Less than a week before the start of the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris of California as his vice-presidential running mate. The nomination is another first in Harris’s illustrative career. In 2017, Harris joined the U.S. Senate as the second African-American woman and first South Asian-American senator in U.S. history. As a senator, she has served on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary, among others. Prior to that, she served as the first female attorney general for California. Given her professional experience, Harris does not hesitate to weigh in on key U.S. domestic issues. But where does the first woman of color to be nominated for national office by a major political party stand on the important foreign policy issue of U.S.-Russian relations?
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