2021 US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff take a selfie with the owners of Floriana, an Italian restaurant that has been in business over 40 years, during a visit to aid the local establishment amongst the Covid-19 pandemic, near Dupont Circle in Washington, DC.
Kamala Harris will shatter one of the highest glass ceilings Wednesday when she takes the oath of office as America’s first female vice president, blazing a trail in the most various White House ever.
As running mate to incoming president Joe Biden, she assisted in bringing Donald Trump’s turbulent rule to conclusion,rapping him during the campaign for his disorganized handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, last year’s unrest over racial injustice and his crackdown on immigration.
Harris, 56, enters the post already forging a different path, as California’s first Black attorney general and the first female of South Asian heritage elected to the US Senate.
As vice president, she will be a heartbeat away from leading the United States.
With Biden, 78, supposed to serve only a single term, Harris would be definitely favorited to win the Democratic nomination in 2024, giving her a shot at more history-making — as America’s first female president.
“While I may be the first woman in this office, I won’t be the last,” Harris said in a speech on November 7, her first after US networks projected Biden and Harris as the winners over Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump dolefully contested the results, peddling the lie that the Democrats only won due to massive election fraud.
In the campaign he routinely attacked Harris,branding her a “monster” after her October vice presidential debate with Pence. When asked about it my reporters, Harris curtly dismissed the president: “I don’t comment on his childish remarks.”
While Harris pushed back fiercely during the campaign, in the past two months she rose above the fray, pivoting to plans she and Biden are unveiling to help struggling families and fix a reeling economy.
“The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration will be mainly focused on getting control of this pandemic — ensuring vaccines are distributed equitably and free for all,” Harris tweeted on Tuesday.
