Her diploma from historically Black Howard University in Washington, DC was the start of a steady rise that took her from a prosecutor to two elected terms as San Francisco’s district attorney and then California’s attorney general in 2010. She was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, then a hub for civil rights and anti-war activism. Harris was born to immigrants to the US – her father from Jamaica and mother from India – and their lives and her own have in some ways embodied the American dream. That means Harris may spend considerable time on Capitol Hill acting as the tie-breaking vote on legislation on anything from judicial nominees to Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. Thanks to two shock Democratic runoff victories this month in Georgia, the Senate will be evenly split, 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans. While the vice president’s job is often seen as ceremonial, Harris will also be thrust into the powerful role of the ultimate decider in the US Senate. Harris wrote on Twitter that she and Biden would set the US on a “new path” and “bring the American people back together”. While Harris pushed back fiercely during the campaign, in the past two months she rose above the fray, pivoting to plans she and Biden are unveiling to help struggling families and fix a reeling economy. When asked about it, Harris curtly dismissed the president: “I don’t comment on his childish remarks.” Trump bitterly contested the results, peddling the lie that the Democrats only won due to massive election fraud.ĭuring the campaign, he routinely attacked Harris, branding her a “monster” after her October debate with Pence. “While I may be the first woman in this office, I won’t be the last,” Harris said in a November 7 speech, her first after US networks projected Biden and Harris as the winners over Trump and his deputy Mike Pence. With Biden, 78, expected to serve only a single term, Harris would be favoured to win the Democratic nomination in 2024, giving her a shot at more history-making – as the US’s first female president. “Let’s get to work.”Īs vice president, Harris will be a heartbeat away from leading the United States.
“A new chapter begins today,” Harris tweeted on Wednesday. Harris, 56, enters the post having already forged a unique path, as California’s first Black attorney general and the first woman of South Asian heritage elected to the US Senate. Kamala Harris smashed through one of the United States’ highest glass ceilings on Wednesday, becoming the first woman, first Black American and first person of Asian heritage to be appointed vice president, blazing a trail in the most diverse White House ever.Īs running mate to now-President Joe Biden, she helped bring Donald Trump’s turbulent rule to an end, assailing him for his chaotic bungling of the COVID-19 pandemic, last year’s unrest over racial injustices and his crackdown on immigration.
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