Washington, United States.
The Democrat Kamala Harris made history Wednesday by signing up as vice president of the United States and the first wife, the first African American and the first person of Asian origin to achieve this position in the country.
‘I solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution from U.S against all enemies, foreign and domestic; I’ll have real confidence in this myself, ” began Harris, who with the help of the Judge Sonia Sotomayor, lto the first Latina magistrate of the federal Supreme Court.
The oath is a fixed formula that is pronounced by everyone vice presidents when they swear the position.
Like its predecessors, Harris he ended his oath with a promise that he would “do good and faithful job duties “, in the ceremony that takes place on the west steps of the country’s Capitol in the middle of strict security measures.
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The one who had been a senator until now California and that she stepped down on Monday, shortly before that she was sworn in as vice president Joe Biden do the same as president, in front of the head of the Supreme Court, the Conservative Judge John Roberts.
Harris cursed with his hand on top two bibles, as is the tradition: one of them belonged to a friend of her family, Regina Shelton, and the second belonged to the deceased judge Thurgood Marshall, what was the primeafroamericano which was part of the Supreme Court and one of the great references is from elected vice president. EFE