{"id":55357,"date":"2024-08-18T15:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T05:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55357"},"modified":"2024-08-18T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T05:50:29","slug":"harris-bets-america-is-ready-for-first-black-woman-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55357","title":{"rendered":"Harris bets America is ready for first Black woman president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is America ready to elect a Black woman as its president? Vice President Kamala Harris, who will be officially confirmed as the Democratic US presidential nominee in Chicago next week, is betting that it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my entire career, I&#8217;ve heard people say when I ran&#8230; people aren&#8217;t ready, it&#8217;s not your time, nobody like you has done that before,&#8221; the Democrat said in 2019 when she ran against Joe Biden in the primary presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t listened and I would suggest that nobody should listen to that kind of conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Harris&#8217;s campaign never took off and she left the primaries race before Biden picked her as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>If Harris, 59, manages to beat Donald Trump in November, she will become the first woman and the second Black person, after Barack Obama, to run the world&#8217;s leading power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is America ready to elect a Black woman as its president? Vice President Kamala Harris, who will be officially confirmed as the Democratic US presidential nominee in Chicago next week, is betting that it is. &#8220;In my entire career, I&#8217;ve heard people say when I ran&#8230; people aren&#8217;t ready, it&#8217;s not your time, nobody like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2152],"class_list":["post-55357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-harris-bets-america-is-ready-for-first-black-woman-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}