In 2024, President Joe Biden will be replaced as the Democratic nominee for US president by US Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, with his endorsement. Concerns from other Democrats regarding President Biden’s mental health and his capacity to defeat Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump led to the announcement of his resignation from the race on Sunday.
Since her mother is from India, Kamala Harris has become well-known there. She soon earned the nickname “the first vice president of Indian descent” in US history. As the son of a Jamaican American, Harris was also the first woman, person of color, and person of Southeast Asian descent to occupy this role in the United States.
“On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country,” Harris wrote on social media after receiving the endorsement. It is an honor to have the President’s support, and I hope to merit and be selected for this nomination.
She promised to bring the Democratic Party and the country together to oppose Trump’s “extreme Project 2025 agenda” in another post.
A detailed examination of Kamala Harris’s upbringing, education, and political goals for the US presidential contest of 2024 is provided here.
Kamala Harris: Who Is She?
Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California, on October 20, 1964, and her history is steeped in civil rights advocacy.
Her father, Donald J. Harris, is a Jamaican American professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University, and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was an Indian scientist who studied breast cancer. Harris’s dedication to social justice was shaped by the involvement of both parents in the civil rights movement.
In a 2019 address, Kamala Harris recalled how her mother used to look at her and tell her, “Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.”
Ella and Cole, their two children, are part of the mixed family she and lawyer Douglas Emhoff created in 2014.
Kamala Harris: A Career In Politics
Harris holds degrees from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and Howard University. After winning the San Francisco district attorney’s seat in 2004, she rose to prominence as a national figure in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
After winning the 2010 California attorney general election, Harris took on the responsibility of leading the state’s largest justice department and obtaining huge settlements for residents impacted by foreclosure and dishonest schooling practices.
After she was sworn into the US Senate in 2017, her political career officially began. Here, she supported laws that addressed issues including hunger, rent relief, healthcare for mothers, support for small businesses, infrastructure revitalization, and mitigating the effects of climate change.
As the first woman, person of color, and South Asian American to hold the office of vice president in the United States, Harris made history in 2021. She has fought for women’s reproductive rights, the reduction of gun violence, voting rights, and environmental preservation in her role as vice president. Joe Biden and Senator Harris attempted to overturn a number of laws from the Trump administration.
According to her White House profile, Kamala Harris also broke the record for the most tie-breaking votes cast by a vice president in the US Senate, which had stood for almost 200 years.
Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy Positions
After first finding it difficult to fit in, Kamala Harris finally gained more attention throughout the second half of Joe Biden’s presidency, especially when it came to foreign policy matters. In an effort to strengthen US relationships and thwart China’s influence, particularly in Asia, she has made notable speeches and travels. Harris has upheld Biden’s position to take China on while looking for opportunities for cooperation.
She has criticized China for its territorial claims in the South China Sea and worked to improve relations with South Korea and Japan, among other countries. Despite her occasional verbal gaffes, she has demonstrated zeal for advancing US interests in the Indo-Pacific area.
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