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Code Switch

Kamala Harris, Revisited

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

With Kamala Harris entering the presidential race, we look back at what has shaped her personally and politically —from being the self-described "top cop" of California, to taking on a former president with dozens of felony convictions.

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0:00.0

Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

0:07.0

If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

0:12.0

I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

0:16.0

I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

0:21.2

Radio, part of the NPR Network.

0:25.0

What's good, you're listening to Code Switch.

0:27.0

I'm Jean Dembe.

0:28.0

So obviously, the big news in the country this week,

0:32.0

I don't know if you heard, was that Joe Biden dropped

0:34.8

his campaign to be re-elected president.

0:38.0

So I've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation.

0:42.4

That's the best to a new generation.

0:43.0

It's the best way to unite our nation.

0:48.0

Biden's re-election bid was listing badly

0:52.0

because of concerns over his age that were just

0:54.2

getting louder and when he stepped down he endorsed his current vice president

0:58.6

Kamala Harris. So this is where we put all the obvious stuff. If Paris were to win, she would be the first woman

1:05.0

and the first Asian person and the first black woman in the Oval Office.

1:08.0

A lot of folks are very excited about that possibility for a lot of reasons.

1:12.0

They see her as tough, a powerful speaker.

1:15.4

You know, as many of you know, before I was elected

1:18.4

as vice president, before I was elected

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