Kamala Harris fails to swing around in swing states as Donald Trump is set to become the next president of the United States

On November 6, 2024By Littum

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Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California to an Indian mother and an Afro-Jamaican father. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a biologist who came to the United States from India in 1958 to enroll in graduate school in endocrinology at the University of California, while her father, Donald J Harris came to the United States in 1961, and also enrolled at UC Berkeley and majored in development economics. They met in 1962 and married a year later. Harris was born in 1964.

Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu is the ancestral village of Kamala’s maternal grandfather PV Gopalan, who was in the British civil service. Her mother Shyamala was Gopalan’s daughter. Kamala’s grandfather Gopalan was born in this village before moving to Chennai.

The village came into the limelight in August 2020 when Kamala was nominated as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, and it celebrated her victory that same year.

A special ‘abhishekam’ of sandalwood and turmeric, besides a special ‘archana’, was performed on Tuesday at a temple in the village for the ancestors of Kamala Harris as the villagers prayed for her victory.

How Harris’ campaign succeeded

The race for the top spot had created a deeply polarized nation whose divisions only grew stronger during a fiercely competitive race between the two candidates. In the overall campaign, Harris urged Americans to come together while also warning that another Trump term would threaten the very foundations of American democracy. She also projected the election as one that should protect the country’s fundamental freedoms, uphold constitutional values and secure women’s rights.

Harris has also sought to assemble a broader but challenging coalition of liberal Democrats, independents and disaffected moderate Republicans, describing Trump as too dangerous to be elected.

For many Harris supporters, her promise to protect abortion rights after the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 decision that recognized a constitutional right to the procedure was the most compelling reason to vote for the Democratic vice president.

She campaigned to protect reproductive rights, an issue that has emboldened women since the US Supreme Court in 2022 eliminated a nationwide right to abortion.

However, despite heavy and intense campaigning to catch up after Biden’s late withdrawal from the election, Kamala was unable to win the votes in any of the swing states across the nation and ultimately lost the White House to Trump, who is about to begin his second term as President of the United States.

Released November 6, 2024, 8:38 am IST