First female US Vice President! Democracy, truth and values matter
Washington - America ultimately embraced the universal rule of law by recognizing Biden as its 46th President elect and celebrated Harris as the first woman and first woman of color ever elected Vice President since the nation’s founding over 200 years ago as a slave society.
Harris opened her victory speech by reflecting on the words of former Congressman John Lewis, the son of sharecroppers and a Civil Rights Movement leader, who said just before his passing: “Democracy is not a state. It is an act."
Having achieved record voter turnout even in the midst of a pandemic, this theme of democracy as a practice took center stage in Harris’ remarks, said that she is the first female Vice President, but not the last...