Unit 2: The Race to the White House (1ère AMC)
(At the following of what we did last time)
Timeline:
January 15th 2024: The Primaries began.
July 15-18th 2024: The Republican
Convention
August 19-22th 2024: The Democratic Convention
November 5th 2024: Election Day
December 17th 2024: The Electoral College
will meet to vote for the winner.
January 20th 2025: Inauguration Day
-To vote: To go to the polls
-Primaries: Elections to choose a candidate.
-Running mates: candidates running for President and
VP for the same party
-To campaign: To express your policies and ask people
to vote for you.
-Platforms: Party Policies
-Tickets: the pair formed by the candidates for
President and VP.
Who is Kamala Harris?
The document
under study is an extract from an article published on the US Government
Website on July 24th, 2024.
It is about how
Kamala Harris turned from Vice-President to presidential candidate.
We have
learned that Harris was born in 1964 in California from immigrant parents. Indeed, her father was Jamaican and her mother was Indian.
She has a sister. Unfortunately, her parents
divorced when she was young and she was mainly raised by her mother.
She was
chosen over Biden as the new Democratic candidate because people started to
worry about Biden’s mental and physical health and capacity to serve the
country for four more years. Therefore, on July
21st 2024, Biden officially announced his withdrawal
from the race, that was when Harris started her campaign. She officially
was nominated during the Democratic Convention on August 19-22nd.
Nevertheless,
Harris will be facing several challenges in the race to the white house: she is
a woman and a person of color. On top of that,
she started her campaign only 4 months before Election Day, it is a very short period
of time.
In
order to have more chance to win, she would have to choose a
white and old man as a running mate, someone
who would have more experience than her. Eventually she
chose Tim Walz.
Homework: Learn the lesson.
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