Joe Biden touts Kamala Harris’s record, vision as the two make campaign debut
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his newly chosen running mate Kamala Harris campaigned together for the first time Wednesday, as the former primary rivals sought to solidify their advantage over President Trump and secure their place in American history.
Biden, a 77-year-old white man, embraced the significance of naming the first Black and Indian American woman to a major party’s presidential ticket, but he focused on other attributes Harris brings to the ticket.
He hailed the California senator, the 55-year-old former prosecutor who a year ago excoriated Biden on a primary debate stage, as the right woman to help him defeat Trump and then lead a nation facing crises in triplicate: a pandemic, a wounded economy, and a long-simmering reckoning with systemic racism.
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