Kamala Harris: Her thankless job, and can she succeed Biden?
On top of the usual challenges, she has to navigate political life as a woman, and tackle a growing humanitarian crisis while avoiding becoming a political scapegoat.
ON January 21, 2019, when Kamala Harris, then the junior Democratic Senator from California, announced her candidacy for president of the United States, many expected that she would soon emerge as the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.
She was a relatively young and very attractive politician, whose mother was an immigrant scientist from India, and her father, an economist of Afro-Jamaican descent. She grew up in California and had served as the state's Attorney General before getting elected to the Senate.
More than 20,000 people attended her formal campaign launch event in her hometown of Oakland, California, and she attracted in the following days support from a large number of enthusiastic activists and donors.
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