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Harris to Biden over Phone: We Did It Joe!


Sun 08 Nov 2020 | 10:15 AM
Omnia Ahmed

U.S. Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, on Saturday, phoned President-elect Joe Biden and congratulated him in a now-viral clip she posted on Twitter.

 

The eight-second video has been viewed more than 19 million times. The video showed Harris speaking with Biden over the phone, seemingly while out on a walk or jog.

 

“We did it, Joe,” she said in the clip with a smile on her face. “You’re going to be the next president of the United States.”

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She made history becoming the first woman, and a woman of color, has been elected  US vice-president in the White House.

 

“This election is about so much more than Joe Biden or me,” she said in a statement posted on Twitter shortly after the results. “It’s about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started.”

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She was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents - an Indian mother and Jamaica father. Her parents got porced when she was five and, was primarily raised by her mother Shyamala Gopalan, who was a cancer researcher and civil rights activist.

Kamala as child with her mother and younger sister Maya