All big things start small. With a question such as: How do you pronounce this name? Ka-MA-la? Or KA-ma-la? The answer is Kamala Harris is currently on every occasion on which it occurs: the emphasis on the first syllable, “comma, say, a La attach”, this is the donkey bridge, build it for your audience. And when Harris talks about her name, she is also already in the midst of the story of your life. Her first name is Sanskrit for Lotus flower, the mother is from India, father from Jamaica, and since this week’s candidate for the presidency of the United States.

your application for the Nomination of the Democratic party, the Senator from California, announced on Monday, the Martin Luther King Day. A deliberate gesture, such as Harris in the TV show “Good Morning America” said. A bow had learned in front of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, in which your parents are familiar with – and the was Harris embossing.

representative of the most important groups of voters

From the civil rights you have learned that it is worth to fight for the Ideals of the United States. “Americans deserve to have someone fight for them. who sees you and hears of their experiences of their own interest,” she said.

to compete To 2020 in the main election against Donald Trump, claiming the 54-Year-old first, in the democratic primary against a field of competitors that is getting bigger and bigger. To hear Harris’s advantages that you would be in the case of an election of the first woman in the White house and also African-American roots. Women and Blacks are among the most important groups of voters to the Democrats.

Aggressive questioning style

Harris Grew up in a black Middle-class neighborhood in Berkeley, California. As a child she spent some time with the family of her mother in India, she went regularly to a black Baptist Church as well as in a Hindu temple. After her studies, in Washington, she worked for 13 years as a Prosecutor in San Francisco and was elected district attorney. In 2010, she made the choice to be attorney General of California. Already there, she was the first woman with African-American with Indian roots. Biographically, the difference between Trump and his white voter base is probably no other democratic candidate is so great.

her career in the judiciary power, Harris is also the theme of your presidential campaign. Their Slogan is “For the people”, for the people. So you started before the court their pleadings, they also run policy, she says. In the U.S. Senate, in which it sits since 2016, as the only African-American, Harris quickly made a name for your thorough to aggressive questioning style that you asked about in the hearing of the constitutional judge Brett Kavanaugh. Video excerpts of this war of words went on, from your Social Media Team sent to spread, go viral, and your entered in the left-hand circuits a large following in the area.

Not the little people went

at the same time their history is also a Handicap. A state attorney, has sent hundreds of criminals behind bars: This choice may be in the main votes from the political center. But to the left of the base, the activists of the “Black lives matter”movement and elsewhere, there are already votes, the Harris’s exactly why to be suspicious. “Kamala Harris is a cop”, it means in the social networks again and again, a representative of the hated judicial system, the Blacks and other minorities discriminated against. A law Professor from San Francisco, accused Harris in a guest post in the “New York Times” to be as the top Prosecutor of California is often “on the wrong side of history” stood.

Harris knows that this suit will be in the election campaign, louder and louder. One of their consultants explained to the online magazine “Politico” that Harris wool to face the fact that she wanted to sell itself as the “progressive Prosecutor” didn’t go off on little people, but criminal organizations and the economy have followed a criminal.

Only the pure doctrine

the pressure of the left base, other candidates of the Democrats feel. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from New York had to justify a few days ago, word rich for their previous, significantly more conservative stance on illegal immigration and weapons possession. It had become with the years of compassionate, said Gillibrand, and this is explained, among other things, that she had since become a mother – a statement of the reasons which can lead the children to Harris. In the Senate, Harris agrees, but relatively consistently to the left, and one of the most important issues for the Democrats – the introduction of a single health insurance company does not distinguish you from your competitors much.

Already, many observers expect that, ultimately, not a single substantive position, remuneration, decide who prevails in the case of the Democrats, but the origin and personal history of a candidate. Your first name of Harris is talking about, therefore, probably a few more times.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 22.01.2019, 19:28 PM