On January 18th, Kamala officially resigned from the Senate and two days later, amid an incredible security presence, she was sworn in as vice president of the United States of America. It took several hours to secure the building, but Biden and Kamala were eventually certified as the winners of the 2020 US election. Shortly after the proceedings began on January 6th, 2021, Trump supporters stormed the U.S. By early December, all the US states had certified the election results, and the process then moved to Congress for final certification. Even though several lawsuits were filed, no evidence was provided to support the allegations, and many of the cases were dismissed. In the weeks that followed, Trump and other Republicans challenged the election results, claiming voter fraud. Biden also won the popular vote by more than seven million votes. Biden’s eventual electoral vote total was 306 to Trump’s 232. On November 7, four days after the US election, Biden secured the 270 electoral votes he needed to capture the US presidency. This makes her the first black woman and South Asian American to become a vice-presidential candidate. In March 2020, she endorsed Joe Biden, and in August, Biden announced that he had picked her to be his running mate. She eventually ended her candidacy on December 3, 2019, before the first Democratic contest in Iowa. She also tried to walk the fine line between the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party but ended up appealing to neither. While his rumoured shortlist included governors, members of congress, and even mayors and state legislators, he faced pressure to pick a woman of colour like Harris.īut Biden revealed that his criteria for a running mate were that they were "simpatico with me, both in terms of personality as well as substance," and could govern if Biden, 78, were unable to perform the duties of the president.
In March 2020, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to pick a woman as his running mate.
The politician smiles during the vice presidential debate in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joe Biden picked Kamala as his running mate, believing that she is the person he needed in his White House bid, and judging from her impressive biography, Biden made the right choice.
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Kamala Harris is one lady whose biography is full of firsts: she is the first Black woman to be elected district attorney in California history, the first woman to be California's attorney general, first Indian American senator, and now, the first Black woman and first Asian American US vice-president.
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