Vice President Kamala Harris formally became the first woman of colour to run for US president, accepting the Democrats’ nomination with a vow to chart a “new way forward” from the divisions and bitterness of the “unserious” Donald Trump.
Addressing thousands of jubilant supporters at the close of her party’s convention in Chicago, Ms Harris introduced her life story to voters, mixing a message of forward-looking hope with warnings of what a second Trump term could bring.
