Harris slams Don for leadership failure, vows to fight for nation
Republican leader ‘turns our tragedies into political weapons’: V-P nominee
Washington, Aug. 20: Senator Kamala Harris has scripted history as she became the first IndianAmerican and also the first PoC woman to accept the nomination for vicepresident from a major political party in the US. Harris, 55, was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate on Wednesday at the virtual Democratic National Convention where she attacked President Donald Trump’s for “failure of leadership” and blamed the Republican leader for the “lives and livelihoods” of the American people amidst the Coronavirus pandemic.
“I accept your nomination for vice president of the United States of America,” she said while accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination to be the running mate of the presidential candidate Joe Biden. In her acceptance speech, Harris paid tribute to the PoC women that came before her and she vowed to fight for the nation. “Let’s fight with conviction. Let’s fight with hope. Let’s fight with confidence in ourselves, and a commitment to each other,” she said.
In reference to her Indian heritage, Harris used a Tamil expression in speaking of “my uncles, my aunts — my chitthis”. Harris said she was there standing on her mother’s shoulders, a woman who “came here from India at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. At the University of California, Berkeley, she met my father, Donald Harris — who had come from Jamaica to study economics”.
She assailed Trump’s “failure of leadership”. She said the Republican leader “turns our tragedies into political weapons”. Former vice president Joe Biden and Harris will challenge Trump and his Vice-President Mike Pence in the November 3 election. “We must elect a president who will bring something different, something better, and do the
important work. A president who will bring all of us together to achieve the future we collectively want,” Harris said, making a passionate plea before Americans to vote them to power.
“We must elect Joe Biden. I knew Joe as Vice President. I knew Joe on the campaign trail. But I first got to know Joe as the father of my friend,” she said. “And here’s the thing: We can do better and deserve so much more,” she said. “Joe will bring us together to build an economy that doesn’t leave anyone behind. Where a good-paying job is the floor, not the ceiling.”