Kamala Harris Was Evidently Jogging When She Won the Vice Presidency
I tell you what, there’s something kind of beautiful about this.
When the networks finally called the 2020 presidential race for Joe Biden on Saturday morning, his running mate Kamala Harris wasnt watching cable news or refreshing Twitter obsessively like the rest of us. She was out on a jog.
And we know this because she posted the video herself. You can see her in workout gear, on the phone, saying those words that are gonna be in every documentary about this election for the next fifty years: “We did it, we did it, Joe.”
According to reports, Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff were jogging near Biden campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware when the news broke. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy reported seeing them out on their morning run.
The tweet went viral immediately. And honestly, I get it. After the week we’d all been through – counting votes in Pennsylvania and Georgia and Nevada, watching the margins shift by a few thousand here, a few thousand there – theres something almost absurdly normal about finding out youre going to be Vice President of the United States while youre out getting your morning exercise in.
Marie Claire called the clip “sweet and poignant” – Harris laughing with excitement and relief as she told Biden “You’re going to be the next President of the United States.”
Her sister Maya wrote on Twitter that their mother “would be beyond proud today,” alongside a photo of Shyamala Gopalan Harris who passed away in 2009. The historic nature of the moment wasnt lost on anyone watching – first woman, first Black woman, first South Asian woman to win the vice presidency.
Local Fox affiliates across the country picked up the story, and the video accumulated millions of views within hours.
Listen, Ive covered a lot of elections. A lot of victory speeches and concession calls and all the rest of it. But there’s something about that video – Harris in her workout clothes, phone in hand, husband filming, that genuine burst of joy – that cuts through all the usual political theater. The incoming administration would soon face complicated immigration situations at the border and a hundred other crises, but in that moment it was just… joy.
That’s democracy for you.
