Obama and Harris have have known each other for 20 years.
Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris share a moment during an event on the Affordable Care Act and lowering health care costs for families in the East Room of The White House, April 5, 2022.
MORE: Harris rallying in Wisconsin same night as DNC because she's still the 'underdog': Campaign official "And I stepped back in my mind and I looked at what I was looking at," she said at a 2019 Des Moines event. "Which over the course of at least 85 years, all the indignities, all the injustices, that she has experienced and witnessed, and at that age of life, she wasn’t about to go through experiencing another disappointment or indignity. And so, me being me, I decided well I am not leaving here.
“She is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough, and she is exactly what you'd want in anybody who is administering the law, and making sure that everybody is getting a fair shake. She also happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general in the country," he said.
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