Joe Biden and his newly announced running mate Kamala Harris will deliver remarks together Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware. The Democratic presidential nominee announced Harris’ nomination on Tuesday, …
Joe Biden and his newly announced running mate Kamala Harris will deliver remarks together Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware. The Democratic presidential nominee announced Harris’ nomination on Tuesday, making her the first Black woman and first Asian American person on a major party’s presidential ticket. Harris, who early on was a Biden opponent for the nomination, brings the political prowess of winning statewide elections in the largest state while also personifying the diversity that key Democratic activists have said is crucial to building grassroots enthusiasm for the ticket. Amid nationwide protests for racial justice and reform of policing, Harris also served five years as attorney general in California and as a prosecutor in San Francisco. The United Kingdom’s economy fell into a recession after official figures released Wednesday showed it contracted by a record 20.4% in the second quarter as a result of lockdown measures put in place to counter the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the deepest recession since records began in 1955, the figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
