Kamala Harris to young Black women at conference: 'I want you to be ambitious'

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is in consideration to be former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, appeared to respond to criticism that she was “too ambitious” on Friday while speaking to an audience of young Black women.

"There will be a resistance to your ambition. There will be people who say to you, 'You are out of your lane,'" Harris said during a livestreamed conversation for the Black Women Lead 2020 conference, according to CNN.

"They are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don't you let that burden you," she added. "I want you to be ambitious."

Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian descent, is the second Black woman to be elected to the Senate and would be the country's first Black and Asian vice presidential candidate. If elected, she'd be the first woman and the first nonwhite person to fill the office.

Her comments came after CNBC reported that unnamed allies of Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee, considered Harris to be “too ambitious.”


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