
9 Reasons to Love Kamala Harris
Throughout her career, Kamala Harris has been a defender of reproductive rights and health care. Her addition to the ticket makes clear that in the White House, a Biden administration would not only protect reproductive rights, but also advance and expand them.
2020 has been a hard year — but if anything, that makes us more excited for this year’s presidential election. With the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris of California as Joe Biden’s nominee for vice president, we might have our greatest-yet reason for optimism about what comes next.
Throughout her career, Kamala Harris has been a defender of reproductive rights and health care. She has stood up for the principle that when it comes to our health, our bodies, and our futures, WE decide, not politicians. And she has stood up for communities — especially people of color and those with low-incomes — hit hard by the Trump-Pence agenda of less access to abortion, birth control, and health care.
Biden’s selection of Harris makes it clear that in the White House, their administration would not only protect reproductive rights — but also advance and expand them. That’s reason enough to get excited about Harris, but let’s not stop there. Here come nine more!
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1. Breaking Barriers
As the first Black woman AND the first Asian American to join the presidential ticket of a major party, Harris lives — and has thrived — at the intersection of multiple identities. She’s also the child of first-generation immigrants, with a Tamil heritage through her mother and a Jamaican lineage through her father.
7. Protecting the Federal Courts
As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Harris subjected Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to tough scrutiny of his record on reproductive rights and freedoms — and asked one question that left Kavanaugh near speechless.
9. Dancing. And Drumlines.
Enough said.