“Happy Warrior” is a term that has been applied to past Democratic candidates, including Joe Biden. On Wednesday, Harris stepped into the role.
Photo: Getty Images Standing behind the podium after hard-hitting speeches from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi — and perhaps in the shadow of a peerless address from Michelle Obama on Monday — vice-presidential nominee and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris was probably wise to simply introduce herself to the country and enter the general election arena.
[M]y mother…Shyamala Gopalan Harris….came here from India at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. At the University of California Berkeley, she met my father, Donald Harris—who had come from Jamaica to study economics.They fell in love in that most American way—while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.In the streets of Oakland and Berkeley, I got a stroller’s-eye view of people getting into what the great John Lewis called “good trouble….
The traditional attack-dog role of vice-presidential nominees is one that Harris will likely soon adopt. But on this night when the last Democratic president took up the task of gravely accusing Donald Trump of unfitness for office and contempt for the constitution and democracy, she didn’t need to hurl any brickbats, other than this one sweeping accusation:
That’s a line we are likely to hear again, and Harris is in a better position to deliver it than her 77-year-old white running-mate.
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