Kamala Harris named by Joe Biden as his VP pick

If elected, the senator would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.

 Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris, the prominent senator from California whose political career has included many barrier-breaking moments, as his running mate, his campaign announced on Tuesday.

 The decision comes more than a year after Harris, who was also a 2020 Democratic candidate, clashed with Biden over racial issues during the first primary debate.  If elected, she would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.

 Picking Harris, who is 55, provides the ticket with some generational diversity.  Biden, 77, would be the oldest president-elect in U.S.A.  history.

The announcement from Biden - which a campaign aide told NBC News came about 90 minutes after he called Harris to tell her - caps weeks of speculation and is Biden’s biggest decision to date as the presumptive Democratic nominee, a detail Biden himself noted in the announcement.

 "You make a lot of important decisions as president. But the first one is who you select to be your Vice President. I've decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence and then  to lead this nation starting in January 2021, "Biden wrote in an email from his campaign to supporters.