Scamala： Kamala Harris Unmasked ｜ Episode 1 - Introducing Scamala
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Kamala Harris is the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Vice President. She s been in public life for four decades, and in that time, she has conned her way from obscurity to public service, from California to the US Senate, and finally to the vice presidency. But how did someone with such a knack for failure manage to climb the greasy pole to the precipice of power in the world?
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Now, let's dive into Scamala, Kamala Harris unmasked, and see what the left doesn't want you to know.
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She's the vice president of the United States, the historic first black female vice president.
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Since Joe Biden chose Kamala as his vice presidential candidate in 2020, he has touted her as a co-partner in this administration.
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I will be a full partner to the president-elect and the president, and whatever our priorities are, I will be there to support him and support the American people.
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She has substituted for Joe Biden at international conferences on Ukraine.
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She has sat in on phone calls with foreign leaders.
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She has globe-trotted to push the administration's agenda on everything from climate change to the economy to race in America.
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And yet, Kamala Harris is largely perceived as a joke by the American public, a figure straight from Veep.
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My fellow Americans, words have many meanings, and sometimes instead of conveying our meaning, they can suggest other meanings.
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We are the United States of America because we are united.
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Harris's awkward laughter has become the unofficial accompaniment of the administration's myriad foibles.
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Her bizarre word salads have become a late-night comedy fodder.
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Right, the significance of the passage of time.
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Kamala is, in the public mind, according to polling data, incompetent, unqualified, an idiot.
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Kamala Harris has been in public life for four decades.
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In that time, she has conned her way from obscurity to deputy district attorney.
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From there, to San Francisco district attorney.
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Kamala Harris's story is one of corruption and a failing up.
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Kamala Harris is not merely incompetent or unqualified or foolish, though.
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That danger is often obscured by her awkward persona.
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But that persona hasn't been an obstacle to her rise.
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Now, Kamala Harris is a hair's breadth from the Oval Office.
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How did someone with such a knack for failure manage to climb the greasy pole
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to the precipice of the most powerful position in the world?
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In this documentary podcast, we're peeling back the layers of Kamala Harris's career,
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exposing the scandals, the missteps, and the awkwardness that have come to define her journey.
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Kamala Harris is utterly and radically inauthentic.
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A person without any central conviction except the desire for power.
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And if the story of Kamala Harris tells us anything,
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My mother used to have a very funny story about it.
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That's Kamala Harris on Jimmy Fallon's show in 2021.
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In fact, she told it to Elle magazine in October 2020 as well.
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Unfortunately, that story doesn't appear to be Kamala's.
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It appears that Kamala plagiarized it from Martin Luther King Jr.,
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when a white policeman accosted a little Negro girl,
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who was walking in a demonstration with her mother.
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And the little girl looked at him straight in the eye
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It's a small but telling example of Kamala Harris's
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constant attempts to reshape and remold her own history.
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But what lies at the core of the real Kamala Harris?
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to Donald Harris, a Marxist economist from Jamaica,
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and Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher from India.
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Like Barack Obama, Kamala was not an American descendant of slavery.
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Both of her parents would earn PhDs from UC Berkeley.
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They would go on to divorce when she was seven.
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Religiously, she also grew up going to Hindu church.
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Her mother told the Los Angeles Times in 2004, quote,
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a culture that worships goddesses produces strong women.
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She performs all rituals and says all prayers at the temple.
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My family always wanted the children to learn the traditions
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Kamala grew up in the uber-liberal enclave of Berkeley
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Later, of course, Kamala would claim to have been victimized by segregation,
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most famously in her second presidential debate when she targeted Joe Biden.
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We've also heard, and I'm going to now direct this at Vice President Biden,
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to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators
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who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
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You know, there was a little girl in California
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who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools,
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When Kamala was 12, she moved with her mother and sister to Montreal, Canada.
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There, she went to school at the private Catholic school Notre-Dame de Nages,
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students at her school were more divided, quote,
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about who had the latest Jordache genes than about race.
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In other words, Kamala certainly did not grow up in the face of widespread and sinister American racism.
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Nonetheless, after high school, Kamala went to college at Howard University,
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She chose Howard because, as she later told the Washington Post,
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When you're at an HBCU, and especially one with the size and with the history of Howard University,
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which was known forever as being Chocolate City,
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it just becomes about you understanding that there is a whole world of people who are like you.
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It's not just about there are a few of us who may find each other.
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and she found one, becoming a social justice activist as soon as she got there.
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She spent many weekends protesting against apartheid in South Africa on the Mall in Washington, D.C.,
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and she took part in a 1983 sit-in of an administration building to protest the expulsion
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After attending Howard, Kamala went to the University of California Hastings College of Law.
