A group of Black female political operatives had been lobbying Joe Biden’s campaign for months to choose a Black woman as his VP
on the criticism, saying there is a double standard for women, and particularly women of color, with big goals.
The last time she lobbied for a Black woman vice presidential nominee, during Walter Mondale's 1984 campaign, Brazile said her request fell on deaf ears. Hours after Biden announced Harris as his pick, Moore reflected on the push to nominate the California senator as the latest step in a winding, often painful path for women in national Democratic politics. That path traced from Geraldine Ferraro joining Mondale’s 1984 ticket through Clinton’s 2016 run to Tuesday’s elevation of Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants and a graduate of Howard University, a historically Black university.
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