What do we know about Kamala Harris?
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What do we know about US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is thought most likely to win the Democratic Party nomination after the withdrawal of Joe Biden? What are her strengths - what are her weaknesses - and does she have a path to victory? Also in the programme: the battles between the Mexican state and the drug cartels claim yet another victim - Mexico City's police intelligence chief; and a BBC investigation tracks down one of South Africa's most notorious serial killers – Louis van Schoor – who shot dead dozens of black men and boys in the late eighties, but was controversially released from prison, and now says police colluded in his crimes.
(IMAGE: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris looks on during an event with the women and men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Champion teams in her first public appearance since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, on the South Lawn of the White House, Washington, U.S., July 22, 2024 / CREDIT: Reuters/Nathan Howard)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from |
| 0:07.8 | London. This is Owen Bennett Jones. Well Nancy Pelosi has become the latest prominent Democratic Party politician to add her support for |
| 0:17.2 | Kamala Harris to be the candidate for president. She joins President Biden who endorsed Harris shortly after pulling out himself. |
| 0:25.4 | Harris said she intends to earn and win the nomination. |
| 0:29.0 | She doesn't want a coronation it seems. |
| 0:31.6 | Addressing athletes today at the White House she paid tribute |
| 0:36.1 | to President Biden. |
| 0:38.0 | Joe Biden's legacy of accomplishment over the past three years is unmatched in modern history. |
| 0:45.1 | In one term, he has already, yes, you may laugh. |
| 0:49.9 | In one term he has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who have served two terms in office. |
| 1:01.0 | Well she spoke about President Biden but she didn't speak about her own campaign. |
| 1:07.2 | The BBC's Tom Bateman is in Washington. |
| 1:09.5 | I've been discussing this with him. |
| 1:11.5 | Now Nancy Pelosi has made an endorsement so of others but there's |
| 1:15.3 | one that hasn't come yet our people waiting for former president Obama to |
| 1:19.8 | endorse her yeah maybe it was a bit strange last night that while he paid, you know, full-throated tribute to |
| 1:28.3 | Joe Biden that in the statement as it was becoming clear that many Democrats were rallying round |
| 1:36.0 | Carmelah Harris as a sort of unity candidate that he didn't mention her in his |
| 1:40.3 | fairly lengthy written statement that he published and tweeted, but instead talked about |
| 1:47.3 | a nominee, an outstanding nominee, he said, nameless, to come at the end of a process that the party was organizing so |
| 1:56.2 | either he was sort of keeping his options open and we're just awaiting his his endorsement of Carmelah Harris or you know alternatively perhaps he had someone else in mind |
| 2:08.1 | We don't know the answer to that yet hasn't been a statement that I'm aware of since the one published last night. |
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