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It is almost certain that Kamala Harris will become the Democratic party’s presidential nominee for this year’s election. But her path to the nomination has been unconventional, to say the least.
The US vice-president first stood for the presidency in 2019 but dropped out before the first 2020 primary in Iowa. She was then picked by Joe Biden to be his running mate in that same year.
After Biden was elected, Harris was tasked with complicated matters of diplomacy and efforts to curb illegal immigration, an issue that Donald Trump is already using against her in his campaign.
Over the past few weeks, when Biden was being pressured to drop out of this year’s race, she became for many Democrats the best alternative candidate — someone to end the “age issue” while not throwing the party into chaos a month before the party’s convention.
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Fernanda Braune Brackenrich, US editor, Audience Engagement; Lucy Warwick-Ching, community editor; and Charlotte Seager, head of Audience Engagement