Kamala Harris, the first US Vice President with Biden. Who is it – Corriere.it

FROM OUR REPORT Palm Beach County (Florida) Happy warrior: this is how Kamala Harris defined herself when she took the field for the Democratic presidential nomination, at a time that now seems remote, before the pandemic. We must be happy warriors, too many things cause anxiety, depression and anger. He soon lost that battle, retired with bad polls and insufficient funds. Later, Joe Biden elected her as a deputy, despite accusing him in a debate of obstructing the bus program for the unbundling of blacks from schools when she was in elementary school. The great friendship between Kamala and Beau, Joe’s son who died of cancer, also weighed. who was once a state attorney like her.

In the past two months, the California senator has returned to the road with the election bus in a historic race to become the first woman, the first black and the first Indian-American vice president of the United States.. Two vice candidates, the left Geraldine Ferraro and the right Sarah Palin, failed before her, plus Hillary Clinton. Drive-ins like the one Kamala wrapped up her Florida tour last Saturday in Palm Beach, the county where Donald and Melania Trump voted, measure how much the pandemic has changed the Democratic campaign. Among the audience stood out pink and green posters, the symbolic colors of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Howard College’s historic black student brotherhood, which also included Maya Angelou and Rosa Parks. Groups like these were born in the United States because whites rejected blacks. And now Harris, one of them, could become vice president. However, this historic race was subdued. The meeting places announced at the last minute by word of mouth, the people in the car, the circles in which the widely spaced journalists sat. Instead, it was Republicans who often reminded voters that since Biden will be America’s oldest president, Kamala, a socialist, may end up in office. L ‘American spectator titled: Here’s Why You Should Care Who Kamala Slept With To Get To The Top.

Harris no longer talks about the Indian biologist mother and Jamaican economist father who met in Berkeley and brought her to the first stroller protest. Biden and I are proud Americans, he says simply. Her husband Doug Elmhoff, a white Jewish lawyer, used to go to Palm Beach to reassure the women of the suburbs. Kamala, a former San Francisco and California prosecutor, memorable for harsh questions in the Senate, has at times played the role of the typical MPs’ attack dog, as in the television showdown with Mike Pence, in which she refused to be silenced. (I’m talking). But Obama did more, and overall, the Biden campaign thinks it’s best to let Trump self-destruct. Also because Harris, progressive on social and environmental issues, does not like the left for elections (for example in the police) that the prosecutor does.