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Kamala Harris accepted her place in history on Saturday night with a speech honoring the women who she said “paved the way for this moment tonight”, when the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants would stand before the nation as the vice-president-elect of the United States.
With her ascension to the nation’s second highest office, Harris, 56, will become the first woman and the first woman of color to be elected vice president, a reality that shaped her speech and brought tears to the eyes of many women and girls watching from the hoods of their cars in the parking lot of a convention center in Wilmington, Delaware.
Here’s a reminder of the highlights from the speeches given last night by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as they were projected to be the winners of the 2020 US election. They offered a message of unity.
Harris, who will be the first woman to be vice-president, paid tribute to her mother. For Biden, his speech was an opportunity to offer an olive branch to his political rivals after nearly four years of division under Donald Trump. He called for Republicans and Democrats to decide to co-operate, instead of deciding not to co-operate. He’ll know that scene only too well from the final years of the Obama presidency.
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