MSNBC host Joy Reid says Sen. Kamala Harris is going to give generations of little girls someone to look up to.
Harris became the first black woman to be on a major-party ticket on Tuesday after presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced her as his running mate.
“Never again will little black girls and brown girls and white girls and Asian girls ever think of the vice president of the United States and not see themselves,” Reid said on her prime-time show, the ReidOut, on Tuesday.
Reid, who recently became cable’s first black female prime-time anchor, said a victory for Biden-Harris would be the recognition that black women have been waiting for.
“For a lot of black women in America today, this is the ultimate affirmation,” Reid said. “The loyalty that black women have uniquely shown to the Democratic Party has not always been returned.”
Reid credited black women for remaining a loyal voting bloc for Democrats for decades and said they rescued Biden’s candidacy in his major primary victory in South Carolina earlier this year.
She also said that Biden deserves recognition for making Harris his pick for vice president after he served under President Barack Obama, the country’s first black president.
The host boasted that Harris would be the first vice president to be a member of a black sorority and the first member of any administration who went to a historically black college if her and Biden are elected.
She called the duo a product of an “emerging America” while hitting at the country led by President Trump.
“Today is a day that history was made, and it’s also a day of warning because women are more than prepared to defend this ticket and this vice president from those who try to denigrate it,” Reid said. “Why? Because this ticket belongs to the emerging America, the America that Trumpism and anger and meanness cannot stop.”
