Will she, won’t she, will she, won’t she run for President of the United States of America?
Kamala Harris is not telling. In a recent appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show,the Calfornia Senator did not say if she would, but added that she would not mind being “vetted” by talk show host DeGeneres if she did.
Born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, Harris, 54, is California’s first African-American senator and the first Indian-American in the Congress' upper chamber. She is being looked at as a potential Democratic candidate for the 2020 Presidential elections.
She has been serving as the junior United States Senator since 2017. A lawyer, she was the Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017.
Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a Tamil and a breast cancer researcher in the US. Her father, Donald Harris, was a Stanford University economics professor. Harris was named after the Goddess Lakshmi.
Harris has always stood up for the ideas she believes in: justice, women’s rights, environment. As District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco, in 2004, she stood firm on her decision to not seek death penalty for the murderer of a police officer, alienating the police association.
She has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump.
Her younger sister, Maya Harris, is also a lawyer and was an advisor of Hillary Clinton.
Harris said she will not make any announcement till she tackles more “immediate needs”, such as housing, gas, student loans, gun control and immigration.
When asked who she would like to be stuck alone in an elevator with, Trump, vice president Mike Pence or US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Harris shot back, “Does one of us have to come out alive?”
We also salute her sense of style. We love her dark, elegant skirt suits and the string of pearls. Feminine, beautiful and empowering.