US Elections | Kamala Harris makes history, nominated as Democratic VP candidate

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Published: August 20,2020 11:01 AM

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August 20, 2020: Kamala Harris made history on Wednesday when she accepted the Democratic nomination for Vice President for US elections 2020 at the Democratic National Convention held virtually

August 20, 2020: Kamala Harris made history on Wednesday when she accepted the Democratic nomination for Vice President for US elections 2020 at the Democratic National Convention held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Kamala Harris, the senator from California accepted her nomination from Wilmington, Delaware.

I am honored to accept the nomination for Vice President of the United States. I do so, committed to the values my mother taught me and to a vision that @JoeBiden shares—where all are welcome, no matter what we look like, where we come from, or who we love. #DemConvention
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 20, 2020

She was joined by former US President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who together with Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden, vowed to build an all-inclusive United States.

Harris, the American and also first Indian-American on a major party's White House ticket, accused Trump of turning "our tragedies into political weapons." And she urged Americans to vote for Joe Biden, "a President who will bring all of us together."

She condemned President Donald Trump's profound "failure" as a leader.

Shortly before Harris spoke, America's first black president, Barack Obama, delivered his own condemnation of Trump -- and appeal for Biden's election.

Obama said that on handing over the White House to Trump in 2017, he thought the Republican "might show some interest in taking the job seriously; that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care."

"But he never did," Obama said.

Biden, who faces Trump on November 3, is due to give his own acceptance speech on Thursday, closing a Democratic convention held wholly online and on television due to coronavirus safety precautions.