Back on campaign trail, Kamala Harris dances in the rain
Press Trust of India
Rain or shine, democracy waits for no one, says Kamala Harris, the US Democratic Party’s vice-presidential candidate for the November 3 election, as she is seen lightly dancing in the rain addressing voters in Florida in a video which has gone viral on social media.
“Rain or shine, democracy waits for no one,” Harris, 55, said in a tweet along with a picture of herself dancing in the rain with an umbrella over her as supporters cheer her along in Jacksonville, Florida.
Harris resumed her election campaign on Monday, having paused it for a few days after two aides tested positive for Covid-19.
“When we vote, we win,” Harris told carloads of people who covered a rain-soaked parking area behind a University of North Florida conference center in Orlando
Harris stressed on Florida’s importance for the presidential race and said the state’s voters “are very likely going to decide” the contest.
Earlier, she stopped at the Jacksonville Public Library’s Highlands branch to greet people casting early ballots there.
“I’m so excited to be back in Florida for early voting,” she told reports, as she headed towards people leaving the library. “It is so important,” she told people who had just cast ballots. “Thank you for voting early,” she said.
Niece draws flak for tweet of Harris as Durga Hindu groups in the US sought an apology from Harris’s niece Meena Harris for tweeting an image, which depicted her as goddess Durga.
The tweet has now been deleted.
“Your tweeting a caricature of the feminine divine, Maa Durga, with faces superimposed, deeply aggrieved many Hindus globally,” Suhag A Shukla of the Hindu American Foundation said in a tweet on Monday.
HAF has issued a guideline for commercial use of images relating to the religion.
Rishi Bhutada of the Hindu American Political Action Committee said the “offensive” picture was not created by Meena Harris herself.
It had been circulating on WhatsApp prior to her tweet and the Biden campaign confirmed to him that the image was not created by it.