Indian-born senator Kamala Harris said she thought of her mother “immediately” when former Vice President Joe Biden offered to be his running mate on the Democratic list for the November presidential election.
Trailblazer Harris, 55, has written the history of the American political system by becoming the first black, the first African-American, and the first Indian-American to run for vice president of a major political party. His mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, immigrated to the United States when she was 19 years old and graduated from India in 1957 for higher education.
In multiple interviews, Harris has reflected on the profound impact his mother, a renowned cancer specialist, had on where he is now. “I immediately thought of my mother and what she must be thinking as she looks down on us,” Harris said in response to a question during a fundraiser.
“What was it like getting that Zoom call from Joe Biden (last month)?” They asked him.
Harris recounted how she and her team got a call that Biden wanted to talk and then got another call where she was told that Biden wanted to make a zoom call. She described how she went to “our little makeshift office” and then when the call started, Biden immediately asked her to join the ticket.
After referring to her mother, Harris also described how her husband Doug Emhoff’s ear was on the door outside the bedroom listening to the knock. Finally, Jill Biden and Emhoff joined the call with Biden and Harris.
When asked how he will present his and Biden’s vision during the first 100 days, Harris said the first thing is to “get the virus under control.” “Specifically, we will create a pandemic board that will oversee the tests. So it’s about distribution, it’s about testing being done efficiently. It’s also about making sure that we are investing in the tests that are most relevant to the tests that we are trying to do, for example, rapid tests, ”he said.
Harris went on to flag economic relief through a series of executive orders “to strengthen US product purchase rules so that taxpayer dollars support US products and supply chains.” “Again, day one, I went back into the Paris climate accords,” Harris said. He pointed to California, Oregon and Washington and said “this is all predictable.” He continued, “Rediscover our NATO allies. And this is again one of Joe’s strengths. He has the experience based on a long history of being in the Senate and being a leader in foreign affairs and then, of course, eight years as vice president. ” Harris said he will send a bill to Congress immediately creating a path to citizenship for our dreamers and the 11 million undocumented immigrants, ”Harris said. He said the administration would push through a bill to “deal with systemic racism.” “People march through the streets. Minnesota of course is experiencing this and there are reforms that are important that can be put in place so that we can do things like ban carotid stranglers, which of course would have saved George Floyd’s life, ”he said.
A Biden-Harris administration would also introduce a national standard for the use of force and an oversight commission for the national police standard.
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