‘Female Obama’ ready to take on Trump
DURING her career as a criminal prosecutor, Kamala Harris made her name going after sexual predators, corrupt businessmen and perpetrators of fraud.
So, given who presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, is seeking to beat in this November’s US election, the Californian Senator was for many, a natural choice.
Known as “the female Obama”, to Harris’s supporters there is no one better to take on Donald Trump.
And ever since becoming only the second black woman in the Senate – the first to appear on a major party’s presidential ticket – she has made no secret of her disdain for the President.
“I know predators, and we have a predator living in the White House,” she once said of the man whose view of women was to “grab ’em”.
Menacingly, Harris, 55, later added she had built her “career of going after predators”.
Now with 82 days left before America goes to the polls, she has Trump firmly in her crosshairs.
After taking her seat in the Senate following her election in 2016, she has steadfastly refused to cower to the billionaire laying out, as she calls it, his “rap sheet”.
Openly recounting the accusations of sexual misconduct against Trump – which he has denied – Harris attacks his business practices as well as the “10 counts of obstruction of justice” she claims he has committed.
Known for her intimidating style of questioning offset by her billboard smile Harris once famously said of the US leader: “He claims to be the best president we’ve seen in a generation. Well, I say, ‘Let’s call Barack Obama’, ‘cause that’s identity fraud.”
Biden’s decision to choose Harris as his running mate came amid intense pressure from Democrats not only to pick a female, but to pick a woman of colour.
In the past two years, Harris has risen to become visible to the American electorate through her famed viral clips of her performances on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Her take downs of Trump’s cronies have left Republicans fearing to debate her.
Millions watched her cross-examination of the President’s controversial supreme court pick, Judge Brett