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Kamala Harris named by Joe Biden as his VP pick
Aug 11, 2020 2 mins, 23 secs

Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris, the prominent senator from California whose political career has included many barrier-breaking moments, as his running mate, his campaign announced on Tuesday.

The decision comes more than a year after Harris, who was also a 2020 Democratic candidate, clashed with Biden over racial issues during the first primary debate.

The announcement from Biden caps weeks of speculation and is Biden’s biggest decision to date as the presumptive Democratic nominee, a detail Biden himself noted in his announcement.

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," Biden wrote in an email from his campaign to supporters.

Harris, in a tweet, said she was "honored" to join Biden "as our party's nominee for Vice President, and do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief.".

I'm honored to join him as our party's nominee for Vice President, and do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief.

Biden and Harris will appear together and speak in Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday, the campaign said.

As attorney general, Harris worked closely with Biden’s late son, Beau Biden, when he was Delaware's attorney general, particularly in challenging big banks in the wake of the housing crisis.

Because of their friendship, Harris' attack on Biden during the first Democratic primary debate for his record on busing and working with segregationists came as a shock to the Biden campaign, his family and the candidate himself.

The Trump campaign pounced on that moment immediately after Biden's announcement in a freshly cut ad — which Trump himself tweeted moments after the announcement — that alleged Harris attacked "Biden for racist policies" and that slammed the pair as "Slow Joe and Phony Kamala.".

In the months after she left the race, Harris had given her full support to the Biden campaign.

“Senator Harris is a tenacious and trailblazing leader who will make a great partner on the campaign trail.

Warren tweeted that Harris would be a "great partner" to Biden.

“Joe Biden’s naming of Senator Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for vice president marks an historic and proud milestone for our country,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement.

“As the vice president of the United States, Senator Harris will continue her legacy of trailblazing leadership to move our nation forward.”

2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton tweeted that she was "thrilled to welcome @KamalaHarris to a historic Democratic ticket" and lauded her as an "incredible public servant and leader."

Kamala Harris — a woman of Jamaican-American and Indian-American descent — as vice president is nothing short of historic," said Aimee Allison, Founder of She the People

“Senator Kamala Harris is nothing short of an exceptional choice for vice president,” said Human Rights Campaign president Alphonso David

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