![]() ![]() (Courtesy of Kamala Harris) RIGHT: Donald Harris on his way to a doctorate in economics at Berkeley in April 1965 while holding Kamala. LEFT: At 25 years old, Shyamala Harris had a college degree, a PhD and her daughter Kamala. “How do you bridge the gap between what you know about someone, and what people think about someone?” Her trick then, in her own words, is this: Few, if anyone, have had these concerns about Maya, and Maya doesn’t have these concerns about Kamala. Questions of who she is, what sits at her core, and why exactly she wants to be president have become central to her campaign and chances of winning. Sometimes during this campaign it can seem as if she’s trying to please all the people all the time, and sometimes it’s like she just can’t please anyone. Over the course of Kamala’s political career, she’s been many things: tough on crime, progressive, pragmatic, hard to fit into an ideological box. “If people knew who Kamala was, and really what she believes and really where her heart is,” Maya said,“I think it would be hard not to reach the conclusion that this is the person who would be the most passionate advocate for the things we’ve been fighting for for a long time.” It’s your classic good-cop/not-a-cop routine. ![]() Maya is, in other words, exactly the type of person who might criticize Kamala’s campaign from the sidelines. Harris, right, is inaugurated as attorney general as her sister, Maya Harris, center, and Chief Justice of California Tani Cantil-Sakauye, left, applaud at the California Museum in Sacramento on Jan. ![]()
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