Kamala Harris has made history by becoming the first female Vice President of the United States. Harris will be the first black and African-American woman elected as vice president. Harris, of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, is a former California attorney general. He also becomes the first person of Indian descent to occupy the national office in the United States.
“This election is about so much more than @JoeBiden or me. It is about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started,” the newly elected vice president tweeted. Saturday. Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States. He won Pennsylvania on Saturday to exceed the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
Harris has been a rising star in Democratic politics for much of the past two decades. After Harris ended his own 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, Joe Biden chose her as his running mate. They will be sworn in as president and vice president on January 20.
“Over 100 million Americans voted before Election Day with faith in our election process, trusting that their ballots would count. Now, Trump is trying to invalidate these ballots and we have to fight. Donate today to support the Biden Fight Fund Harris tweeted after Trump alleged voter fraud in the US elections.
Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in Chennai and moved to the United States to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. “When my mother Shyamala [Gopalan] He got off a plane in California when he was 19 years old, he didn’t have many belongings, but he carried the lessons from home with him, including those he had learned from his parents, “he said.
Kamala means “lotus flower” in Sanskrit, and Harris nodded to his Indian heritage throughout the campaign. Harris said her mother would take her and her sister Maya to India because she wanted her daughters to understand where she came from. The one-year-old senator recently took a trip back in time, recalling her mother’s attempts to “instill a love of good idli” in her and her sister Maya.
“Growing up, my mother took my sister Maya and me back to what was then called Madras because she wanted us to understand where she came from and where we had ancestry. And, of course, she always wanted to instill in us a love of good Idli, “he said.
Harris’s mother raised her daughters with the understanding that the world would view them as black women, Harris said, and that’s how she describes herself today. She attended Howard University, one of the nation’s historically black universities, and became engaged to Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s first sorority created by and for black women. He campaigned regularly in the HBCUs and tried to address the concerns of young black men and women eager to go to great lengths to dismantle systemic racism.
His victory could bring more black women and people of color into politics.
(With inputs from agencies)
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