The Veep has been announced, page-74

yep.....she's certain to appeal the aspirational migrant community

not so much to the anti-intellectual crowd



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

"Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a breast-cancer scientist who had emigrated from Tamil Nadu, India in 1960 to pursue a doctorate in endocrinology at UC Berkeley.^[8] Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics, who emigrated from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at UC Berkeley"

"At Howard University in Washington, D.C., she double-majored in political science and economics (B.A. 1986), interned as a mailroom clerk for California senator Alan Cranston, chaired the economics society, led the debate team, demonstrated against apartheid, and joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.^[19][20] Harris returned to California, where in 1989 she earned her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.^[21] She passed the bar examination and gained admission to the State Bar of California on June 14, 1990."


her sister would be an asset as well....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Harris

"Maya Lakshmi Harris (born January 30, 1967) is an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and television commentator. She is a political analyst for MSNBC^[1] and in 2015 was appointed as one of three senior policy advisors to lead the development of an agenda for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.^[2] She was formerly a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress."