Nurse, artist get surprise Thanksgiving calls from Kamala Harris

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris dialed several front-line health workers on Thanksgiving, one of whom was a Chicago nurse named Talisa. Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff made a surprise call to Talisa to express their gratitude for her fight against COVID-19.

“You know I just — I wanted to see you to say happy Thanksgiving,” Harris said in her call with Talisa, a video of which she shared on Twitter.

“I’ve been reading about you and just all that you do in service of so many people,” Harris added.

“We won’t be able to get through this without them,” she tweeted.

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She also called a talented California artist who had tweeted a video of himself painting a portrait of the first African-American Vice President-elect of the US.

@KamalaHarris My name is Tyler Gordon and I’m 14 years old and I live in the Bay Area! I painted this picture of you and I hope you like it!!! Please Rt and tag her so that she can see this. Please!!!” the teen artist Tyler Gordon had tweeted ahead of Thanksgiving, Fox4 reported.

A day before Thanksgiving, he got a call from Harris. 

“I am overwhelmed with the magnificence and your artistry, you really have a gift my goodness! I was so touched to see it,” said Harris on the call, a video of which Gordon shared on Twitter.

“It’s a very special thing to be an artist like you are… people you’ll never meet will be touched by the work you do,” she said.

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Both Harris and Gordon are from San Franciso’s Bay Area.

The Vice President-elect said she hoped to meet the artist once she was back in her Oakland hometown.