Vice President Kamala Harris and JD Vance, the running mate of Donald Trump, are expected to debate one another later this year. However, there’s more to this debate than meets the eye. Its cultural ties with Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. This unusual perspective results from the Andhra Pradeshi origins of Vance’s wife Usha Chilukuri Vance and Harris’s maternal roots in Chennai.
Harris’s mother was born in Chennai’s Besant Nagar area. Teenage Shyalama Gopalan relocated to the US to attend the University of California, Berkeley for her doctorate. It was then that she met Jamaican-born Donald J. Harris. The pair got married in 1963, and their first child, Kamala, was born in 1964.
Meanwhile, Usha is currently a legal associate in a San Francisco-based private law firm. She was born in the United States to parents who had previously resided in Chilakaluripeta, Andhra Pradesh. According to the Deccan Chronicle, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University with a history major. Usha received her M.Phil in Early Modern History from Columbia University in 2010, and her JD in Law from Yale Law School in 2013.
A user on X (formerly Twitter), wrote, “So the US Presidential Elections are now a toss between Tamil Nadu and Andhra-Kamala v/s Usha!”
So the US Presidential Elections are now a toss between Tamil Nadu and Andhra-Kamala v/s Usha!???????????????????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/4M7Cu2Y1un
— sanjoy ghose (@advsanjoy) July 16, 2024
Another user said, “Usha vs Kamala: Indian neighbourhood debates US presidential elections.”
Usha vs Kamala :Indian neighborhood debates ???? US presidential elections https://t.co/ZSsgd3XNld— Muktabh Mayank (@muktabh) July 15, 2024
A third user stated, “It’s an election season with a flavorful Andhra vs Tamil Nadu twist!”
Usha Chilukuri Vance, wife of Trump’s VP pick JD Vance, is a Yale & Cambridge grad from an Andhra Hindu family. supports him against Kamala Harris, who hails from Tamil Nadu, in the 2024 election. It's an election season with a flavorful Andhra vs Tamil Nadu twist!#USPolitics pic.twitter.com/bYmPL2OIKz
— Andhra Nexus (@AndhraNexus) July 16, 2024
The New York Times cited TJ Ducklo, a Biden campaign representative, as stating that Vice President Harris was ready to take on JD Vance. According to a Biden campaign insider, Vice President Harris also left Vance a voicemail in which she expressed her wish that the two may face off in the vice presidential debate that CBS News had suggested.
On Monday, Donald Trump announced J.D. Vance as his running mate, marking a dramatic change in their political dynamic. Once a harsh opponent of Trump, Vance has now turned into one of his most loyal supporters.
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