Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., Said that the presidential candidate Joe Biden’s choice of sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Because his running mate was “pretty cool,” despite noted differences in her policy judgments.
“I rarely agree with @KamalaHarris on anything. I think she’s wrong about every Dadgum issue. But it’s pretty cool that we live in a country where an immigrant couple can have a girl who can take a shot. have to be the most powerful person in the world, “Burchett tweeted Wednesday.
Harris, who is running as the third female VP candidate and the first Black and South Asian American candidate in American history, is the daughter of two immigrants.
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Shyamala Gopalan, Harris’ mother was from India and her father Donald Harris was from Jamaica – the two would presumably be in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley.
“My mother and father, like so many other immigrants, came to this country for an education. Mother, from India. Father, from Jamaica. And the 1960s civil rights movement brought them together, ‘Harris said in an email to her supporters Wednesday.
Harris decided to run for California’s attorney general because of her mother’s activism.
‘That spirit of activism is the reason my mother, Shyamala, would always tell my sister and me,’ Just don’t sit around and complain about things. Do something, ” Harris said. “And that’s why I’m dim today to join Joe Biden in the fight to defeat Donald Trump and build a country that upholds our values of truth, equality and justice.”
Biden, who made a promise of a campaign to select a woman to take with him as a ticket for the candidate as vice presidential candidate, also had other minorities on the list, including former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., Former Congresswoman Stacey Abrams, D-Ga., And rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.
Biden said he selected Harris, despite her controversial interactions on the campaign track, because of “her record of accomplishments” and “fighting teeth and nails for what is good.”
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“There is no door that Kamala will not knock, no stone that will leave her unturned, if it means life gets better – for the people,” Biden said in his announcement of his choice for VP.
The Trump campaign was quick to jump over Biden’s decision, releasing an attack minutes after the announcement.
The video ends with nicknames saying, “Slow Joe and Phony Kamala. Perfect together. Bad for America.” Trump may well use the names mentioned during the campaign track, given his record of recording epithets for the names of people who he does not like.
In addition, Trump followed Harris on Tuesday during a White House press release in which he called her “disgusting,” the same term he repeatedly called Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
“The choice we make this November will determine America’s future for a very, very long time,” Biden said during the first campaign event since the announcement of the Biden-Harris ticket.
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“You all knew it was coming, you could set your watches on it. Donald Trump has already started his attacks, calling Kamala, quoting, annoying, crying about how she is, offering, meaning to his supporters,” he said. Biden.
“Is anyone surprised that Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman, like strong women in general?” He added.
The 2020 presidential race has been an unusually low-key affair in recent months, due to the coronavirus pandemic that canceled, rescheduled or forced political events to remain voluntary. But since the announcement of Biden’s VP, the race has received more attention again in the daily news cycle.
