Padma Lakshmi: Kamala Harris Is Ending Trump Era That Empowered People To Nakedly Show Racism’
Padma Lakshmi was “on a hike in Garrison, New York” when she heard that former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris defeated Donald Trump and Mike Pence in the 2020 Presidential election. The news left the Top Chef host “elated,” according to her opinion piece in The New York Times. “Then suddenly I felt this heat welling up from my chest into my throat, and it burst out of me in tears I could not control. At first, I didn’t even know why I was sobbing. Finally, I was thinking. Finally, a woman, and a woman of color, takes this office.”