Against all permutations,Joe Biden, has picked Kamala Harris as his running mate to help him try to defeat President Donald Trump this November, out of 11 women, including Susan Rice former US Ambassador to the UN and Californian reps member Karen Bass.
Biden, who informed supporters of his choice via text message, wrote: ‘Joe Biden here. Big news: I’ve chosen Kamala Harris as my running mate. Together, with you, we’re going to beat Trump,’ he wrote.
In all, 11 women are said to have been considered, a mix of senators, governors, mayors and members of Congress. Some have already been informed they are not the choice. Biden personally called Rep. Karen Bass to tell her she is not the pick, CNN reported.
The vetting team advising Biden – led by former Connecticut senator Chris Dodd – was reported to have ended its work on Monday.
And Biden himself has not shown his hand, joking around with reporters in public appearances over the weekend but offering no indication of who he would chose. He has spoken with all the contenders either in person or remotely due to restrictions in place by the coronavirus, reports, Daily Mail.
BBC reports that Harris, a known prominent African-American politician also embraced her Indian roots, quoting her as writing in her 2018 autobiography, The Truths We Hold: “My name is pronounced “Comma-la”, like the punctuation mark,” Kamala Harris writes in her 2018 autobiography.”
The report said further that the California senator, daughter of an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father, then explains the meaning of her Indian name: “It means ‘lotus flower’, which is a symbol of significance in Indian culture. A lotus grows underwater, its flowers rising above the surface while the roots are planted firmly in the river bottom.”
Early in life, young Kamala and her sister Maya grew up in a house filled with music by black American artists. Her mother would sing along to Aretha Franklin’s early gospel, and her jazz-loving father, who taught economics at Stanford University, would play Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane on the turntable.
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Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris separated when Ms Harris was five. Raised primarily by her Hindu single mother, a cancer researcher and a civil rights activist, Kamala, Maya and Shyamala were known as ‘Shyamala and the girls’.
Her mother made sure her two daughters were aware of their African-American background.
Source Whirlwindnews.com
