Kamala Harris is a whole lot of firsts. She’s the first woman Vice President, the first African American Vice President and the first South Asian Vice President, the daughter of immigrants, married to a white Jewish man and she kept her own name to boot! She is the definition of the modern American woman.
But for those of us who live in California she also holds a special place of pride: she was the first California Democrat on a presidential ticket and now she’s the first Democratic VP from California.
I know it seems weird, because California produced two presidents in the last 50 years but they were both Republicans. We’ve never had a California Democrat in the White House or in Blair House so it’s a nice moment for us on all these dimensions.