Kamala Harris Brings Experience and Law-and-Order Baggage to Biden Ticket
- Biden’s running mate reflects modern Democratic base
- Harris also has tough-on-crime past that may hurt in 2020
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Senator Kamala Harris brings an aggressive approach to politics and public policy, deep electoral experience and hands-on expertise in the beleaguered U.S. criminal justice system as Joe Biden’s running mate.
Harris, at 55 a full generation younger than Biden, also imparts a youthful persona and diversity, with Jamaican and Indian ancestry that may help Biden, as a 77-year-old White man, energize a Democratic base that is rapidly becoming younger, more female and less White.