Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama’s vice president Joe Biden selected California Senator Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate on Tuesday. Harris, 55, is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian heritage to be chosen for a presidential ticket. She is the fourth woman in US history to run on the presidential ticket.

The two candidates will appear together in Wilmington, Del on Wednesday. In choosing Harris as his running mate, Biden is effectively paving the way for another presidential run by Sen. Harris, who dropped out of the 2020 presidential primary race in December, 2019.

Daughter of Immigrant Academics

Sen. Harris was raised in Oakland and Berkeley, California — the daughter of two academics: an Indian-American mother and a father from Jamaica. The vice presidential candidate attended Howard University in Washington, DC and was the Attorney General of California before being elected to the Senate in 2016 as the second Black woman.

Fierce Debate and Analytical Skills

Kamala Harris is generally considered to be highly well-informed with a deep knowledge base on a wide variety of critical issues. Her Senate Judiciary questioning of prospective Trump Attorney General Bill Barr went digital and has never failed to inspire Democrats. It’s an understatement to say that Harris has strong debate and fierce prosecutorial skills. Donald Trump should be happy that he will not face Sen. Kamala Harris on the debate stage.

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As a child, Harris went to both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple — embracing both her South Asian and Black identities. “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters,” Harris later wrote in her autobiography, “and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women.”