Yes, Donald - you should be afraid of Kamala Harris... here's why

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As soon as the announcement was made that Joe Biden would no longer be running for re-election to the White House, something magical happened: Black women across America stopped what they were doing and began organising.

On Sunday afternoon, a Zoom meeting for community leaders was hastily convened to discuss ways to ensure that vice-president Kamala Harris is selected as the Democrats’ nomination next month – and beats Donald Trump.

Originally, 1,000 Black women – city mayors and Senate hopefuls, community activists and civil rights leaders – were meant to join the call, to discuss fundraising and voter registration strategies. In what was intended as a determined show of grassroots support for a campaign to put a Black woman in the White House, that number quickly became 40,000.

They spent four hours voicing their unwavering support for Harris – sharing personal stories about working with her, surfacing her leadership qualities and underlining her unimpeachable qualifications for the role of US president. Before she rose to the vice-presidency under Biden, Harris had been the first African-American woman and south Asian American woman to serve as the attorney-general of California (though not without controversy – more on that later).

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/kamala-harris-joe-biden-donald-trump-b2583860.html