2024-08-23 03:46:54
The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, made history this Thursday by receiving the Democratic Party’s nomination for the White House, becoming the first African-American woman and the first person of South Asian origin to do so.
“On behalf of all those whose history can only be written in the greatest country on Earth, I accept your nomination to be the President of the United States,” Harris said.
His words were received with thunderous cheers and cheers by thousands of people gathered at the United Center stadium in Chicago, where this week’s Democratic National Convention was held, which reached its conclusion today with Harris’ speech in officially. candidate.
When Harris looked up he could see hundreds of women dressed in white, the color that unites the candidates and with which they want to show that their opponents are not aggressive, in addition to showing purity, morality and justice in the fight they.
So far, only one woman has won the Democratic presidential nomination: Hillary Clinton, who chose in 2016 for white to accept the candidate at the congress held in Philadelphia.
Harris, dressed in a dark blue suit, used his speech, broadcast live on the country’s main television networks, to tell his personal story, criticize the Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump, and explain his main political proposals.
The vice president became a candidate in an unusual way because, unlike the previous candidates, he did not conduct a primary process.
The Democratic Party primaries were won by US President Joe Biden, who had no serious rivals, but on July 21 he announced that he was ending his campaign for the presidency after receiving pressure from his party for a disastrous performance in a televised debate. to Trump.
Biden then called on the party to unite around Harris, and many of the delegates who had been elected during the primary process quickly gave him their support.
At the beginning of the month, they voted in favor of his candidacy in a virtual vote and on Tuesday, the second day of the convention, they endorsed him as the Democratic candidate. EFE
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