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'Great respect for her': Buzz grows about Kamala Harris as Biden's VP pick

Joe Biden was photographed accidentally displaying a list of favourable talking points about her.

A file photo of Kamala Harris	(Photo: Reuters)
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Kamala Devi Harris is the daughter of an Indian American mother from Tamil Nadu and a Jamaican African father.

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Speculation swirled around US Senator Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic Party candidate for vice president after Joe Biden, who is to be the presidential candidate, was photographed accidentally displaying a list of favourable talking points about her.

The first item under her name was "Do not hold grudges," a possible reference to her attacks on Biden over his civil rights record during the Democratic Party presidential debate last year when she was also seeking the party nomination.

That confrontation, which saw Harris's standing in the poll momentarily rise while Biden's fell, had been mentioned as one of the points against

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