Why Kamala Harris' firsts matter

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🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' place in the White House alongside Joe Biden is a historic development for America. This episode is a special deep dive into the nation's understanding about identity — and how Harris' vice presidency could help change how we talk about race and ethnicity. Guests: Axios' Courtenay Brown, UC Riverside political scientist Karthick Ramakrishnan and Pew Research Center's Mark Lopez. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Carol Wu, Cara Shillenn, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Naomi Shavin and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: Kamala Harris inspires new race conversation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On November 17th,
0:02.0	17th, return to the games that started them all.
0:07.0	What are the Hunger Games for?
0:12.0	They're to punish the districts.
0:14.0	Three, two, run.
0:16.0	I don't love your odds, but may they be in your favor.
0:20.0	The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
0:26.3	Experience it in Cinemas and IMAX November 17.
0:28.8	Book tickets now. Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, December 29th. I'm Naila Boudin.
0:40.0	All this week, we're taking time away from the daily news cycle to step back and
0:44.5	analyze some key moments from 2020. In 22 days Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
0:50.2	will officially become president and vice president of the United States.
0:54.5	It'll be a historic moment, not because of president-elect Joe Biden, but because of who he'll be in office
0:59.5	with, Kamala Davy Harris.
1:02.4	On the night Joe Biden was declared the presidential winner,
1:05.0	Kamala Harris used her speech to remember her mother.
1:09.0	When she came here from India at the age of 19,
1:12.0	she maybe didn't quite imagine this moment.
1:16.0	But she believed so deeply in America where a moment like this is possible. so I am thinking about her and about the
1:26.0	generations of women black women Asian, white, Latina, Native American women who throughout our nation's history have paved the way for this moment tonight.
1:48.0	Today we're revisiting our episode from this summer right after her nomination because we think this is an important moment in America's understanding about racial identity.
1:59.0	Although we often focus on black or white, Harris is changing that conversation.
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