TOGETHER WE WILL BEAT DONALD TRUMP
The first Black woman to represent California in the United States Senate, Kamala Harris grew up believing in the promise of America and fighting to make sure that promise is fulfilled for all Americans. Kamala’s father immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica to study economics and her mother immigrated from India. Kamala’s mother told her growing up “Don’t sit around and complain about things, do something,” which is what drives Kamala every single day.
Kamala started fighting for working families in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, where she focused on prosecuting child sexual assault cases. From there, she became the first Black woman elected as San Francisco’s District Attorney. In this position, she started a program to provide first-time drug offenders second chances with the opportunity to earn a high school degree and find a job.
In 2010, Kamala became the first Black woman to be elected California Attorney General, overseeing the country’s second largest Justice Department, only behind the U.S. Department of Justice. In this capacity, she managed a $735 million budget and oversaw more than 4,800 attorneys and other employees. As California Attorney General, Kamala fought for families and won a $20 billion settlement for California homeowners against big banks that were unfairly foreclosing on homes.
Kamala worked to protect Obamacare, helped win marriage equality for all, defended California’s landmark climate change law and won a $1.1 billion settlement against a for-profit education company that scammed students and veterans. Kamala also fought for California communities and prosecuted transnational gangs who drove human trafficking, gun smuggling and drug rings.
Since being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016, Kamala has introduced and co-sponsored legislation to help the middle class, increase the minimum wage to $15, reform cash bail, and defend the legal rights of refugees and immigrants.
Kamala serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that deals with the nation’s most sensitive national security and international threats. She also serves on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee where she oversees the federal government’s response to natural disasters and emergencies, including the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19.
On the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kamala has held Trump administration officials accountable and was a powerful voice against Trump’s conservative judicial nominations.
Kamala graduated from Howard University, where she was in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and earned a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Kamala has been married to her husband Doug for the past six years. She is the stepmother of two children, Ella and Cole who are her “endless source of love and pure joy.”
O candidato do Partido Democrata  anunciou horas atrás em seu Twitter que já escolheu sua vice para a corrida rumo à Casa Branca. "Tenho a grande honra de anunciar que escolhi ", escreveu. Kamala por sua vez twittou: "Biden pode unificar o povo americano porque ele passou a vida lutando por nós e, como presidente, ele vai construir uma América que vive de acordo com nossos ideais. Estou honrada de me juntar a ele".

O ex-presidente  também usou a mesma rede social para comentar a escolha. Ele escreveu: "conheço Kamala há muito tempo e ela está muito mais do que preparada para o trabalho". 

Filha de pais migrantes, ele da Jamaica e ela da Índia, Kamala é a primeira mulher afrodescendente a representar a Califórnia no Senado, segundo seu perfil no website oficial. 

A escolha de uma mulher afrodescendente era um anseio de boa parte do eleitorado de Biden, que segundo uma pesquisa do ''Financial Times'' venceria Trump hoje por 298 a 119 votos do . "As pesquisas nacionais mostram que Biden tem uma vantagem significativa. Os idosos brancos em particular, um grupo que ajudou a impulsionar Trump à vitória em 2016, mostraram sinais de desaprovação em relação ao tratamento da pandemia pelo presidente", enfatizou o ''Financial Times''.