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]]>And this is what she strives to be, Harris said during the launch of the Asian American and Pacific Islander for Biden, a group supporting the Democratic nominee for the November presidential election.
Harris, 55, is of both African and Indian descent, with her father being from Jamaica and mother Shyamala Gopalan from Tamil Nadu. In public addresses, Harris has regularly reflects on the deep influence that her mother had on her.
“When my mother arrived in the United States from India, she understood that the core of her new home in America is that we not only strive for success, but to leave our country better than we found it, she told the AAPI event.
“That’s the approach she instilled in me, and I know many of you are working toward that same end, she said.
In a short video release later in the day on the occasion of Women’s Equality Day, Harris said that her mother was the greatest source of inspiration in my life.
“She taught me from a young age that I had a responsibility to fight for justice. At the age of 19, she arrived in the United States from India alone and with the dream of curing cancer. She was a woman who believed in solving problems, Harris said.
“In fact, she always used to say, ‘if you see a problem, don’t just sit around complaining about it, do something about it’,” she said.
“On the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, it’s more important than ever that we keep up the fight at the ballot box to honor the women who came before us,” she asserted.
The 19th amendment to the US Constitution granted women the right to vote.
In another tweet along with a video, Harris said that as a young girl, her grandfather would often take her on his morning walks in India, where he’d discuss the importance of fighting for democracy and civil rights.
“That commitment and that fight for a better future live on in me to this day,” she said. — PTI
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]]>“President Trump challenged, and continues to challenge, an increasingly provocative and militant China. But make no mistake, President Trump is no hawk,” Lt Gen (retired) Joseph Keith Kellogg Jr., who is the National Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, said in his address to the Republican National Convention.
“He wisely wields the sword when required, but believes in seeking peace instead of perpetual conflict,” Kellogg said in his address on the third day of the convention.
The Republican National Convention will on Thursday formally re-nominate President Donald Trump as its candidate for the November 3 presidential election.
President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will be challenged by the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee Joe Biden and his Indian-American running mate Senator Kamala Harris.
In his remarks, Kellogg said that just over a week ago, Trump brokered a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, the first in the Middle East in over 25 years. And this week, Afghan negotiators, with help from American officials, will start peace negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government to end America’s longest war, he said.
“Ask yourself, has this President kept his promises…to keep us out of needless conflicts and to pursue ending wars without end? Has he defended your interests in renegotiating trade deals that previously hurt Americans and our national security? Has he fulfilled his Commander in Chief role by decisively going after our Nation’s enemies? You and I know, the answer is yes,” Kellogg said.
The choice is clear, he said. “This is the most important election of our lifetime. The next four years will decide the course of our country for decades to come. I am asking you to stand up and be counted, so we never have to look back and recall what it was once like in America when men and women were free, our families were secure — and we had a President who served the people,” he said.
Over the past three-and-a-half years, Kellogg said, he has witnessed every major foreign policy and national security decision by the President.
“I have been in the room where it happened. I saw only one agenda and one guiding question when tough calls had to be made is this decision right for America?” he said.
– PTI
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]]>Pence, 61, accepted the nomination on the third night of the National Republican Convention on Wednesday as a crowd in Baltimore, Maryland, cheered, “Four more years.” “Four years ago, I answered the call to join this ticket because I knew that Donald Trump had the leadership and the vision to make America great again,” Pence, the current Vice President, said.
“And for the last four years, I’ve watched this President endure unrelenting attacks but get up every day and fight to keep the promises that he made to the American people,” Pence said. “So with gratitude for the confidence president Donald Trump has placed in me, the support of our Republican Party and the grace of god, I humbly accept your nomination to run and serve as vice president of the United States,” he said.
Pence and Trump will challenge Democratic Patry’s presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris in the November election.
– PTI
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