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Kamala harris, the Democratic candidate for vice president of the United States who challenges Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s deputy, in the debate on Wednesday night, often described as the female version of Barack Obama.
Lawyer, entered politics about twenty years ago (now California Senator), with his life experience could lead to the White House – in the event of a victory of Joe biden November 3: a multi-ethnic vision of society and a propensity for dialogue between religions.
Harris cream 56 years faOctober 20, 1964) a Oakland, a Californian city overlooking the bay of San Francisco, gives Shyamala Gopalan, a Indian biologist came to the United States in 1958 to make a contribution to genetic research on breast cancer, andJamaican economist Donald Harris: Researcher at the University of Berkeley, later a professor at Stanford, the most prestigious academy on the west coast.
So Indian and African American roots while her husband, Douglas Emhoff, white, lawyer, Jewish: Harris -who also has a younger sister, Maya-, in short, a character that reflects the multi-ethnic evolution of American society. And who, like Obama 12 years ago, accumulates support for it, but also encounters resistance and not only in the conservative white world.
If he first black president of the United States many blacks looked at him with suspicion because of his white mother, Harris was criticized when defined herself as African American: black but of Caribbean origin, according to some it is not part of the ethnic group that descends from the tragic deportation of slaves from Africa.
As to religion, Kamala a Christian belonging to the Black Baptist Churchbut she was raised by her mother to absorb elements of Hindu culture as well, while now being in touch with her husband’s Judaism – according to some, the embodiment of future religious trends, with many young people tending to develop their own beliefs. multi-denominational.
Charming, empathetic, forward-thinking on the economy, the environment, immigration, and civil rights, Kamala Harris also earned a reputation as a staunch advocate for law enforcement when she was elected Chief Attorney for the City of San Francisco, and later take the lead throughout the California court system.
All of this has guaranteed him broad support from the democratic electorate of all ethnicities despite the fact that today, in a season marked by protests over police violence against people of color, Kamala ended up in Black Lives Matter’s crosshairs– Accused of having been, as a magistrate, too harsh in fighting crimes, especially drugs, committed by blacks and of failing to act firmly to curb the excesses of the Los Angeles police.
All of this has only scratched his popularity: Senator elected by California three years ago, Harris immediately decided to try to climb to the White House. More than a year ago, in the first televised debate between Democratic candidates, she caught the attention of the United States for her determination and for the attack launched on the favorite, Joe Biden, precisely on the racial question. A campaign perhaps too aggressive in tone and poorly organized in the construction of a network of professionals and volunteers in the different states of the Union, quickly transformed a potential revelation into a secondary actor, relegated to the rear by the polls.
Short of funds and with an electoral team in disarray, in December of last year Harris decided to withdraw from the race for the White House before the primary season began. But on August 11 Joe Biden, after overcoming resentment over the confrontation a year earlier, elected her for the Democratic nomination recognizing that in terms of dialectics, age, ethnic diversity, gender and geographical origin, Kamala, among the possible options, is the character of greater caliber and more complementary than him: white, old professional of the American Atlantic coast politics.
Harris too I was very close to Beau Biden – Joe’s son who passed away in 2015, who was attorney general in Delaware while she was in California: They often listened to each other, during the recession that followed the 2008 crash, even every day, and found themselves fighting the same battles . it was the former vice president who confirmed that friendship with your son influenced your decision.
the third woman to enter a presidential ticket after Geraldine Ferraro (Walter Mondale’s Democratic MP in 1984, but Reagan won) and Sarah Palin (John McCain’s MP in 2008, defeated by Obama).
Will biden batter Trump, read sar the first woman to enter the US office.. If you prove yourself talented and know how to build a broad consensus, you will have the opportunity to profoundly influence American politics for 12 years: 4 years as MP and perhaps 8 years as President, if Biden, 77, will be a one-term leadership. which will launch the candidacy of its deputy in 2024.
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