Continuing a short walk of women nominations for the top positions
Kamala Harris is the first black woman ... and the third American woman to run for vice president
Kamala Harris has been a Senator since 2017. From the source
Sarah Palin with Presidential Candidate John McCain. From the source
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With the selection of the presidential candidate, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, this senator from California became the third woman in American history to be chosen for the position of vice president on a presidential party ticket, and the first black woman to run for the office. Harris, who is of South Asian roots, was a candidate for the 2020 presidential race, but abandoned it in December. She has served as a Senator since 2017, and previously served as the Attorney General of California.
Biden's announcement on Tuesday comes after months of speculation on a group of candidates, and after his team reviewed more than a dozen women. Biden pledged earlier this year to pick a woman as his running mate, and was under pressure to choose a woman of color.
Next week, with the Democratic National Convention, Harris will become the third woman in US election history to accept the vice presidential nomination. In 2008, then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was Republican vice presidential nominee, and in 1984 Democrat Geraldine Ferraro of New York ran for the position as the first American woman to run on a major party ticket.
Sarah Palin
In 2008 Palin rose to prominence, thanks to the then Republican candidate, Senator John McCain of Arizona, to be on the Republican Party list. What astonished the political scientist was that Palin, who had been governor of Alaska for less than two years when she was nominated, had almost no foreign policy experience. And she was chosen in the same year that Biden was chosen as former Vice President Barack Obama.
Palin began her political career when she was elected to the city council of Wasilla, Alaska, in 1992. She later became mayor of Wasilla, which had a population of over 5,000 at the time. She ran for deputy state governor in 2002, but was unsuccessful, and later was appointed chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Preservation Commission.
In 2006, Palin defeated incumbent Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary, then also defeated former governor Tony Knowles in the general election, becoming the youngest person and the first woman to be elected governor of Alaska.
After a wave of national interest, Palin began to face criticism for spending about $ 150,000 on her wardrobe, after McCain announced her selection as a candidate for the position of vice president, which raised questions about her image among working-class voters. Palin also suffered a series of slips of the tongue in media interviews.
In an interview, she said that one could see Russia from dry land in Alaska, and comedian Tina Fey parodied that moment on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" by saying, "I can see Russia from my home." . Palin was also mocked by some for failing to mention a newspaper or magazine that she read regularly when pressed by CBS.
Geraldine Ferraro
24 years before Palin was nominated, Ferraro, a Democratic congressman from Queens (New York), broke political barriers to become the first woman to be on a major party card. Ferraro grew up in New York City, public school teacher and later attorney. In the 1970s, she joined the Queens County Attorney’s office, and later established an office for victims of sexual crimes, child abuse, and domestic violence.
In 1978, Ferraro was elected to the US House of Representatives. While in Congress, she focused her attention on legislation that fought for women's economic equality. When presidential candidate Walter Mondale chose her for vice president, she not only became the first woman on a major party ticket, but also the first Italian-American.
She registered a dynamic presence on the campaign trail, but during the campaign she was confronted with questions about alleged financial misconduct by her husband, John Zacharo. In the end, the ticket did not receive widespread support, and Mondale and Ferraro were overwhelmingly defeated by then-President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George W. Bush.
Ferraro ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate in 1992 and 1998, losing both times the Democratic primary in New York. She served as ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights during the administration of President Bill Clinton. In 1996 and 1997, she co-hosted the "Crossfire" program on "CNN", and later appeared as a commentator on "Fox News" and died at the age of 75 in 2011 while undergoing treatment for leukemia.
24 years before Palin was nominated, Ferraro, a Democratic congressman from Queens (New York), broke political barriers to become the first woman to be on a major party card.
In 2008 Sarah Palin rose to prominence, thanks to the then Republican candidate, Senator John McCain, to be on the party list without having had any political experience.