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Becoming the 1st black woman and Asian American on a major president ial ticket a california senator has been chosen as democratic candidate joe bidens running mate in the race for the white house and if donald trump is voted out in November Harris will become the 1st woman of color to occupy the vice presidency the senate is a fierce advocate for Police Reform and social justice analysts say her selection is a sign of the vital role black voters could play in the upcoming election well i live for us at the white house now and i think actually there is some reaction now allen from commodity self saying that she is on ed to join joe biden the democratic ticket saying that biden can unify americans. Well you wouldnt expect to see anything else certainly there were a number of contenders joe biden said he would announce his Vice President ial pick before the Democratic National convention which is now going to be held. Virtually starting next week he had a number of names in the frame there where at least 10 hed said earlier this year that he was going to pick a woman after the black matter protests it seemed almost certain they would pick a woman of color so we came from 10 possible contenders dont have just one someone that joe biden noise someone that joe biden likes and someone that attacked joe biden during the primary campaign the v. P. Pick Kamala Harris have similar highnesses been the favorite to fill the democrats the piece look for some time. She brings a High National profile as a former president ial candidate a senator from california. And family connections to biden she was Close Friends with his late son bo but this is my belief child of a mother from india and father from jamaica she takes 2 important boxes as a woman of color. Search and a dynamic or and really good message and shes really good at talking about complicated subject and made a very clear to the audience in to the American People former attorney general of california shes used her skills as a prosecutor in Senate Hearings to pick apart arguments put forward by the come to but that all title has also brought criticism during her tenure as attorney general there are a lot of questions raised about her willingness to intervene in a variety of types of cases including Police Excessive use of force allegations as well as areas around drug policy that could really become a problem or. In the 1st democratic president ial candidate debate she had a Tense Exchange when she said joe bidens past few on the segregated schools was hurtful but in modern u. S. Politics it all seems a long time ago smart and charismatic shes been the front runner for a reason and 55 more than 20 years younger than the candidate shes seen as the next generation of democratic leaders. Well alan is obviously still with us and so are you mentioning there in your report that these are 2 people who have sparred before in the past and certainly hasnt been afraid to criticize joe biden on racial issues what is she going to bring to his campaign. You know i think that might be part of joe bidens attraction to her he doesnt want to be surrounded by people who will simply agree with them all the time when barack obama approached him to be Vice President he said i want you to help me govern and joe biden agreed as long as he was the last voice in the room that barack obama listen to that barack obama could make any decision and joe biden would go out and sell it to the American Public if thats what was required but he wanted to be the last voice that barack obama spoke to so the fact that campbell how this isnt scared to stand up to joe biden might have been something that he liked just looking through some of the tweets some of the social media reaction there seems to be universal praise for the decision among democrats that its a real contrast to 4 years ago you remember then that Hillary Clinton picked tim kaine the senator from virginia a very capable very accomplished politician but the overall reaction was met here theyre seeing Something Different and this might be what joe biden wants he wants to energize the Democratic Base he wants to make sure that people come out and vote because although hes ahead in the polls at the moment its august and the elections in november and theres a long way to go we know that has been essentially vetted to within an inch of our life we nor all the Opposition Research we know that the Biden Campaign has gone through everyones track record with a fine tooth comb and asked the question is there anything that could come out that will embarrass the campaign theyre clearly very happy that everything negative that can be said about count as out there in the open and that is why they have me to pick one very interesting reaction from jim clyburn a name not known by our International Audience hes a congressman in South Carolina he is the whip of the Democratic Party in the house of representatives and essentially hes the man who saved joe bidens campaign to give him his indorsement. That was enough for the overwhelmingly black voters in South Carolina to get behind george biden and give him their support that propelled him to victory in South Carolina and then on to bigger victories on super tuesday and beyond he thinks that this is a very smart choice by joe biden and that will play very well in several communities across the United States all right thank you for now alan fischer well joe biden has tweeted about his decision of running mate he said i have the great honor to announce that ive picked a lot of horace fearless fighter for the little guy one of the countrys finest Public Servants as my running mate so obviously joe biden making that announcement himself on twitter a bit earlier. Has also given her reaction about joining the race she saying that joe biden can unify the American People because he spent his life fighting for us and as president hell build an america that lives up to our ideals im on a to join him as our partys nominee for Vice President and do what it takes to make him our commander in chief that is a commodity says a recent tweet as a row brunells joins us now over the phone from los angeles actually and before she was elected to the senate in 2016 kilometers spent some 26 years as a prosecutor in her home state of california whats her whats been the reaction there to her selection as v. P. So far its been very positive as you mentioned and as you were discussing with with allen moments ago the democratic reaction is overwhelmingly positive different story from the republican side but the. Governor here Gavin Newsome a democrat of california praised the pick of the camel hair its in a tweet calling or on a principle and a Perfect Choice for joe biden there has been. The action also from President Trumps campaign. With Katrina Pierson trent senior adviser. Saying in a statement that the parents is proof that joe biden is an empty shell being filled with the extreme agenda of the radical left so then it didnt take very long for the Republican Campaign for President Trump do to respond i would think they had something ready a long before this and didnt trump is going to have one of his briefings later on today so well hear from him in person but in general shes a popular figure in california she had a rousing beginning of her president ial race. For the democratic nomination with a huge rally in Oakland California hometown. She was not able to sustain any momentum. In the race for the 2020 nomination perhaps because she was. Sort of the twixt and between between the more progressive side. Of the Democratic Party with Bernie Sanders and the more pragmatic or traditional side or lane that joe biden occupied its interesting since we have been talking about president ial politics political history in the United States theres an interesting parallel here. We talk about how Campbell Harris mounted a very effective attack on