WHITE OBAMA IS PRAISED BY BLACK OBAMA FOR PICKING CAMEL AS FUTURE PRESIDENT

Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as his running mate making her first ever black woman VP candidate and says: 'Together we will beat Donald Trump' - as Barack Obama says 'nailed it' but president calls her 'nasty'

 

Daily Mail 

August 11, 2020

 

Joe Biden has picked his Kamala Harris as his running mate to help him try to defeat President Donald Trump this November. 

 

Harris, 55, is the first black woman to have the number two spot on the Democratic ticket, a historic choice for Biden that also acknowledges the role black voters will play in November. 

 

'I have the great honor to announce that I've picked @KamalaHarris - a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country's finest public servants - as my running mate,' Biden wrote on Twitter. 'Together, with you, we're going to beat Trump,' read the text message from the campaign. 

 

He and the California senator will make an appearance Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware. 

 

'I'm honored to join him as our party's nominee for Vice President, and do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief,' Harris wrote on Twitter. 

 

Biden also spoke of his running mate's friendship with his late son Beau, when both were attorneys general, Harris of California and Beau Biden of Delaware. 

 

'Joe Biden nailed this decision,' former President Barack Obama said in a statement.  'Choosing a vice president is the first important decision a president makes.  Joe has an ideal partner to help tackle the very real challenges America faces right now and the year ahead.  Now let's go win this thing.'

 

Harris made it partly through Willie Brown. The two started dating in the spring of 1994, when she showed up at his date at several high-profile functions. She was 30 and Brown was 60, serving as the Democratic speaker of the California State Assembly. He was then and still is married but lives apart from his wife. He's had a series of girlfriends. 

 

Brown arranged appointments for Harris on two state boards: California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Medical Assistance Commission. Together, the appointments paid her about four hundred thousand dollars over five years. He gave her a BMW. 

 

At the White House Donald Trump called her 'nasty' and said he was surprised Biden had chosen someone who was 'disrespectful' to the candidate during the Democratic debates.