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Joe Biden said in a post on social media X that he wants to give his full support and backing to make Kamala Harris our party's candidate this year. Now is the time for the Democratic Party to unite and defeat Trump. While Kamala Harris later said that she intends to contest for the presidency
Kamala Harris's Childhood
Kamala Harris was born in Auckland in 1964. Her mother Shyamala Gopalan was born in Chennai. She was a cancer scientist. While her father Donald Harris was an economist from Jamaica. Who settled in America. Harris's parents met while earning a degree at the University of California. Kamala Harris has a sister named Maya.
According to the White House, Harris' parents divorced when she was seven. However, Kamala Harris credits her mother and her sister for embracing Indian and African American cultures while growing up. My mother was acutely aware that she was raising two black daughters. She was determined to make sure we grew up to be confident, proud black women, Harris wrote in her 2019 biography.
College and career
When Harris was 12, she moved to Canada with her mother and sister, and after high school in Quebec, she returned to the United States to attend Howard University. She studied political science and economics. She also spent several weeks on the National Mall protesting apartheid in South Africa. She also participated in a sit-in at the Administration Building in 1983 against the dismissal of the editor of the student newspaper.
After graduating from Howard, he earned a law degree from the University of California at Hastings in 1989. After being admitted to the State Bar of California in 1990, he joined the Alameda County Prosecutor's Office in Oakland as an assistant district attorney prosecuting child sexual abuse cases.
San Francisco Attorney Division Leadership
She went on to work for the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, where she prosecuted a wide range of serious offenders as the office's managing attorney for the Career Criminal Unit. She later led the San Francisco City Attorney's Division on Family and Children.
Harris ran for San Francisco district attorney in 2003. Her opponents questioned her prior acceptance of two state board positions. She was appointed by former California State Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, with whom she had a close relationship. Candidates in the race also questioned whether she could impartially investigate Brown's mayoral administration.
US Vice President
In the summer of 2020, Biden announced he had chosen a woman as his running mate, fulfilling his promise to give a woman on the ticket. When Biden's victory was announced in November 2020, Harris became the first vice president to give a victory speech alongside a president-elect. Harris acknowledged that she was doing something that no one like her had ever done before.
Democratic Party candidates
Now he is supporting Kamala Harris to become the Democratic Party's candidate to replace Biden in the 2024 presidential election. In his statement, Biden said that my first decision as the party's candidate in 2020 was to choose Kamala Harris as Vice President and this is the biggest decision I have ever made.
