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“We did it,” California Senator and Vice President elect Kamala Harris tweeted as soon
as networks called Pennsylvania for the Biden/Harris ticket Saturday morning putting
them over 270 and assuring their victory.
In the process their election made President Donald Trump, as Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell would say, “A one term president.”
Black Americans lifted Biden up during his darkest days of the Democratic Primary
and on November 4, these same Black voters who chose not to dwell on his missteps
of the past and instead focus on his compassion and humility as a man; his
experience as a legislator and leader on the national and international stage; who
remembered his loyalty to the nation’s first Black president Barack Obama; who was
not afraid to put a Black woman on the ticket with him, showed up in historic
numbers to carry Biden and Harris to victory.
Photo: Kamala Harris tweet about election after being named Vice President Elect
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As a result, and in recognition of her own leadership credentials, on Saturday,
November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris broke the glass ceiling of the nation’s second
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