How Harris Incorporates Biography Into Her Election Pitch

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Kamala Harris often quotes her mother on the campaign trail: "Don't let people tell you who you are. You tell them who you are." Though she would be the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to serve as president, she rarely explicitly talks about the historic nature of her candidacy. Instead, she weaves her identity and biography into her issue-focused campaign message.

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0:06.0	This podcast was recorded at 106 PM on Monday September 23rd, 2024.
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0:14.0	but I'll be a married woman.
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0:28.5	really trying to process what she said and that's very exciting for her. Hey there
0:31.9	it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:34.0	I'm Deiba Shivaram.
0:35.0	I cover the White House.
0:36.0	I'm Tamara Keith.
0:37.0	I also cover the White House.
0:38.0	And I'm Domenical Munniner, our senior political editor and correspondent.
0:41.0	And today on the show, we're going to talk about how identity gets woven into a
0:43.8	political candidate's strategy and what it says about the voters that they're trying to
0:47.7	reach. We've talked about this on the pod before about how Vice President Harris
0:51.3	addresses her biracial identity as someone who grew up raised by a single mom with parents who were both immigrants.
0:57.0	Tam I want to start with you because you have been on the road lately you were last in
1:00.6	Well I was last in Wisconsin and Georgia on Friday.
1:04.4	Right.
1:05.4	And so how has her biography generally and her own background and story weave into the
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