{"id":27411,"date":"2020-08-11T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27411"},"modified":"2020-08-11T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T21:19:10","slug":"joe-biden-selects-sen-kamala-harris-for-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27411","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden selects Sen. Kamala Harris for VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p class=\"\" data-page=\"1\" data-item-type=\"depthscroll\" data-item-id=\"depth_scroll_top\" data-item-number=\"top\">Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party\u2019s presidential ticket and acknowledging the vital role Black voters will play in his bid to defeat President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I have the great honor to announce that I&#8217;ve picked @KamalaHarris \u2014 a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country&#8217;s finest public servants \u2014 as my running mate,&#8221; Biden tweeted. In a text message to supporters, Biden said, &#8220;Together, with you, we&#8217;re going to beat Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p class=\"\">Harris and Biden plan to deliver remarks Wednesday in Wilmington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p class=\"\">In choosing Harris, Biden is embracing a former rival from the Democratic primary who is familiar with the unique rigor of a national campaign. Harris, a 55-year-old first-term senator, is also one of the party&#8217;s most prominent figures and quickly became a top contender for the No. 2 spot after her own White House campaign ended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27412,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27411\/revisions\/27412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}