The historic 2020 Election in America produces the first woman Vice President in the United States, Kamala Harris.
Kamala, a Black woman on the presidential ticket with the now president elect Joe Biden defeated the one term incumbent President Donald Trump in a keenly contested race.
Senator Kamala Harris made history as America’s first female, first Black president elect. In a congratulatory telephone conversation with president – elect Joe Biden, she congratulated him on their victory. Kamala said, “We did it Joe. You are going to be the next President of the United States.”
Major cities in America erupted in celebration when the news broke on Saturday 7 November 2020 that the Democratic Presidential candidate, Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris had defeated the incumbent President Donald Trump.
President elect Joe Biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris won the election with the announcement of the result of Pennsylvania electoral vote tally of 284 overtaking the 270 needed to win the White House.
In his first message after emerging president elect, Joe Biden said, “I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect Harris.
“In the face of unprecedented obstacles, a record number of Americans voted. Proving once again, that democracy beats deep in the heart of America.
With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation.
It’s time for America to unite. And to heal.
“We are the United States of America. And there’s nothing we can’t do, if we do it together.”
Growing up in Oakland, Kamala had a stroller-eye view of the Civil Rights movement. Through the example of courageous leaders like Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, and Charles Hamilton Houston, Kamala learned the kind of character it requires to stand up to the powerful, and resolved to spend her life advocating for those who could not defend themselves.
After earning an undergraduate degree from Howard University and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings, she began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.
In 2003, Kamala became the District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco. Among her achievements as District Attorney, Harris started a program that gives first-time drug offenders the chance to earn a high school diploma and find employment.
Having completed two terms as the District Attorney of San Francisco, Kamala was elected as the first African-American and first woman to serve as California’s Attorney General. In this role, she worked tirelessly to hold corporations accountable and protect the state’s most vulnerable people.
Over the course of her nearly two terms in office, Kamala won a $25-billion settlement for California homeowners hit by the foreclosure crisis, defended California’s landmark climate change law, protected the Affordable Care Act, helped win marriage equality for all Californians, and prosecuted transnational gangs that trafficked in guns, drugs, and human beings.
In the United States Senate, Kamala’s mission remains unchanged: fighting for the rights of all communities in California. Since taking office, she has introduced and cosponsored legislation to raise wages for working people, reform our broken criminal justice system, make healthcare a right for all Americans, address the epidemic of substance abuse, support veterans and military families, and expand access to childcare for working parents.
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