By Dana Goodyear
Joe Biden has fulfilled his pledge to choose a woman as his vice president, along with responding to many black women and the Black Lives Matter movement by choosing an African-Asian-American woman, the first ever on a VP ballot.
This is just another first on Harris's list of firsts, starting from San Francisco all the way to state and Senate seats. In all of them, she was the first African American woman in her position. During the Democratic primary, she seemed confident that she could add presidency to her list as well. Unfortunately, her failure to provide a clear cut message to voters, along with her shaky record in the criminal justice reform movement, prevented her from getting voters. Her final moment of glory was in a Democratic debate when she grilled Biden over his opposition to buses in the 1970s, "That little girl was me." That left the two in an awkward position should she be considered for vice president.
However, Biden's acceptance of that and choosing her anyway fit into his whole narrative of broadening perspectives, and it worked out in the end.
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