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Kamala Harris hometown wakes up from 'national nightmare' as she becomes US vice president

Oakland / Berkeley (EFE).- Oakland and Berkeley, the cities where Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris grew up, woke up on Saturday from a "long national nightmare" and found out that the rest of the country, normally wary of their progressive ways, has elected their daughter to the second-highest office in the United States."When Richard (Nixon) resigned in 74, his replacement, Gerald Ford, said in his first speech: 'My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.' Today we feel the same, the national nightmare of the last four years has finally ended," Don Wohlfeiler told EFE. (Camera: MARK ARCAS).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE CELEBRATE THE VICTORY OF JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS INOAKLAND AND BERKELEY, CARLIFORNIA, US.SOUND BITE: DAN WOHLFEILER, BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN'S VOLUNTEER (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: - When Richard (Nixon) resigned in 74, his replacement, Gerald Ford, said in his first speech: 'My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.' Today we feel the same, the national nightmare of the last four years has finally ended. - That we would be represented in the White House by a Black woman, with roots in India, progressive, born here, believing in the values of equality and health that we have here, and with a basic ethic: this is something that was impossible to imagine during the last four years.