Hello, I'm James Reynolds. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. In BBC

OS conversations we bring people together to share their experiences and this time

it's conversations with supporters of Carmelah Harris.

So could a woman of color become the next president of the United States?

Well that's what much of America has been asking over the past few days.

And that question is at the heart of our discussions in this episode, including a chat with three black female supporters.

My daughter actually looks similar to her. She's actually gone to Halloween parties as

Camilla Harris. She has she's warned the chucks and pearls and I just look at her and she's like how do I look mom am I come out you know?

You know?

Things can move pretty faster in politics but the United States hasn't seen anything quite like this in recent times,

not perhaps since the turbulent year of 1968.

A month ago, Americans watched Joe Biden's faltering debate performance against his rival Donald Trump

and the performance raised questions over the president's fitness to run again for the White House.

Then two weeks ago Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.

He was then confirmed as the Republican Party's nominee for the November election at a triumphant

national convention. You can hear more of our conversations about that in last week's

edition. And then things didn't stop last Sunday. President Biden posted on

social media that he was standing down as a candidate and he immediately

endorsed his vice president Carmelah Harris a former public prosecutor as the

Democratic Party's nominee and two days later Miss Harris and her team secured the support she needed in the

party not to mention more than a hundred million dollars of donations.

Here she is addressing a crowd of supporters in Wisconsin, one of the states you pretty much need to win in order to become US President.

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