NORTH CAROLINA, USA — President Biden announced that he will drop out of the 2024 Presidential Election with less than five months from general election.
Vice President Kamala Harris has official began her campaign for President.
Before VP Harris held any office, she graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C.
She could become the first president to ever graduate from a historically black college and university, better known as an HBCU.
WFMY News 2 spoke to students at local HBCU's about the potential significance.
Both students tell us they are appreciative of the work VP Harris has done for HBCU's across the country.
"Transformative, one of my favorite sayings. If you can't be what you can't see," North Carolina A&T State University student Charles-Anthony Woodfork said.
In less than a year he met VP Harris twice; once during her HBCU college tour and again for a black history month reception at the White House.
Woodfork said he has admired her ever since.
"A black woman who is a product of an HBCU and who is also from the Bay Area. There are so many levels and parallels to how important it is to me," he shared.
This year is his first time voting in a presidential election. Woodfork said he's looking forward to exercising his right as an American.
The news brought Winston-Salem State University alumna Daria Bonds back to her graduation in May. The VP sent a surprise video message to the ceremony.
"To see Vice President Harris pop-up on the screen. It was a moment of awe really. I was overwhelmed with emotion," Bonds reflected.
She told us she plans to vote for the candidate who puts the upcoming workforce first.