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08/11/2020

Joe Biden Selects Senator Kamala Harris as Running Mate

The California senator has been serving her state since 2017

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden has selected Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) to be his running mate. Biden made the announcement official in a text to his supporters and later tweeted out the news. 

Harris was sworn in as a senator in 2017 and she was the second African-American woman and first South Asian-American senator in history. She was also California Attorney General, doing so at the same time Biden’s late son, Beau Biden, held the same post in Delaware.

She has been a lifelong public safety and civil rights leader who currently serves on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on the Budget.

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