Kamala Harris is used to firsts. But can she be the first female president?
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
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Summary
Of course, that would not be her first, first.
Harris's entire career is a list of jobs that nobody who looks quite like her had held before, including California's attorney general, Senator, and Vice President of the United States.
Harris often stresses that while she may be a first, others paved the way.
Kamala Harris has had a career full of firsts – could she also be the first woman to become President of the United States?
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| 0:00.0 | Biden is out and Harris is in. |
| 0:03.0 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 0:06.0 | Enough delegates have lined up behind the vice president to officially make |
| 0:09.2 | Kamala Harris the Democratic presidential nominee next month. |
| 0:12.4 | And unofficiallyially pop stars and |
| 0:14.8 | memes are juicing up the engine too like this remix of Charlie X CX with a |
| 0:19.6 | catchphrase from the presumptive nominee |
| 0:23.0 | the princess tree |
| 0:25.0 | of the princess tree |
| 0:26.0 | I'm everywhere I'm spong to the uh |
| 0:28.0 | all of all in which you live and what came. |
| 0:33.4 | The family coconut tree that Harris comes from has a lot of branches. |
| 0:37.6 | And yes, I know that coconut trees don't actually have branches. |
| 0:40.4 | It's a metaphor. |
| 0:41.8 | Her mother was Indian, her father, Jamaican, and her career is a series of firsts, |
| 0:46.7 | first woman, first person of color, to hold jobs like San Francisco DA, state attorney general, |
| 0:52.3 | senator from California, and now Vice President. |
| 0:55.8 | My mother used to have a saying and she would say to me, Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, |
| 1:00.7 | but make sure you're not the last. That's Harris speaking with Jake |
| 1:03.8 | Tapper at a CNN town hall during her first run for president in 2019. A year |
| 1:08.9 | later she won but not at the top of the ticket. We did it, Joe. |
| 1:15.0 | You're going to be the next president of the United States. |
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