It’s Official: Kamala Harris Is The First Black Woman Nominated for Vice-President

Vice-Presidential candidate Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination Wednesday night, the first Black woman included on a major party ticket as the vice-presidential candidate and only the third woman to do so in political history.

Harris began her speech with a tribute to her deceased mother who believed “public service is a noble cause.”

“I accept your nomination for Vice-President, and I do so committed to the values she taught me, to the Word that teaches me to walk by faith and not by sight and to a vision passed on by generations of Americans and one that Joe Biden shares,” Harris stated.

Harris said with Biden as President, “We stand with our allies and stand up to our adversaries. Right now we have a president who turns our challenges into political weapons.”

On the third night of the convention, the Democrats brought out the power hitters, including former President Barack Obama.

“What we do these next 76 days will echo through the generations to come,” the 43rd President said. 

When Obama chose Biden as his vice-president 12 years ago, Obama said he didn’t expect to get a “brother” but he and Biden have become close friends. 

“He made me a better President,” the first African American president said, adding that Harris has “made a career fighting to help others live out their own American dream.”

Obama cautioned, “Do not let them take away your power. Do not let them take away your democracy.”

The Democratic Party’s virtual convention began Monday night with speeches from Senator Bernie Sanders who pledged his support to Joe Biden in April unlike in 2016 when the former presidential candidate waited until two weeks before the convention to endorse Hillary Clinton. 

It was also Monday night when Former First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a take down of President Donald Trump with the searing assessment, “He is in over his head.”

Tonight, several prominent Democratic women stood in the spotlight. Among them were 2008 and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren.

“I wish Donald Trump knew how to be a president because America needs a president right now,” Clinton said. 

Clinton warned Americans to vote early and in overwhelming numbers, recalling that she received three million more votes in 2016 than Trump, but he won the Electoral College. Dressed in the symbolic white worn by the suffagists who earned the right to vote through the 19th Amendment which passed100 years ago yesterday, Clinton said to voters who did not vote or regret voting for Trump, “Look, this can’t be another woulda coulda shoulda election.”

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren touted a roster of plans the Biden/Harris ticket will propose. She mentioned the importance of childcare which she described as “infrastructure for families.” Warren also encouraged Americans to vote, saying the coronavirus has been Trump’s biggest test and he “failed miserably.”

Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden will speak Thursday night.