Does Kamala Harris add new value to the Biden Campaign?
Big news: I’ve chosen Kamala Harris as my running mate. We, together, will beat Trump.” It was a big, historic announcement from Joe Biden to his campaign’s supporters on Tuesday at around 4:15 p.m.
Harris is the first African-American female and the first individual of Asian origin to be designated to a key party national ticket. However, at the moment, it was dimmed by the enforced anti-spectacle of Zoom.
In the coming week, instead of showing up at a conventional hall in Milwaukee, Biden, Harris, and an extended roster of speakers of the Democratic National Convention will weigh in via online video.
The seventy-seven years old presidential candidate, Biden, has always said that he is just a “traditional” figure–a generational channel. Now we get a bit more about who may come subsequently.
It was around fourteen months ago when Harris, at her first Democratic debate, criticized Biden for his efforts to get credit for working with segregationists, and his record of opposing mandated busing to integrate schools.
“It was very hurtful to know you talk about the two U.S. senators’ reputations who made their careers and reputes on segregation of race in this country,” Harris said, and then evoked an appearance of her childhood, as “a California’s girl who was part of the second class to integrate public schools of hers.”
That was during February 29th and March 8th when the former candidates Beto O’Rourke and Harris had endorsed Biden, and Klobuchar and Buttigieg had dropped out and ended the same.
As Biden has selected Harris, it is very much anticipated his campaign will receive a thematic clarity that it did not have previously.
In a year of calamities whose effects have been explicitly tendering in Black communities–the massive unemployment originating from coronavirus epidemic, and the police assassination of George Floyd–each of the indication moments of Biden’s campaign has alarmed the legacy of the civil rights movement.
Pollsters will inform you that Biden’s candidacy, despite a long political career, has been undefined. “Build Back Better” isn’t catching any publicity awards.
At Biden’s campaign events, his focus often shifted. At times, he sat down before the end and let a surrogate convey the concluding case for him. Harris, in contrast, came through vibrantly in her campaign’s version of her biography.
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Having an Indian-American mother and a Jamaican-American father, both academics, Harris started participating in civil-rights marches as early as a child and as a young woman at Howard.
A lawyer from the University of California, the District Attorney of San Francisco, and finally a politician, Harris did all of this. Some of the other Democratic contenders, including Julian Castro, and Elizabeth Warren, dove deep into policy, mastering it, but it was often hard to find just what Harris’s plans were.
Harris went back and forth about whether she backed the “Medicare for All” vision of Sanders. She attempted to maintain that she had fought as Attorney General of California for average citizens against predatory monetary institutions, but that was Warren’s turf.
Her try to position herself as a reformer of criminal-justice was undermined by the Party’s activist wing, which referred to her persistent liking for policing and carceral solutions.
In a chaotic race finally decided by Black voters, Harris attracted such little interest and money that she dropped out almost two months before the first primary.
Biden has pledged to designate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Now he has appointed another, a senator who described her political livelihood around campaigns for justice, as Biden’s running mate.
The Harris selection isn’t an ideological promise but a thematic one–to civil-rights practice and politics.
