Kamala Harris was nominated as the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate for the 2020 presidential elections in the USA. Image: Lorie Shaull / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Kamala Harris was nominated as the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate for the 2020 presidential elections in the USA. Image: Lorie Shaull / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2. Joe Biden, the presumptive US Democratic party's presidential candidate, announced Tuesday night that California Senator Kamala Harris will be his running mate as the vice-presidential candidate in the upcoming November election. In an interview Tim Büthe, Professor of International Relations at the TUM Bavarian School of Public Policy (HfP), gives his assessment of her candidacy. Prof. Büthe, this year the designation of the vice-presidential candidate for the Democratic ticket was the subject of great anticipation. What was the reason? In addition to the heightened attention the incumbent US president is generally directing towards the US election campaign, Joe Biden's announcement that he would choose a woman running mate no matter what raised great expectations. Furthermore it is expected, more than is usually the case with American presidents, that a president Biden would involve his vice president in official presidential functions from day 1. And given Biden's age, there is a good possibility that she would take over as president either temporarily or permanently at some point during Biden's four-year term. At our Bavarian School of Public Policy you're particularly concerned with the political aspects of international economic relationships - what impact does the designation of Kamala Harris have on this topic?
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