Tonight, October 7th, Senator Kamala Harris will meet Vice President Mike Pence in their one and only debate of the 2020 election campaign.
Harris is the first woman of color on a major party presidential ticket, and she is only the third woman ever nominated by a major party for vice president.
The first, in 1984, was Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, who was chosen by Democrat Walter Mondale to be his running mate.
Her one and only debate performance was against then-incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush.
I met Gerladine Ferraro in 1998. The book she had just written was about the strong women who shaped her life, not least of whom was her own mother.
Sp here now, from 1998, Geraldine Ferraro:
Geraldinme Ferraro died in 2011 at the age of 75.