15 Reasons Why America Need Kamala Harris as President
15 Reasons Why America Need Kamala Harris as President
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When there is talk about 2024 Presidential Election in America and everyone around the world is keeping an eye on this election. Kamala Harris has been nominated by Democratic Party following present president
Joe Biden withdrawal due to increasing age and health concerns. Though there are several candidates, most of the eyes are on Kamala Harris from Democratic Party and former president Donald Trump from Republican Party.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris is a presidential candidate from Democratic Party in 2024 presidential election. Born to a Jamaican American father and Indian mother, Kamala belongs to a mix descent and will the first African American woman president if wins the election. Kamala holds a degree in Legal Education Opportunity Program from University of California College of the Law and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1989.
In an interview with American kids, she explained how she would deal with the situation and would be an inspiration to all of them to join politics in their later life.
Lesser known facts about Kamala Harris
- She is the first female vice president, as well as the highest-ranking female official in the history of the United States. Also, she is the first African American and first South Asian American vice president.
- Harris was interested in politics and was aware of the need for to fight for right since she was a child. She successfully led the protest of the children of her age when she was just 13 to allow them to play in her apartment’s front lawn.
- She was raised multi-cultured. Being a child of an Indian Hindu mother and Jamaican-American Christian father, she attended both Hindu temple and Black Baptist church. It is estimated that if she will be the president, she will respect other cultures and there will be equality in society in her rule.
- Harris has faced racism as a child, and other children who used to live near her father’s apartment in Palo Alto were not allowed to play with Kamala and her sister Maya because they were black.
- She is the first Black woman to work as District Attorney of San Francisco and became an inspiration for other Black women to follow the legal profession.
- The presidential candidate has a huge interest in literature, and Richard Wright’s Native Son and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club being her favorite.
- Friendship with influential people. She was a good friend of former president Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s late son Beau Biden. Harris admitted that she has learned a lot with her friendship with Beau Biden and Barack Obama.
- She worked on strict gun control laws as a senator, which is very essential to secure the future of the America.
- Harris is against the death penalty and believes that life imprisonment without parole is more cost-effective punishment than the death penalty.
- In the growing digital world, Harris announced an agreement with most popular American companies including Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft to make it compulsory that the apps sold in their stores should display prominent privacy policies informing users of what information they were sharing and with whom.
- The Presidential candidate is also a good chef and enjoys cooking Indian cuisine whenever she gets time.
- She was successful, imposing a ban on the gay and trans panic defense in court. She also appealed in favor of gender-affirming surgery request given by an imprisoned transgender woman.
- Harris also worked to control sex trafficking and created the eCrime Unit within the California Department of Justice.
- Harris announced that she will protect immigrants and would never support any decision which separate children from their parents.
- She is also popular for her sharp questioning. Her questions from then Attorney General Jeff Sessions made him speechless.
Former US President
Barack Obama and his wife
Michelle Obama tweeted in support of Kamala Harris.