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She interned at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office between second and third year at law school,
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as well as becoming president of the National Black Law Students Association.
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She failed her first attempt at the California Bar,
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later making the excuse she hadn't properly studied.
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Nonetheless, she latched on at the District Attorney's Office as a deputy prosecutor.
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And Kamala's career might well have ended there, as a local prosecutor.
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But then, in 1994, she met someone very important.
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Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown.
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Willie Brown had entered the California State Assembly in 1964, the same year Kamala was born.
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He was 60 years old when they began dating, Kamala, a mere 29.
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Brown was a famous womanizer who led a separate life from his wife,
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looking for a new gig after Speaker of the Assembly.
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And Kamala was, to put it mildly, a woman on the make.
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Within months, Brown wasn't just squiring around Kamala publicly,
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introducing her to all the important people in California culture and politics.
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He was actually appointing her to public positions, taxpayer-funded public positions.
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First, he appointed her to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board,
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a position that compensated her $97,000 annually.
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She left after six months, but he then appointed her to the California Medical Assistance Commission,
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which paid her over $70,000 per year, about $150,000 today.
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As the Washington Examiner reports, the commission met just twice per month.
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Kamala still missed one-fifth of all the meetings.
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Kamala herself was the youngest member of the board by 30 years.
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Former Republican California State Assemblyman Brett Grunlin told the Examiner,
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quote, both boards are reserved for political payback or occasionally for personal rewards, for personal service.
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As Kamala's mother would later tell the press, quote, why shouldn't she have gone out with Willie Brown?
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Brown didn't just provide a public pension to his lover.
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He also familiarized her with the top players in the state.
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As journalist Charlie Spearing writes in his political biography of Kamala, Amateur Hour, quote,
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Brown and Harris only dated for about a year, but he made a foundational impact on her political and financial future.
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In his last year as California Speaker of the Assembly, Brown appointed his new girlfriend to two positions in state government
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that, all told, paid her more than $400,000 over five years.
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As Brown's girlfriend, Harris was featured in all the gossip and high society columns
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as Brown worked the city for his campaign for mayor.
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Brown has publicly acknowledged how much he helped her in her early years.
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It was more than 20 years ago, he wrote in 2019.
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Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly Speaker,
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and I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco.
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I've also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governor Gavin Newsom,
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, and a host of other politicians.
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He does not note, however, that he never had sex with Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, or Dianne Feinstein, we presume.
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Kamala was not just another fling for Willie Brown.
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Herb Cain, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who also happened to be Willie Brown's best friend,
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wrote a lot about his relationship with Kamala.
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In a June 19, 1995 report, Cain wrote that Brown had, quote,
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given up girls in favor of a woman, Kamala Harris, who is exactly the steadying influence he needs.
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In a December 14, 1995, Pete Sun Brown's victory party, Cain referred to Kamala as the, quote,
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He reported that the hat-ground war celebrating with
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DA MAYOR written on it, in all caps, was a gift from Kamala.
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But then, 11 days later, on the day after Christmas,
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Cain wrote the newly elected mayor was putting the word out it was over with Kamala.
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He said the breakup was shocking and flabbergasted aides, who viewed Kamala as the perfect antidote
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For that, you need to look in Willie Brown's own autobiography, Basic Brown.
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Without mentioning Kamala by name, he says his actual wife, Blanche Vitero,
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put her foot down once she saw the reports about how serious things were with Kamala.
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In the book, Brown writes that while Blanche, quote,
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usually maintained her cool about his philandering,
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every once in a while, she made it clear who was boss.
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After Blanche read an item in Herb Cain's column that implied a girlfriend of mine and I were going to get married,
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Listen, she may have him at the moment, but come inauguration day and he's up there on the platform being sworn in.
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Well, in the book, he also writes that she was a high priestess in Haitian voodoo religion.
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But more importantly, any notion this wasn't an affair because Brown and his wife were long estranged
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They broke up because Willie Brown was married.
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And maybe that explains the animosity Kamala clearly still has.
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Brown wouldn't leave his voodoo priestess wife to make Kamala San Francisco's first lady.
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As Fearing points out in his book, Kamala still refuses to acknowledge her debt to her former lover.
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Later in her career, as she ran for San Francisco district attorney with his help, she insisted, quote,
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I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years.
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Kamala doesn't mention Willie Brown once in her autobiography.
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In 1998, San Francisco district attorney Terrence Hallin hired the now 33-year-old Kamala.
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She was to be paid some $100,000 per year, almost $200,000 in today's dollars.
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Hallinan called her a terrific prosecutor with a great reputation.
