Kamala Harris declared that the United States is “crying out for leadership” in her first joint appearance Wednesday with Joe Biden as his pick for vice president on the Democratic ticket.
Kamala Harris made her campaign-trail debut as Joe Biden’s vice-presidential running mate for the Democrats, criticising president Donald Trump for mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic and making an urgent argument for a Biden administration.
Harris, a US senator from California, quickly leapt to the attack on Trump, saying he had endangered Americans by not taking the pandemic seriously, plunging the US into an economic crisis even as it wrestles with racial and social injustice.
‘As somebody who has presented my fair share of arguments in court, the case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence is open and shut,’ Harris said.
“The case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence is open and shut,” said the former California attorney general, in a speech alongside Biden in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
As the first woman of color to be a presidential running mate for a major US party, Harris said the country in particular needed to face up to the enduring problem of racism.
“We’re experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country demanding change,” she said.❐
