More than a decade ago, a journalist called Kamala Harris “female Obama”. However, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants failed to match the achievement of first African-American president Barack Obama.
The Democratic leader’s defeat to her Republican rival Donald Trump in a bitterly contested election shattered her dream to become the first woman President of the US. But her nomination enthused women that this door in public life is not closed to them.
Harris, 60, has known other firsts, though. She has been the district attorney for San Francisco — the first woman, first African-American and first Indian-origin person to be elected to the position.
As vice president, she is the first woman to hold the post. Also, she happens to be the first African-American or Indian-American person to make it there.
Her nomination fulfilled her presidential dreams, which she abandoned before the primaries in 2019 due to a lack of funds to continue her campaign.
Biden picked her as his running mate in 2016. She was just the third woman to be picked as the vice president nominee on a major party ticket.
And she was one of only three Asian Americans in the Senate and the first Indian-American ever to serve in the chamber.
She has been likened to Barack Obama, the countryās first Black President.
More than a decade ago, journalist Gwen Ifill called Harris “the female Barack Obama” on the “Late Show With David Letterman”. Later, a small businessman from Willoughby, Tony Pinto, called her “a young, female version of the president”.