With @JoeBiden's win, for the first time in history Kamala Devi Harris – a Black American, Asian American and a woman, will take her destined chair in the second highest office of the United States of America.
It is yet another feather in the cap for Harris, who has lived up to America’s favourite cliches for Asian immigrant families: from being a top student to an overachiever every step of the way in her three-decade long career.
With Joe Biden taking lead in Pennsylvania, it’s all over for Donald Trump and the 77-year old Biden is set to take his place in the White House.
And Harris, who is Biden’s running mate, will be the Vice President-elect of the US.
And at 56, she also holds the possibility of running for office for the next term as initially, Harris ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination herself.
Even though she kept her roots in India alive and has visited the country several times, Harris’s cancer researcher and activist mother Shyamala Gopalan had adopted Oakland's black culture.
The Harris legacy
Harris is married to lawyer Douglass Emhoff, who will now be America’s first-ever second-gentleman.
Her father Donald Harris was an Economics professor while her sister Maya, who has been one of her biggest supporters, was earlier a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton during her presidential fight in 2016.
Maya has also worked with the Ford Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.
.@KamalaHarris has also famously said that she has always been inspired by her grandfather PV Gopalana, an Indian freedom-fighter, who became a civil servant and was assigned by the Indian govt to help Zambia deal with its refugee problem in the late 1960s, according to the IANS.
During her time at the Senate, Harris has been famous for her fearless and feisty line of questioning during hearings. Prominent figures like Attorney General Bill Barr and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have found themselves at the other end of her prosecutorial questions.
Kamala Harris on the key issues of America
On healthcare
Harris had been a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders' 2017 Medicare for All bill but soon backed out of it. She’s now with Biden, who supports former US President Barack Obama’s Obamacare, the affordable care act.
On abortion
Harris has maintained her stance that she is for women’s rights. “I will always fight for a woman’s right to make a decision over her own body. It should be her decision, not that of Donald Trump or Mike Pence,” she had said during the Vice President’s debate.
On Taxation
Harris has outrightly said that if elected to power she will get rid of Trump’s tax cuts.
The bench clarified that the direction would apply to all cities and towns in the country where the average of ambient air quality during November fell under the 'poor' and above categories.
.@virginhyperloop became the first company to successfully transport humans in a magnetically levitating pod, through a tube at over 160 kilometers per hour. The test took place at Virgin Hyperloop’s DevLoop test track in the #Nevada desert.
The company’s CTO, #JoshGeigel, and Director of Passenger Experience #SaraLuchian are officially the first two people to have experienced the new form of ultra-fast transportation. Making history, both of them strapped themselves into the hyperloop pod.
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A huge blow for #AntGroup and #JackMa as his $34 billion IPO has hit a hurdle with the Shanghai Stock Exchange suspending its listing. Ant was set to begin trading on Hong Kong exchanges on November 5.
“Recently, it happened that your company’s actual controller, chairman and general manager were jointly conducted supervisory interviews by relevant departments, and your company also reported on major issues such as changes in the financial technology regulatory environment..."