2024-08-21 20:45:57
The political history of USA It is full of apparent meteoric events after which, in fact, there is always a long path that is laid out little by little, with calculated steps, efforts and partnerships, setbacks and setbacks but a guided decision through the eye to the target. Today, that is accident es Kamala Harris.
The Vice President closes this Thursday in the night Democratic National Convention in Chicago with the formal acceptance of speech of the presidential election of the party for The elections of November 5, who are you? can mide a donald trump and she was conceived just one month after that Joe Biden’s resignation. It represents a key moment in this remarkable work.
It is an opportunity for Harris to show not only to the Democrats, but to the whole country and the world, shis personal history, his vision and his political opinionelement that marks a new order for the Democratic Party and, again, reaffirm those emancipation of a 59 year-old woman get used to marking important events now forcefully knock on the doors of Historywith capital letters.
The smile
Harris, 59, has returned to Democratic politics, falling asleep at the age of 81. smile without complexwe had eager who is at home and a project that is connected with the ideas of “hope” and “change” marked the campaign of another president who broke the racial barrier in the Oval Office: Barack Obama.
The country’s first black president was his Friend and friend since 2004 He organized a fundraising event in California for his Senate race and in 2008 he was one of the first Democratic officials elected to go all out to take it to the White House. There Obama discovered a woman “smart as hell.”
Personal history
Like Obama, Harris comes from a mixed familyin his case two immigrants: a Jamaican father, left-wing economist, and one Mother India, bioscientist. That mother is the woman who, after moving to several states in the country and getting divorced in the 70s, returned to California and fought like no other middle class to carry and carry the vice president and his younger sister, Maya, alone.
He likes to remember that in his childhood he spent most of his time living in it rent. He also remembers his mother saving for more than ten years until she managed to buy a house when she was young. And he also talks about his job McDonald’s to get some money for expenses, in a place where you see people living “paycheck to paycheck, with two or even three jobs to be able to pay rent and food.”
Like the former president, Harris has lived for decades World politics is dominated by white menA life that in your case you have entered after going through the Howard Universityone of the historic schools for blacks and after graduation from Right in the California State University. Then they get a job in a the prosecutor’s officethem first victory in the elections as a lawyer of San Francisco in 2003 and, later, milestones and more climbing: it is the California’s first black attorney general. When in 2019 he made a disappointing attempt to be a presidential candidate that disappeared even before the Iowa primaries, he voluntarily left his history in those positions in the background. Today, facing a Republican opponent who is also a criminal convictionhe uses it like a important asset, like a medal of honor.
Harris also arrived Elder in Washington, where he he excelled as an interrogator do for ua star for progressives. And, after a failed presidential campaign, he was chosen by Biden as the The first black vice president with roots in Asia in US history.
Those three and a half years in Biden’s shadow have been, possibly, the least of Harris’s public life, ask as absent and not important in the office that is rare in the results, con speak mission tasked with leading a regretful effort to resurrect the voting rights that Republicans and a conservative Supreme Court have pushed back or, above all, address the root causes of immigration in Central Americaalways a political time bomb in the US.
Some of them physical misstepseven an interview early during Biden’s term specifically about immigration, changed him careful. But when the spotlight isn’t on him, Harris is still making his way, turning to foreign policy with dozens of trips and hundreds of meetings with foreign leaders, And when the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional protection of the right to abortion, it became passion and efficiency inside the Administration’s most important voice to lead the fight for reproductive rights. ‘
Harris, who was the deputy and now as the candidate is gone leaving behind some of its most progressive positions (such as universal healthcare or the veto on ‘fracking’), he is not noted for his rhetoric but for its power in small moments. Four weeks ago, however, it seems more and more comfortable and more happy. He has said what Trump and Republicans attack about him to assets in his favor. And he may not speak like his friends, the Obamas, who on Tuesday at the conference raised their candidacy while destroying Trump, but he managed to connect. And there is something ethereal about it: as they wrote in ‘The New Yorker’, “Those gestures, and that smile, ask you to trust what you see more than what you hear.”
What can be, without the weight of what has been
The conference, before telling its own story, has also served other things to show this woman who is still a the great unknown for many Americans. And, in addition to the Obamas, few have helped to do better than Doug Emhoff, her husband of 1.0 years (anniversary that falls exactly this Thursday), and Cole, one of two children from his first marriage for whom Harris is ‘carry‘. “We may not be like other White House families, but we areis created to represent all families in the United States” said his mother’s son.
Emhoff, who met her after she gave him her phone number for a blind date, described her Tuesday as a “joyful warrior.”“and he assured us that “he is doing the same thing for his country for the people he loves.” He spoke of him as someone with “enthusiasm” of him “Seek justice with joyy “He stood up to the killers”. He defended that “Your sadness is your strength.”
Shepard Fairey, the same graphic artist who created Obama’s iconic ‘Hope’ poster, has now created a version for Harris where the central word is “Ahead”. and that more than a slogan for the Democratic campaign, for the candidate, for the country. It is perfect for the woman who makes one of the most repeated and viral phrases, the soft one “Believe in what you can be, regardless of the weight of what you have been”. It has been done.
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