Profile: Who is Kamala Harris? (Part 1… Early years)
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
How much do we know about the four candidates in the race to become the next President and Vice President of the United States? What are their backgrounds, and what do they stand for? Americast kicks off its first profile series with Vice President Kamala Harris part 1. Justin explores her early rise in the state of California as a prosecutor and senator, to her journey towards becoming VP. What’s the connection between Toni Morrison and Kamala Harris? Why did she drop out of the 2020 race before a single ballot was cast? Americast is profiling all the major candidates in the U.S. election - Kamala Harris part 2 (on her time as VP), Donald Trump, and Vice Presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance - look out for our special profile episodes over the coming weekends!
HOST: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter
GUESTS: • Brian Brokaw, Former campaign manager for Harris’ Attorney General campaign • Joe Garofoli, Political journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's Justin Webb here. |
| 0:05.9 | We are doing a series of episodes profiling the presidential candidates |
| 0:10.4 | and the vice presidential Candidates as well. |
| 0:13.0 | And we're going to talk today about Kamala Harris, the Presidential Candidate for the Democrats. |
| 0:18.0 | This, by the way, is part one. |
| 0:20.0 | We're going to focus on her career as a prosecutor in California and indeed as a United States |
| 0:25.2 | senator as well. |
| 0:27.4 | And then there's going to be another episode coming up which talks more about a vice presidency and |
| 0:32.3 | what that means, what that says about what she brings to the |
| 0:37.1 | role as a nominee now. |
| 0:38.9 | If this is the first episode, by the way, of AmeriCast that you you have heard you are very welcome you can listen |
| 0:43.7 | anytime on BBC sounds or indeed wherever you get your podcast from if you're a regular |
| 0:48.0 | Americaster or Radio 4 listener as well it's very nice to have you back with us you can get in touch AmeriCast at |
| 0:54.2 | BBC.k.k. The WhatsApp is 4.330.1239480. So welcome to |
| 1:02.2 | America cast the Kamala Harris profile part one. |
| 1:07.7 | Americast from BBC News. I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been you know we did it Joe |
| 1:16.3 | you're gonna be the next president of the United States |
| 1:20.6 | Mr. Vice President I'm speaking I'm. If you don't mind letting me finish, we can then have a conversation. |
| 1:26.4 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 1:28.8 | We've been to the border. You haven't been to the border. |
| 1:32.0 | And I haven't been to Europe. And then you need to the border. You haven't been to the border. And then you need to kick that |
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