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‘Immediately thought of my mother when Joe Biden made the V-P call’: Kamala Harris

  • The 55-year-old Senator has many times talked about the impact her mother had on her
  • Her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris migrated to the US as a 19-year-old young graduate from India
  • Harris recounted how she and her team got a call that Biden wanted to talk

Written by:Chandandeep
Published: September 15, 2020 02:31:33 Washington D.C., DC, USA

US Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris said she when former vice president Joe Biden offered her to be his running mate for the November presidential elections, she thought of her mother “immediately”.

India-origin Senator Harris became the first black, first African-American and Indian-American to be a vice-presidential candidate for a major political party. Her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris migrated to the US as a 19-year-old young graduate from India in 1957 for higher studies, according to PTI.

The 55-year-old Senator, in multiple interviews, has reflected on the impact her mother had on where she is now. “I thought immediately of my mother and what she must be thinking as she looks down on us,” Harris said in response to a question during a fund raiser.

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“What was it like to get that Zoom call from Joe Biden (last month),” she was asked.

She recounted how she and her team got a call that Biden wanted to talk. She got another call where she was told Biden wanted to do a zoom call. “I went to our little makeshift office and then when the call started Biden immediately asked me to join the ticket,” said Kamala.

After referring to her mother, Harris also described how husband Doug Emhoff’s ear was on the door outside the room listening in on the call. Eventually Jill Biden and Emhoff joined the call with Biden and Harris.

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When asked how she will present her and Biden’s vision for the first 100 days, Harris said the first thing is to “get the virus under control.” “Specifically, we will create a pandemic board that will oversee testing. So that’s about distribution, it’s about testing is happening in an efficient manner. It’s also about making sure we are investing in the tests that are most relevant in the tests that we are trying to accomplish, so for example rapid testing,” she said.

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