U.S election: Kamala Harris Poised To Make History As She Accepts VP Nomination

Kamala Harris is poised to make history on Wednesday as the first Black woman to accept a spot on a major party’s presidential ticket, a moment intended to galvanize Democratic voters heading into the fall campaign against U.S. President Donald Trump.

This will be her second time speaking to the Democratic National Convention. But the stakes are higher than ever before as Harris tries to unite the party behind its presidential candidate, Joe Biden, while also introducing herself to a national audience who may be tuning into the campaign for the first time.

“For somebody with her wealth of background and experience, she’s still fresh. She’s still new,” said Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge, a former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus who endorsed Harris’ own 2020 presidential primary run before formally throwing her support behind Biden in March. “I think people are looking for that.”

The daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris has shined in key moments before.

She was lauded for drawing a crowd of 20,000 to the announcement of the start of her presidential campaign in Oakland last year. Her subsequent tough questioning of two Trump nominees, Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court justice and Bill Barr for attorney general, during Senate confirmation proceedings was a similar high point, as was her broadsiding Biden during a debate over his opposition to busing in the 1970s to integrate public schools.