The Story of Kamala Harris

Over the next few days at the Democratic National Convention,
Vice President Kamala Harris will accept her party’s nomination
and reintroduce herself to American voters.


Astead W. Herndon, a national politics reporter and the host of
the politics podcast “The Run-Up,” talks through key periods in
Ms. Harris’s life that explain what she believes and the kind of
president she might become.


Guest: Astead W. Herndon, a national politics
reporter and the host of the politics podcast “The
Run-Up” for The New York Times.


Background reading: 


A vice-presidential learning curve: How Ms. Harris picked her
shots.

Nearly 14 years ago, Ms. Harris’s opponent in the California
attorney general’s race gave an answer at a debate that was frank
— and fateful for the future Democratic presidential nominee.



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