“That was very motivating to me because all of the issues that we had worked on in the community. When people leave, everything that you’ve worked on can be reversed. So, that’s what led me to run for office,” said Congresswoman Karen Bass.

Harris, who turned 56 on October 20th, will become the 49th Vice President of the United States. She will be the youngest vice president since Al Gore (who assumed office at 44 years of age) was sworn in as the 45th Vice President in 1993 under Bill Clinton.

California is one of the states that permits vacancies to be filled by a gubernatorial appointment. California Governor Gavin Newsom will have the authority of choosing Harris’s immediate successor.

In California elections, a ballot postmarked by Nov. 3 has up to 17 days later to be counted. Counties have until December 3 to certify contests for office.

“Senator Kamala Harris has been an incredible leader and an inspiration for so many of us, and I’m proud to call her a friend and mentor,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed wrote on Facebook.

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has picked California Senator Kamala Harris, the only Black woman serving in the U.S. Senate, as his running mate.

The senator was not the only one of Jamaican ancestry to make a presidential bid this year.

Many major cable networks carried the speech live.

CaribPress is looking back at the most significant developments in 2010 – From Haiti’s earthquake to the World Cup in South Africa.

Kamala Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican, Donald Harris, a Stanford University Professor (Emeritus).

Kamala Harris, 46, replaces Democrat Jerry Brown, who gave up the office in his successful bid for governor.

Democrat Kamala Harris retained a 30,000-vote lead Tuesday over Republican Steve Cooley in the race for state attorney general. That’s a lead of four-tenths of a percentage point, with nine million votes counted.

San Francisco D.A. is first African-American woman to run for statewide office in more than 30 years.