Pocket squares and pearls
FROM the very beginning, despite their differences, they looked like a team.
When then presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that Senator Kamala Harris of California would be his running mate, the two stood together onstage at a Wilmington, Delaware, high school and made their pitch to the American people, talking about their shared purpose and their vision of the future.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there was no crowd of supporters and no celebratory balloon drop, yet the moment still crackled with excitement because Biden’s choice marked the first time a black woman and a woman of Asian descent would be nominated by a major party.
They are opposites, a man and a woman from different generations and different sides of the country. A daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother. A son of Irish Catholics. But their visual story placed them on common ground.
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