Kamala Harris And Her India Connection

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US vice president Kamala Harris has formally accepted the Democratic Party nomination for the US presidential election 2024

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Kamala Harris will fight against her Republican rival Donald Trump

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Ms Harris, who has Indian roots, emerged as the Democratic candidate after President Joe Biden quit the race for the White House last month

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If successful, she will become the first woman to be elected US president

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Kamala Harris traces her roots in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu where her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born

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Shyamala Gopalan went to the US as a teenager to pursue a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley

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This is where she met Donald J. Harris, and the two got married in 1963. They had two daughters, Kamala Harris (born 1964) and Maya

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During her acceptance speech, Kamala Harris said her mother was 19 when she crossed the world alone

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She said her mother travelled from India to California with an unshakeable dream to be the scientist who would cure breast cancer

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