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US Prez elections: Who is Kamala Harris, Biden's pick for vice president?

With less than 90 days until the election, Harris's selection is bound to excite many Democratic voters and bring intense scrutiny from President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters

US Senator Kamala Harris. (Photo: Bloomberg)
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The 55-year-old Harris is the middle-class daughter of an Indian-born endocrinologist and a Jamaican-born economics professor

Bryan Cranston | The Conversation
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has announced Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 election — the first woman of colour to appear on a major party ticket.
On the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment of the US constitution, which granted women the right to vote, Harris also becomes the third woman to be selected as a major party vice presidential candidate after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Sarah Palin in 2008.
With less than 90 days until the election, Harris’s selection is bound to excite many Democratic voters and

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