Time. Shes more than prepared and spent her career defending our constitution and fighting for folk whose need a fair shake. Her own life story is one i and so many other ks ss can see ours in, who you worship or love there is a place for you here. Its a perspective that led us out of the hardest times before and a perspective we can all rally behind right now. Lets get more from jeff zeleny. Were learning about how this decision came about. Anderson, good evening. Were learning new details and told about 90 minutes before this announcement was made, about 4 15 or so here in the east, so about 2 45 or so senator harris was at her washington condo and received a phone call with a job offer from former Vice President joe biden. They have been talking throughout this process and had at least one meeting we know of, a Virtual Meeting before this but it was an offer of a job to join the president ial ticket, the democratic ticket there. This is the end of what had been a threemonth process
Historic arc of this country. A short time ago, joe biden chose senator Kamala Harris of california to be his running mate for the democratic president ial ticket. She is the first black woman, the first Asian American woman, the first candidate whose marriage is multiracial. Harris is the product of an American Dream that began beyond these shores. Her mother and father, both immigrants, from india and jamaica respectively, not only rose to prominent positions in academia, but marched in the civil rights movement, giving what harris has controlled a strollereye view of activism from a young age. President obama said in part, ive known senator harris for a long time, shes more than prepared for the job, she spent her career defending her constitution and fighting for folks who need a fair shake, her own story is one that i and many others can see themselves in. No matter where you come from, what you look like, how you worship, who you love, theres a place for you here. I its a fundame