Amid questions over her political identity after her dropout from the 2020 presidential nomination race, Kamala Harris is picked as presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden's running mate
US Senator Kamala Harris holds her first organising event in Los Angeles as she campaigns in the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination race in Los Angeles, California, US, May 19, 2019.
Her selection came as little surprise. With the United States in the midst of a reckoning over its history of racial injustice, Biden had increasingly been pressed to select a woman of colour. "She has been very resolute," said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the longstanding civil rights and social justice advocacy group, which has worked with Harris on reform issues. “She has the ability to go toe-to-toe with anybody.”
Now, Payne said, "There is a little more of a defined voice. There’s more clarity to her public persona.”Her background in law enforcement had been seen as a vulnerability early in the race for the party's nomination. But her work of late has impressed some past doubters who say she did not do enough to investigate police shootings and too often sided with prosecutors in wrongful conviction cases in the past.
"The case for me is simple: She's been a change agent at every level of government — local, state, and federal — for 30 years," Crump wrote as the search for Biden's running mate entered a final stage. "Back when Kamala was Attorney General, she worked closely with Beau. I watched as they took on the big banks, lifted up working people, and protected women and kids from abuse," the elder Biden wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. "I was proud then, and I'm proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign."
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