Vice President Kamala Harris, becomes the first female vice president in U.S. history, formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday becoming the first woman of color to lead a major party ticket.
More than four years after her first attempt at the presidency collapsed, Harris’ coronation as her party’s standard-bearer caps a frenetic period for Democrats prompted by President Joe Biden’s June debate performance that shattered his own supporters’ confidence in his reelection prospects.
Kamala Harris’ nomination became official after a five-day round of online balloting by Democratic National Convention delegates ended Monday night, with the party saying in a statement released just before midnight that 99% of delegates had cast their ballots for Harris.
The party said it would next formally certify the vote before holding a celebratory roll call at the party’s convention later this month in Chicago.
Harris has already telegraphed that she doesn’t plan to veer much from the themes and policies that framed Biden’s candidacy, such as democracy, gun violence prevention and abortion rights.
Kamala Devi Harris was born Oct. 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer scientist who emigrated to the United States from India when she was 19 years old, and Stanford University emeritus professor Donald Harris, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Jamaica.
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