a first black and Indian woman to the vice-presidency of the United States

In the US presidential race, Democratic candidate Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate. The Californian senator would thus be the first black and Indian woman to run for vice-president.

In a tweet, the Democratic presidential candidate on November 3, Joe Biden, announced the choice of his vice-president: Kamala Harris, 55, Democratic senator from California.

"A fighter without fear for the weak, and among the best servants in the land," writes the politician.

A choice that is not without societal repercussions, because the hypothetical elected would be the first black woman (her mother is Indian and her father is Jamaican) vice-president.

In early April, Kamala Harris’s ratings began to rise, through his positions during the coronavirus epidemic. With the George Floyd affair, she edged out her ex-rival Elizabeth Warren in the preferences of Democratic voters.

This decision made Donald Trump react during his daily press conference at the White House. : "I was more surprised than anything else because she was very poor " during the Democratic primary campaign, won by Joe Biden. "She had very poor results in the primaries. And that's like a poll. "

Small sentences always rewarding …

Yet as 20minutes recalls, Kamala Harris is a "historic choice" for Hillary Clinton, a "champion of the working classes" for Nancy Pelosi, she "will fight to reform health" according to Bernie Sanders and she is "more than ready for the job "for Barack Obama.

A hell of a career but …

Kamala Harris was born in 1964 in Oakland, and grew up in a progressive sixties California. Her Jamaican father was a professor of economics, and her now deceased Indian mother a breast cancer researcher. At the college level, she is studying law at the University of California. Between 2004 and 2011, she cumulated two terms of attorney in San Francisco, before being elected, twice, attorney of California in 2011 and 2017. She then became the first woman, but also the first black person, to head the services. courts in the most populous state in the country, reports the France-Presse agency. In January 2017, she entered the United States Senate, as a representative of California.

However, its success must be qualified. In an editorial by a law professor in The New York Times, she is presented as "often on the wrong side of history when she was a prosecutor." In the article it is mentioned his opposition to the systematic wearing of cameras by the police, his refusal of a bill to impose an investigation in the event of a shooting involving the police, as well as his appeal procedure after that a judge declared in 2014 the unconstitutionality of the death penalty in the state.

It will take three months to finally see if Kamala Harris has conquered the crowds.

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