As Biden’s search deepened, his campaign took public-facing steps to suggest no bad vibes lingered with Harris. When Biden’s search for a running mate began, he talked of finding someone with whom he was “simpatico” and called back to the partnership he had with Obama, who found in Biden a trusted adviser worthy of a meaningful White House role. And Biden began the next debate by jokingly telling her, “Go easy on me, kid,” a comment that came across as patriarchal and condescending. Some Biden team insiders in the weeks that followed talked as if Harris had killed her chances of the vice presidency that night. Afterward, his allies grumbled that Harris’s attack was out of bounds, especially given her relationship with Beau when both served as state attorneys general. “And that little girl was me.”īiden, caught off guard, stumbled through a response. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day,” Harris added. “I do not believe you are a racist,” she began as she criticized Biden for boasting about his amicable working relationships with segregationist senators who shared his views on busing. Harris - at the time struggling to break out in a field of candidates who were bunched up behind Biden, the frontrunner - called back to his opposition to busing as a means to racially integrate schools in the 1970s. On Tuesday night, a photographer with the campaign tweeted a photo of the two of them speaking over video chat.Ī Biden–Harris pairing became unthinkable to many after she got the better of him during the first Democratic debate last year in Miami. There is no one’s opinion I valued more than Beau’s and I’m proud to have Kamala standing with me on this campaign."
I thought a lot about that as I made this decision. He had enormous respect for her and her work. "They were both Attorneys General at the same time. "I first met Kamala through my son Beau," Biden said in his Tuesday email. Other parts of Harris’s record as a tough-on-crime prosecutor, however, have been criticized by criminal justice reform advocates, and they could put Biden further out of step with young voters and progressives who have embraced calls to “defund the police.”Ī longtime ally of former president Barack Obama, Harris also had been close with Beau Biden, Biden’s late son and political heir, before he died of brain cancer in 2015. She advocated for police reform as district attorney, implementing early training for police against racial bias and spearheading efforts to reduce recidivism among low-level offenders. As the former top prosecutor in San Francisco and later for the state of California, Harris had built her own presidential bid as a prosecution of Trump, with a national profile that was elevated by her grilling of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings. Harris is likely to serve Biden’s campaign as a weapon against Trump. "Those of us who have been battling for years now, tying to get this country forward, toward a more perfect union are very, very pleased with the day." "What we have experienced here today is one more chapter in this country living out it's true creed: That all men - and, in this instance, women - are created equal," Clyburn said. House Majority Whip James Clyburn, an influential South Carolina Democrat who advised Biden informally during the search, praised Harris's selection Tuesday in a conference call with reporters. Harris, who is scheduled to join Biden for an event in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday, tweeted that she was "honored" to join the ticket.
"I need someone working alongside me who is smart, tough, and ready to lead," Biden wrote in the email. There also has been persistent speculation around Biden’s campaign that he might not seek a second term if he beats President Donald Trump.
A former vice president himself, he has talked of being a “ bridge” to a new era of politicians - like Harris, the 55-year-old daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India. To Biden, who will be 78 on Inauguration Day, Harris represents a potential generational successor to his long career in public service. Harris would be the first female, Black, and Asian American vice president. I’ve decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence and then to lead this nation starting in January 2021." "But the first one is who you select to be your Vice President. "You make a lot of important decisions as president," Biden said in an email to supporters Tuesday afternoon. Kamala Harris of California, at one point his most critical rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, to be his running mate.
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