CBC News · Posted: Aug 11, 2020   
      
      
   Joe Biden's new running mate, Kamala Harris, is a Westmount High graduate   
      
   40 years ago, Harris attended high school in Montreal   
      
      
   Joe Biden has chosen U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, a graduate of Westmount High   
   School, as his running mate in his bid to defeat President Donald Trump.   
      
   Biden is the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.   
      
   Harris, 55, has made history by being the first Black woman to compete on a   
   major party's presidential ticket.   
      
   For five years, from Grade 7 to Grade 11, Harris attended high school in   
   Montreal. She graduated in 1981. Dean Smith, a former classmate, recalled   
   Harris as "perfect, always smiling, a nice person" on CBC's Let's Go Tuesday   
   afternoon.   
      
   "She got along with everybody," Smith said. "It was a lot of rich kids from   
   Westmount mixed in with kids from the lower area of Montreal. She popped up   
   from California. She could blend with both."   
      
   Harris, who served as California's attorney general before being elected to   
   the U.S. Senate in 2017, was born in Oakland, Calif.   
      
   Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a breast-cancer scientist originally from   
   Chennai, India, brought Harris and her sister, Maya, to Montreal in the 1970s   
   when she took a job teaching at McGill University and doing research at the   
   Jewish General    
   Hospital.   
      
   Her father, Donald Harris, was born in Jamaica and is a retired Stanford   
   University economics professor.   
      
      
   Sought the Democratic nomination   
      
   In January 2019, she announced she would join the Democratic presidential   
   race. But by December, she had officially withdrawn, citing a lack of funds.   
      
   Still, her campaign was notable for her strong performance in debates, where   
   she often targeted Biden.   
      
   Smith, her former classmate, called her "the right match for Donald Trump."   
      
   "He won't be able to verbally spar with her," he said. "She has the intellect   
   to deal with him."   
      
   Biden made the announcement on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.   
      
   "I have the great honor to announce that I've picked Kamala Harris — a   
   fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country's finest public   
   servants — as my running mate," the presumptive Democratic presidential   
   candidate wrote on Twitter.   
      
   The U.S. Presidential election takes place on Nov. 3.   
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   Smart mother (taught at McGill University), smart father (professor at   
   Stanford), and smart presidential nominee Joe Biden for choosing their   
   daughter as his running mate.  Canada will be cheering for the two of them in   
   every upcoming debate.   
      
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