The dizzying array of firsts for Harris if she wins nomination or election

Kamala Harris, the country’s first female vice president, is no stranger to being the first in many rooms. Now that she’s the likely Democratic nominee in 2024, Harris has the chance to make history again. As a woman of color, and the daughter of two immigrants, Harris, 59, has talked about the responsibility to blaze a trail for others who follow. “My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last,’” she said in an interview in 2019. “That’s how I think about those kinds of things.” Here is a look at the many firsts of Harris’s career and some that might await her if she’s nominated or elected as president. If Harris is elected as president in November First female president: The United States has never elected a woman to the White House. Since the first U.S. president was elected in 1789, all 45 have been men. First Black female president: After his 2008 election, Barack Obama became the first Black president of the United States. Harris — the daughter of two immigrants, a Jamaican man and an Indian woman — lived a proudly African American life...