Since Kamala Harris recently clinched the official Democratic presidential nomination, Americans have been on the edge of their seats waiting to see who her running-mate pick would be. The news was finally announced yesterday, with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz emerging victorious in what CNN dubbed “the most accelerated vice-presidential search in modern history”. Before that, the shortlist consisted of Walz, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Senator Mark Kelly.
The search had sparked renewed interest in astronaut, navy pilot and Arizona senator Kelly ...
as well as his daughter, and old posts involving drugs that have come back to haunt him. Here is what you need to know. Who is Mark Kelly? {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/07/92021682-e5ea-49ac-a597-9be99d8e3b58_4d0a4ab9.jpg"} Senator Mark Kelly was on the shortlist to be Kamala Harris’ running-mate in the 2024 US presidential election. Photo: Getty Images Per The Guardian, Kelly, 60, became a senator in Arizona in 2020 after beating Republican Martha McSally in a special election.
A former US navy pilot who was sent on several deployments, Kelly is mostly known for being an astronaut who went on four missions to space. In his p.