When Kamala Devi Harris enters 1 Observatory Circle, the official home of the Vice President in January 2021, she will have achieved many firsts: The first woman, the first person of Indian descent, the first African-American, the first with Jamaican heritage, the first daughter of immigrants to hold that office.

Joe Biden, who has been declared the winner of the 2020 US presidential election by the media, marvelling at her string of firsts, said on Saturday: "Once again, America has bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice. It's long overdue."