If she ultimately wins the White House she would be the first African-American woman and first person of Asian descent to be president. Harris’ campaign is filled with historic possibility. Harris added, “So today I say to you, my friends: These are not ordinary times, and this will not be an ordinary election, but this is our America.” Johnson, noting that Kennedy said “at stake is not simply the leadership of our party and even our country, it is our right to moral leadership of this planet.”

Kennedy gave in 1968 when he announced that he would challenge President Lyndon B. senator from California who announced her candidacy last Monday, rallied thousands of supporters at the Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, her hometown and where she served as a prosecutor before becoming the state attorney general. “And we are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question: Who are we? Who are we as Americans? So, let’s answer that question to the world and each other right here and right now. “We are here because the American Dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before,” Harris said. Kamala Harris, standing outside of Oakland’s city hall, formally kicked off her campaign for the White House on Sunday, presenting herself as the leader who can best unite an America that is at an “inflection point” and facing a critical question.

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