joe bidens history insofar as race and the segregation go its in one of the only debates and that definitely catapulted her up the ranks and it was a secular attack probably one of the most effective attacks during all of those many debates well in 1980 lets go back to 1980 Ronald Reagan was running against jimmy carter and the candidate thats mounted the most effective attack against reagan was bush sr. Who referred to reagan to do with a nomics reagan nonetheless the person who had attacked him in an effort to bring the Republican Party together i think you see some parallels here to that a candidate who despite the fact that you get attacked. Biden very effectively now on the ticket and perhaps too as an effort to solidify full democratic support behind biden especially for among women among black americans among people who support the black one madam movement and people who d see it as long overdue for a woman to be all acted Vice President and for black women as well. All right rob thank you for now rob reynolds in los angeles we just want to run through some of the key points from his background take a closer look at that now she is 55 years old she is the daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants the 1st time senator from california had endorsed biden when she dropped out of the president ial race earlier this year of course she was a candidate a self and shes been a fierce critic of President Trump as harris was the 1st black woman to serve as californias attorney general wesley served 2 terms in office i do joe castro joins us live now from maryland has that been what response you hearing to this news. Well sure were expecting a briefing from President Trump from the white house in about 20 minutes time and certainly hell be fielding many questions from reporters in response to the selection of harris as joe bidens running mate now we know the feud between these 2 has been running for a while at least on twitter when harris dropped out of the field of candidates for president back in december. We saw President Trump mocking her early exit from that because from that field weve also seen harris asking twitter to deactivate Donald Trumps twitter account and once she did drop out the vocal critic attacking President Trump on behalf of joe biden while supporting his candidacy of course now we know she is his Vice President running mate pick now as my colleague alan fisher was reporting come on harris certainly checks off many boxes as the partner to run on this ticket was joe biden for democrats one of those boxes is among the democratic establishment seeing kamel a harris as a relatively safe pick going along with her track record she never was really characterized as a progressive she wasnt exactly a moderate was somewhere in between and shes been said by many to have very pragmatic positions that can easily back up what joe bidens priorities are when it comes to policy so though she may character herself to rise herself leaning more towards the moderate side were seeing certainly the response from the g. O. P. As something very different trying to characterize kind of the harris as an extreme leftist the g. O. P. Chairwoman were mcdaniel tweeting minutes before that comma harriss extreme positions from raising taxes to abolishing private Health Insurance to comparing Law Enforcement officials to the k. K. K. Show that the left wing mobs. Controlling joe bidens candidacy just like they would control him as president running with that theme we saw president trans twitter account re tweeting attack a video that was obviously prepared well ahead of hand against comma harris also labeling her as a leftist extremist again thats something that she herself would say is untrue and that many looking at her record would also say is untrue as she does lean more towards the center of the aisle all right thanks very much heidi jocasta in maryland as heidi was saying trump is expected to speak in some 20 minutes so we dont have a reaction from the president trying just yet to come out of horaces selection is joe bidens running mate but im sure that he will be asked about that and well hear his reaction pretty soon for now we can speak to Simon Rosenberg a former adviser to president bill clinton he joins us via skype from washington and heidi was speaking about some of the initial reaction has been from republicans and for example ronald mcdonald. Betraying the someone with extremist positions comparing nor enforcement officials to the k. K. K. And showing that the left wing is controlling joe bidens candidacy i mean probably this is the sort of rhetoric we could expect regardless of who biden selected you know in the months leading up to the election but do you think there has to be some level of caution on the part of the Trump Campaign if these if we see this this sort of attacks could actually. Be counterproductive for the trunk campaign and out working to the advantage of joe biden. Well don trump isnt one of the worst electoral positions of any sitting president in the modern era of american arctics hes running one of the worst campaigns that weve ever seen hes trailing joe biden badly so i dont really put a lot of stock in the efficacy of these attacks and our harris is among the most inspiring and capable leaders that we have the Democratic Party shes a friend of mine i know her very very well and i think shes going to bring a lot of energy and passion and excitement to this ticket this is a this is a dark day for the truck you know paint theyre way behind and i think shes going to bring an incredible boost of energy to the campaign in the final days. And. Im just wondering though if we likely to see i mean is this something that the Trump Campaign will seize on and is it something that they you know will the ferocity of this sort of leftist takeover rhetoric i mean are they going to focus on attacking her on might they take a different approach. Listen at the end of the day this is going to be about joe biden and and and lets just be very clear as one of your other commentators said earlier theyve been making this leftist mob argument for months and its not working its all they have its because the economy is cratering the president has waved a white flag of surrender to cope that unlike any other modern country in the world i can go down the long list of his failed as well years as president and so they dont have a lot to run on in the in the initial attacks ive known come up for a long time she was known as a moderate crime fighter and for no i mean the idea that theyre trying to cast her as some left this is just its a joke right i mean she wasnt even on the list that was given to the to the Vice President from one of the most prominent left wing groups in the United States because she was considered to be too moderate or conservative i mean she i think it is it is not knowing that is thats a fair point she faced criticism to have record on clintons justice for not doing enough to prosecute police men that had been violent towards young black men and california during that time his attorney general. But so 2 just kind of go meeting on from that and theres some elements within the Democratic Party that will be disappointed by this election i dont think so and i and i think that look everyone will have a quibble with somebody right like no 100 percent and your book combo is 95 percent in everybodys book hate she is in credit she is very popular in the Democratic Party is the faster stronger and i mean there are a lot of different choices that he has and i think that its going to reinforce i think that one of bidens greatest challenges was to represent to create this contrast between Donald Trumps backward looking campaign that this all just a trump ism and sort of this the what had been a very modern Democratic Party because just because of his age right. I think this is going to be a real signal that the campaign is looking forward focusing on