Take a look back at a selection of US Vice President Kamala Harris' many speeches. The VP is known for making gaffes and 'word salads' in this selection of her most memorable speeches.
MAILONLINE DEEP DIVE: Kamala Harris is descended from an owner of 120-plus slaves who ran a Jamaican plantation and fought against the abolition of the abhorrent trade, a British historian claimed today.
Northern Irish historian Stephen McCracken said today that Brown was a 'notorious' slaver and 'not nice fellow' who was born in Antrim but later settled in Jamaica. A plantation in Saint Ann Parish, where ancestor Hamilton Brown settled from Northern Ireland. Kamala's father grew up in the same area of Jamaica
It is not uncommon for African Americans or people of Caribbean heritage to be descended from a slave owners. This is because it was common for slave masters to rape their female slaves. Kamala's own story is equally extraordinary. She rose to Vice-President after being California's attorney general and a US senator having originally been a local prosecutor in Alameda County, California, in the early 1990s.
'Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker. And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco', Brown said in 2019 at the ripe age of 86. Howard student: Kamala Harris was at the Washington D.C. college known as the 'black Harvard' when she and friend Gwen Whitfield took part in an anti-apartheid protest in November 1982
Now the Republican nominee insists she will be even easier to defeat than Joe Biden, declaring: 'She's so f***ing bad. She's so pathetic'. He has also called her 'as crazy as a bed bug' and has given her the nickname: 'Laffin' Kamala Harris'. The Clintons have said they will give their 'full endorsement' to Kamala Harris - but the Obamas are yet to decide publicly.Describing her own attitude to life she once said: 'Sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open, and sometimes they won't— and then you need to kick that f***ing door down'.
Her home town and nearby Berkeley were at the heart of the racial and social justice movements of the time, and Ms Harris was both a product and a beneficiary. Her opponents argue that letting her run for high office would amount to admitting defeat. As a result, challengers to a Harris nomination are bound to come forward.Kamala Harris on a family trip from the west coast to New York in September 1966, where she was photographed in Harlem
In 2002, she challenged San Francisco's incumbent district attorney, the progressive Terence Hallinan, who was her former boss. She quit the office - known for it disorganization and low conviction rates - and launched her campaign against him. Her tenure as the city's top cop was not without controversy, particularly a case that made national news.
Read More The Simpsons predicted it again! Fans go wild over viral meme comparing Kamala Harris in purple suit to Lisa's presidential look from THAT eerie year 2000 episode After graduating, Ms Harris returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for law school and chose a career as a prosecutor, a move that surprised her activist family.
The episode did not stop her political ascent. In late 2007, while still serving as district attorney, she was knocking on doors in Iowa for then-candidate Barack Obama.Once elected to statewide office, she pledged to uphold the death penalty despite her moral opposition to it. She refused to defend Proposition 8, a voter-backed initiative banning same-sex marriage.
But during her time on the job, she also forged a fortuitous relationship with Beau Biden, Joe Biden's son who was then Delaware's attorney general. Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015, and his friendship with Ms Harris figured heavily years later as his father chose Ms Harris to be his running mate.
Now happily married to entertainment lawyer Doug Emhoff, Harris has little to say about Brown and does not mention his name once in her 2019 memoir, The Truths We Hold Advertisement Eight months later, Mr Biden selected Ms Harris as his running mate. As he introduced her to the nation, Mr Biden reflected on what her nomination meant for 'little black and brown girls who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities'.
Ms Harris eventually carved out a role as the administration's most outspoken advocate for reproductive rights after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark case that had guaranteed abortion access nationwide. The Vice President, 59, thanked Mr Biden for his 'extraordinary leadership' and for making a 'selfless and patriotic act' by stepping aside from the race for the White House.
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