Sen. Kamala Harris has emerged as the first woman elected vice president in the United States of America.
Biden beat Donald Trump four years after Hillary Clinton came up short in her bid to be the first female president.
“We did it. We did it Joe,” a smiling Harris told Biden by phone in a video she tweeted out. “You’re going to be the next president of the United States.”
We did it, @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/oCgeylsjB4
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 7, 2020
Harris shortly after the congratulatory call to Joe Biden said that she is ready to get to work with Biden on behalf of the American people.
.@JoeBiden and I are ready to get to work on behalf of the American people. pic.twitter.com/dMVaWbcxHV
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 7, 2020
“This election is about so much more than @JoeBiden or me. It’s about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us,” she wrote in a separate tweet.” Let’s get started.”
Harris, 56, was the first African American woman and the first Asian American person on a major party’s presidential ticket.
Harris had said she expects to work closely with Biden, offering him a perspective shaped by a different background.
“It is about a partnership that also is informed by one of the reasons I think Joe asked me to join him, which is that he and I have – we have the same ideals and values but we have very different life experiences,” Harris said during her final fundraiser for the campaign.