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U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday pulled out of the race to contest for second term and endorsed his Vice, VP Kamala Harris to be nominated as Democratic Party candidate instead.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Harris is the 49th and current Vice President of the United States since 2021.
Following the election of Biden as U.S. president in the 2020 election, Harris assumed office as vice president of the United States on January 20, 2021.
She is the first female Vice President and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American Vice President.
Harris is also the second person of color to hold the post, preceded by Charles Curtis, a Native American and member of the Kaw Nation, who served under Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933.
She is the third person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach one of the highest offices in the executive branch, after Curtis and former president Barack Obama.
Harris, previously a U.S. Senator from California from 2017 to 2021, was announced running mate to Biden on August 11, 2020. She had been considered a top contender and potential frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.
She became the first African American, the first Indian American, and the third woman after Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin to be picked as the vice-presidential nominee for a major party ticket.
Harris also became the first resident of the Western United States to appear on the Democratic Party’s national ticket.
She resigned her Senate seat on January 18, 2021, two days before her swearing-in as vice president.
On November 19, 2021, Harris served as Acting President from 10:10 to 11:35 am EST, while President Biden underwent a colonoscopy. She became the first woman, and the third person overall, to assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency under Section 3 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
If nominated and elected, Harris can become the first woman to serve as the substantive President of the United States.