The women Kamala Harris has mentored

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The women Kamala Harris has mentored
By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN
9 minute read
Updated 1:16 PM EDT, Mon September 16, 2024
CNN —

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Long before she became the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris had started quietly nurturing a network of next-generation politicians – almost all women of color, many with backgrounds in the law, many who didn’t know who else was in the group. Often, that has been through check-in calls offering encouragement and advice, many of these women told CNN, though sometimes Harris will interrogate them on the specifics of campaign strategy or push them on how they’re dealing with labor or other constituencies.

She was on a running text thread with Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley. She counseled longtime friend and former aide Laphonza Butler through the frenetic weekend last fall that ended with Butler’s appointment to the Senate. She hosted a collection of Black congresswomen for a dinner at the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s residence.

Tears can flow. Major life-changing decisions get made. Harris always asks about their kids. And along the way, these relationships have become core for Harris herself – as a mission for a politician who takes seriously her mother’s admonition to be the first but not the last. They’re also a comfort for a vice president who remembers well her own loneliness as she worked her way up and serve as a base of support for a politician who until July had seen much of the Democratic establishment turn on her.

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With Harris within reach of the Oval Office, these women feel the pride of now supporting her, but also of what her win would mean to them, the issues they have connected on and their own careers. Many who had never imagined careers in politics boggle at the idea of a president who might look like them and know them by name.

Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maryland, has started collecting magazines with Harris on the cover, buttons, a T-shirt and other memorabilia. Lateefah Simon, who first met Harris over 20 years ago when the young San Francisco assistant district attorney reached out to Simon as the leader of a group for young girls in trouble, is now all but certain to win an open House seat anchored in Oakland. She broke down sobbing during Maya Harris’ convention speech when thinking of her own memories of the vice president’s mother.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/kamala-harris-mentor-women/index.html

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. What an inspiration she is and a wonderful successor to Biden

who does the same things.



Meanwhile the orange fuckwad just talks about all the people who got on their knees and begged him to support them and thanked him for his greatness.

[Doc Sportello]

2. The more you learn bout Kamala Harris

The more you admire and love her.