Moment Kamala Harris found out she’d won

Vice president-elect Kamala Harris was heading out for her morning run – then she got a phone call that will change her life.

Video of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris finding out she and running mate Joe Biden had won the election has instantly gone viral.

“We did it, we did it Joe,” Ms Harris is seen saying on the phone, a huge grin spreading across her face.

Decked out in a Nike jacket and headphones, it appears that Ms Harris was heading out for a morning run when she received the news.

US Democratic nominee Mr Biden passed the required threshold of 270 electoral votes on Saturday morning, US time, after he was declared the winner in the key state of Pennsylvania.

He will now be the 46th President of the United States.

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We did it, @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/oCgeylsjB4

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 7, 2020

“You’re going to be the next president of the Unites States,” Ms Harris said over the phone, before erupting into excited laughter.

The 8-second video soon went viral on Twitter, with 25 million views at time of writing.

It was posted four hours ago, soon after Mr Biden’s win became official.

Harris rings up her boss, Joe Biden, to share the excitement of the victory.

Harris breaks down into a laughing fit

WHO IS KAMALA HARRIS?

The Democratic victory is momentous, especially for Harris, who will become the first woman and first woman of colour as Vice President of the United States.

The New York Times wrote that “Ms Harris, 56, embodies the future of a country that is growing more racially diverse, even if the person voters picked for the top of the ticket is a 77-year-old white man.”

Biden and Harris are now the next president and vice president of the USA. Picture: Twitter

People celebrate the news that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has seemingly won the election on November 07 (US time), 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Picture: Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP

Kamala Harris is a Californian Senator.

“My name is pronounced ‘comma-la’, like the punctuation mark,” she wrote in her 2018 memoir The Truths We Hold.

She was born in Oakland, California in 1964.

Her immigrant parents, Jamaican-born economics professor Donald Harris and Indian-American breast cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan Harris, divorced when she was a child. Both have since passed away.

She majored in political science and economics at Howard University – a “Historically Black College or University” – in Washington D.C.

She went on to become District Attorney of San Francisco, where she had a tough-on-crime approach, then became Attorney-General of California.

Ms Harris turned 56 in October and Mr Biden will be 78 in late November, causing many to speculate that she may well take the presidency at the next election.

Fifteen vice presidents have gone on to hold the Oval Office. Six were elected, eight moved into the position after the president died and one upon a resignation, being that of Richard Nixon in 1974.