US Election: Democratic Presidential Candidate, Joe Biden Picks Sen. Kamala Harris As Running Mate

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has selected Kamala Harris as his running mate.

Harris became the first Black and South Asian American woman chosen for national office by a major political party.

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For months, Biden’s search committee poured over records and conducted interviews before presenting a list of finalists to the former vice president.

Biden and Harris will formally accept the Democratic nominations during the party’s convention held virtually next week.

The moderate former prosecutor from California has spent her career breaking barriers.

Here’s what we know:

She is the first Black and South Asian American woman chosen for national office by a major political party.

Harris, 55, follows Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, in 1984, and Republican Sarah Palin, in 2008, as only the third woman to be chosen as the running mate on a presidential ticket.

In California, she was the first woman, and first Black woman, to serve as the state’s top law enforcement official. She is the first Black woman from California to serve in the US Senate, and second from any state, after Illinois’ Carol Moseley Braun. Harris is also the first person of Indian descent to appear on a presidential ticket.

If Biden defeats President Trump in November, Harris would become the first woman in US history to serve as vice president.

Biden called Harris to offer her the job 90 minutes before announcement

Harris tweeted later that she was “honored” to join Biden as the Democratic party’s nominee for vice president, saying she’d “do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief.”
-CNN