July 23, 2024
Just 25 days after the disastrous performance of President Joe Biden in the debate with convicted felon, President Donald J. Trump, Kamala Harris became the de-facto presidential nominee on July 21, 2024, to become the candidate to run against the Republican ex-president, in bids to become the 47th President of the United States.
On July 20, 2021, she was sworn in as the very first female to gain the office of Vice-President of the United States.
Her career ranges from prosecutor to politician.
She is the nation’s first Indian American Senator.
She is California’s first female and South Asian Attorney General.
Kamala is the first woman to become Vice President.
She is a daughter of immigrants, born in Oakland California on October 20th, 1964 making her 59 years old when she became the presumptive nominee to become the Democratic candidate to become the 47th President of the United States.
Her father – Donald Harris immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica.
Her mother – Shyamale Gopalan Harris immigrated to the U.S. from Southern India.
1982 – Kamala enrolled at Howard University in Washington D.C. where she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics. She became the first HBCU graduate to be elected vice president. She joined the country’s oldest Black sorority called Alpha Kappa Alpha and an HBCU graduate.
She attended law school in California at the University of California, Hastings.
Then, she became a prosecutor in the district attorney’s office and served for 30 years.
She was elected to become the district attorney for Alameda County in Oakland, California in 2004 and became a district attorney in San Francisco.
IN 2011, she became the first Black American, first woman and Asian American that was elected to be the attorney general of California.
Kamala previously ran for president in 2020 alongside others, including Joe Biden, in the Democratic Primaries.
In 2014, she married Doug Emhoff, a former managing partner at a law firm. Doug is presently the nation’s first second gentleman.
In 2015, she began her campaign for the US Senate, vying to replace longtime California Sen. Barbara Boxer. In 2019 as a U.S. Senator, she launched her bid to win the White House. She was in a debate with Joe Biden and attacked him on desegregation and school busing.
Kamala became the Vice-President alongside of President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, when the Democrats defeated Donald Trump and kept him from a second consecutive term in office.
During her time in the US Senate, she served on the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as on the Select Committee on Intelligence before her first bid to the White House.
Now, she is set to become the next President of the United States.Â