Meena Harris shared a video of her aunt,Kamala Harris , talking to her daughter, Amara Ajagu, as she awaits election results.- In the video, Harris and Ajagu discuss the possibility of the 4-year-old becoming the president in the future.
- "You could be president," Harris told her niece, who promptly responded that she wanted to be an astronaut president.
- The clip has been shared widely on social media, with Harris' supporters celebrating that young girls could have a model for a female
vice president if Joe Biden and Harris are elected.
Kamala Harris took a break from awaiting the 2020 presidential election results to have a conversation with a very important supporter: her grand-niece, Amara Ajagu.
The 4-year-old is Meena Harris' daughter, the senator and vice-presidential nominee's niece.
Meena, who is a children's book author and the CEO of the activist clothing line Phenomenal Women, often shares videos and photos of her daughters supporting their aunt.
Most recently, she captured a candid conversation between the senator and Ajagu that she shared to Instagram.
In the video, Ajagu talks to her aunt about the possibility of becoming president someday. It's hard to hear her in the video, but she either says "I know I'm going to be president" or "I couldn't be president" as she sits on her aunt's lap. PopSugar reported the former, while Glamour heard the latter.
"You could be president," Harris immediately replied to her niece's statement. "But not right now, you have to be over the age of 35."
Rather than listening to the age qualifier, Ajagu responded to her aunt by saying, "I know I could be an astronaut president."
"This conversation went on for like an hour," Meena captioned the post on Instagram. She also shared the video to Twitter, writing: "You could be president."
"For context, my daughter wants to be both president and an astronaut," Meena wrote in a reply to her own tweet.
The sweet clip has been widely circulated on social media, with Biden-Harris supporters voicing their excitement at the possibility of having a female vice president.
—Caitlin Abber (@everydaycaitlin) November 5, 2020
—Jillian Barberie (@askjillian) November 5, 2020
—Fernando Carranza (@ferndogg59) November 5, 2020
Kamala Harris often talks about the important role her family, and particularly the women in it, play in her life
An essay she wrote in 2019 for Elle about her step-children's nickname for her, "Momala," went viral, and her sister, niece, and step-daughter even introduced her at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Meena also posted a photo of her daughters being reunited with their aunt earlier this week.
"They haven't seen her in person since last year," she wrote.
Representatives for Kamala Harris and Meena Harris, respectively, did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.
- Read more:
- Democratic VP nominee Kamala Harris comes from a family of lawyers and Stanford graduates. Meet the family.
- Kamala Harris' niece is publishing a picture book on women's ambition. She told us why she never 'sugarcoats' the reality of racism and sexism when talking to her kids.
- Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, describes meeting her as 'love at first sight.' Here's a timeline of their relationship.
- Harris would break barriers as a high-profile vice president