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Joe Biden selects Kamala Harris as running mate - She is the first African American woman to run for vice president.
By Itzhak Rabihiya
In-depth: California senator has often come out in defense of Israel, opposed conditioning aid on change in West Bank policy; Democratic vice presidential hopeful, who has Jewish husband, has also been vocal on her belief in Israel's right to defend itself – Ynet news reports today
Senator Kamala Harris, named on Tuesday as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate, is considered a friend of Israel, who on many occasions during her time in Washington had emphasized the need for support for bipartisan support for the country.
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has selected Kamala Harris as his running mate, becoming the first African American woman to run for this position. "I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked Kamala Harris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate," Biden said in a tweet on Tuesday night.
Like Biden, she has often come out in defense of Israel and had opposed conditioning aid to Israel on a change in policy in the West Bank, an idea voiced by more progressive Democratic lawmakers such as Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders.
The 55-year-old is a senator for California, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India. She is married to Jewish lawyer Douglas Emhoff, and is stepmother to his two Jewish children from a previous marriage.
“Look at my own life, where a daughter of a South Asian mother and a Jamaican father concluded her own interfaith wedding with her husband, breaking glass and everyone yelling mazal tov,” she told the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC in 2017.
US President Donald Trump quickly reacted to Harris's selection in a statement, reminding the public that "not long ago, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist and asked for an apology she never received. Clearly, Phony Kamala will abandon her own morals, as well as try to bury her record as a prosecutor, in order to appease the anti-police extremists controlling the Democrat Party."
Photo : Kamala Harris - wikipedia
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