Kamala Harris is rising fast in the polls — will her past as a prosecutor sink her campaign or be her biggest strength as she makes her case against Trump? Jamil Smith's latest
!” at her events. File “presidential candidate enters a convention hall advanced by a fully decked-out drum line” under things I thought I’d never see. But that is precisely what Harris does in late June at the South Carolina Democratic Convention, before letting loose a message that dramatically departs from her prosecutorial rhetoric and ties civil-rights progress to the fortunes of the United States as a whole.
Simon, who has the practical experience of working with Harris, believes she can be a transformational figure as president, even though Simon agrees it’s a major ask to get black folks to believe that in the Trump era. “You don’t need somebody to give you permission to be your brilliant self,” Simon says, noting that it was Harris who pushed her to go to college. “And I feel that’s why she decided to run for president.
That “heavy burden,” as Harris puts it, is one she knows from experience. “Look, you have to understand that when I hold a microphone in front of me, I am acutely aware of the power that I have,” she says, locking eyes, her demeanor serious. “From the day I became a prosecutor in my early twenties, I learned that with the swipe of my pen, if I charge someone with a misdemeanor, they could be arrested. They could sit in jail for 48 hours. They’d be embarrassed in their community, in their family.
At the Essence Festival in New Orleans, Harris teased a forthcoming slate of policies focusing on black uplift while
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