. networks will screen Biden and Harris like the winners over Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump he bitterly challenged the results, selling the lie that Democrats only won because of massive election fraud.
During the campaign, he habitually attacked Harris, calling her a “monster” after his October vice presidential debate with Pence. When reporters asked him about it, Harris abruptly cut to president. “I don’t comment on his childish statements.”
While Harris responded fiercely during the campaign, in the past two months she has turned to plans she and Biden have been revealing to help troubled families and fix a faltering economy.
“The first 100 days of administration Biden-Harris they will focus on gaining control of this pandemic, ensuring that vaccines are distributed equitably and free of charge for all, ”he wrote on Tuesday.
While the vice president’s job is often seen as ceremonial, Harris will also play a powerful, decisive role in the U.S. Senate.
Thanks to the two stunning Democratic victories in the second round this month in the state of Georgia, the Senate will be divided equally: 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans.
This means that Harris can spend considerable time at the Capitol acting as the casting vote on a number of important issues, from court nominees to Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion stimulus plan.
Both parents of Kamala Harris they are immigrants. His father came to the United States from Jamaica and his mother, now dead, from India and their lives were marked by the narrative of the “American dream.”
Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California, which was then a focus of civil rights and anti-war activism.
She graduated from Howard University in Washington, an icon of black culture in the United States, and this was the beginning of a dazzling career as a prosecutor, which led her to be chosen twice as a prosecutor of district in San Francisco and then California Attorney General in 2010.
But his speech that he was a “progressive prosecutor” has been questioned by critics who point out that he fought to maintain unjust convictions and opposed reforms in California, such as a law urging the attorney general to investigate the shootings in that the police were involved.
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 upper house.
His management as Attorney General allowed him to approach Beau Biden, The dead 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 work, and, to be honest with you, that weighed heavily on my decision (to choose her), ”Biden said during his first appearance with Harris as a teammate.
Harris exudes charisma and can quickly move from her warm smile to the inquisitive prosecutor style that made her famous.
Excerpts from his questioning in 2017 to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a Senate hearing on Russia went viral.
Harris also clashed with Biden during the first debate among Democratic nominees over the then-senator’s opposition to a 1970s program to incorporate minority children into mostly white schools to fight segregation.
“There was a girl in California who was part of the second grade when she was integrated into a public school and was taken on the bus to that school every day,” he said in reference to transporting children to white school neighborhoods. “And that girl was me,” he added.
During his only debate against the vice president Mike Pence, Harris raised his hand as he tried to interrupt her.
“Mr. Vice President, I’m talking, I’m the one talking,” he told Pence, managing to silence him.
A Biden it also serves her image as a modern woman.
Kamala Harris she has no biological children, but claims her role as the mother of her husband’s children, white lawyer Douglas Emhoff, who also took an active part in the presidential campaign.
Emhoff will become the first “second knight” of the United States and the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. vice president.