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Up To Date with Ethan Callender Entry 4: Veep, Veep!

  Up To Date with Ethan Callender Entry 4: Veep, Veep! As of now, Joe Biden, the likely Democratic nominee for President in the coming election, has picked his Vice President. She is the first black and South Asian woman on a major party’s Presidential ticket, meaning that history can still be made in this election. She is a Senator from California, and an accomplished former District Attorney, all while being decades younger than Biden. In the Senate, she is widely regarded as a strong presence and an intense interrogator. Her name is Kamala Harris. Her being picked as Biden’s VP is to be expected considering the drastic demographic differences, but I believe she is also a safe and smart choice for the role. To begin, let’s analyze her plentiful qualifications. She is a former prosecutor and DA , but that does have its downsides in context. For one thing, the Democratic Party and California had much stricter criminal stances at the time, as did most of the country. As a prosec...