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NEW DELHI: Kamala Harris’s uncle in India proudly watched her vice presidential debate on Thursday (Oct. 8), feeling “a little sorry” for Mike Pence, who he said he faced a better-qualified enemy.
“Kamala’s expectations were too much: ‘he will clean the floor,’ etc. But Pence has also been a congressman, he knows how to debate. But Pence has an albatross around his neck, and that’s Trump,” Balachandran Gopalan, 79, told the AFP in New Delhi after the US electoral debate in Salt Lake City.
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“I felt a little sorry for Pence. You can’t ask about the judiciary: she was on the judicial committee, she was attorney general, on Black Lives Matter she is an expert, on the pandemic, he is on weak ground,” said the academic. .
In the debate, Harris called US President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response a historic failure, in a scathing but mostly civil discussion compared to Trump’s chaotic confrontation with Joe Biden last week.
Harris, 55, was California’s first black attorney general, the first woman to hold the office, and the first South American senator in history.
She was born in California in 1964 to a Jamaican father, economics professor John Harris, and breast cancer specialist Shyamala Gopalan, Balachandran Gopalan’s late sister.
“My daughter in Washington saw (the debate), my sister in Toronto saw and my younger sister in Chennai saw it too,” the uncle said Thursday.
“Her mother would have been happy for Kamala.”
“Although maybe Shyamala was much more impatient than Kamala at times,” he added. “I wouldn’t be surprised if Shyamala was the polemicist or in the audience, saying ‘what nonsense are you talking, vice president?
“But Kamala was kinder.”
