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Al Drago/Getty Images The debate between US Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris is Wednesday night. If elected, Harris would be the first woman and the first woman of color to serve as vice president. Because she represents multiple firsts, there's meaningful pressure on Harris to succeed — and there's been heightened scrutiny of her performance during the campaign. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. An earlier version of this story ran in the Gender at Work newsletter.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be making a lot of firsts when she enters the White House in January. She'll be the first Black, Indian, and South Asian to be Vice President--not to mention the first woman. According to Business Insider, black women and girls across America cried and cheered on news of Joe Biden and Harris's victory. Harris's niece tweeted on Saturday that her 4-year-old exclaimed, 'BLACK GIRLS ARE WELCOME TO BE PRESIDENT!' Pat Duncan is sixty years older, and is the national co-chair of Black Women For Biden in Colorado. She says Harris is a unifying force for America. She just showed that the world, especially the United States, is made up of immigrants, but we come together as one people. Pat Duncan, National Co-Chair Black Women For Biden, Colorado
Vice President Kamala Harris says Trump "wants to take America back to 1800s" on abortion in a statement in Tucson, Arizona just days after that southwestern state's conservative supreme court rolled back reproductive rights to the Civil War era, saying an 1864 ban on abortion was valid. SOUNDBITE
Business Insider is reporting that Sen. Kamala Harris is canceling her campaign travel through Sunday. The move came after the Biden/Harris campaign announced two people in her campaign traveling party tested positive for COVID-19. Harris' communications director Liz Allen and a flight crew member recently tested positive for the disease. Harris was not in close contact with either individual. She will still halt in-person campaigning out of an abundance of caution.
Washington, Aug 19 (EFE) .- It was 1986 and 38 black women dreamed of following in the footsteps of the founders of their university sorority: pioneering women capable of changing their reality. Today one of them aspires to be the first vice president of African American and Asian descent in US history. Her name is Kamala Harris and at 55 she has become the electoral duo of the virtual Democratic candidate for the Presidency, Joe Biden, but also the woman who can write a new page for the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), a sorority of African American students founded in 1908 at Howard University in Washington DC, one Harris was a part of.FOOTAGE OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY.SOUNDBITES OF LORRI SADDLER, HARRIS' COLLEAGUE AT THE SORORITY.
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