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He also insisted he had not spoken with Willie Brown about her hiring until it was all done.
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The next year, despite questions about Hallinan's far-left progressive prosecutorial style, Brown backed Hallinan.
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Kamala, though, quickly became disillusioned with her lack of power in the prosecutor's office.
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She tried to get Hallinan's chief deputy fired.
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When she failed in August 2000, she moved to the city attorney's office and set her sights on defenestrating her former boss.
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Kamala's next ambitious move would be the betrayal of the man who hired her at the San Francisco district attorney's office.
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Just three months after she moved offices, in October 2000, Willie Brown began publicly criticizing Hallinan, paving the way for the Kamala Harris for DA campaign.
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And I made a very conscious and deliberate decision to become a prosecutor,
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understanding that it is some of the most vulnerable people in our community who are impacted by the criminal justice system.
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Kamala turned on Hallinan as soft on crime and tried to make the case that she would be far harsher on criminals than Hallinan had.
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She went out of her way to slam Hallinan's refusal to prosecute thousands who had rioted over the Iraq war.
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She slammed Hallinan as a man willing to let murderers off the hook.
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lying to us about his domestic violence record, adding,
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In office, Kamala would follow Hallinan's San Francisco prosecutorial model herself.
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Hallinan struck back by pointing out Kamala's relationship with Brown.
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In response, Kamala threw Willie Brown under the bus, undoubtedly with his tacit permission.
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quote, Brown, the outgoing mayor, less than universally loved at the end of his second term,
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But his stamp of approval was crucial in raising money from the San Francisco establishment,
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said Aaron Peskin, a board of supervisors member who backed Harris.
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the City Ethics Commission fined Harris $34,000 for breaching a spending cap she promised to honor.
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And her campaign manager was caught impersonating a volunteer for a rival
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in a bungled attempt to gain inside information.
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She's already accumulated half a dozen misdemeanors,
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the highest fine in the history of the San Francisco Ethics Commission,
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and committed violation after violation of our ethics code.
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After winning, as has been the consistent pattern throughout her career,
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Kamala immediately embarked on a campaign for higher office.
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Now, there's no easy way to square those two goals,
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In her inaugural speech, she promised to be smart on crime.
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First, she sought to cater to her left-wing base.
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Kamala had campaigned as an opponent of the death penalty,
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and she held to that even after the April 2004 murder of police officer Isaac Espinoza by a gang member.
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We have thoroughly reviewed the facts and the law in this case, said Kamala.
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It was a complicated analysis that involved many issues, many facts, and many laws.
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She just didn't want a death penalty case on her record,
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despite the protestations of then-Senator Dianne Feinstein.
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Kamala also avoided seeking the death penalty for an illegal immigrant gang member who committed a triple homicide.
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It simply wouldn't do to look too right-wing in going after murderers,
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even if she had criticized her predecessor for just that sort of conciliatory approach to homicide.
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Kamala also reversed herself on her critique of Halinin regarding the Iraq War rioters.
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Her office was responsible for the release on probation of a suspect who would murder a prominent Oakland journalist.
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She refused to prosecute criminals under California's so-called three-strike law unless the final felony was violent.
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It turns out her campaign as a smart crime fighter was just a facade for the reality.
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But somehow Kamala also had to appear tough on crime, at least tough enough to run for Attorney General of California.
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And so she began falsifying her prosecutorial statistics.
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Now, there are two ways of increasing your conviction rates as a prosecutor.
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First, you can actually increase the number of convictions out of the number of trials.
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Second, you can decrease the number of trials altogether while holding the number of convictions steady.
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Kamala, of course, went with strategy number two.
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Of the backlog of 73 homicide cases on Hallinan's watch, Harris cut a deal for 32 of them and only convicted 15 of the defendants for murder.
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Police officers didn't understand why cases were being dropped.
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Fewer cases you need to prosecute means fewer cases you need to win to keep your conviction rate up.
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Kamala continued to take both sides of nearly every issue during her time at San Francisco DA.
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She refused to prosecute prostitution but opposed decriminalization.
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She supported legalizing medical pot but also supported federal officers arresting distributors.
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She tried to prosecute a schizophrenic woman who was injured by the police after attacking officers.
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Most famously, she began arguing she could lock up parents of truant children.
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I would not be standing here were it not for the education I received.
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So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.
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Later, of course, she would argue she never actually imprisoned parents.
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But that's not what she was bragging about at the time, trying to be top cop.
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Her incompetence nearly exploded into the open in 2010 when a member of her office emailed a colleague
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about an increasingly undependable crime lab technician.
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That crime lab technician, Deborah Madden, wasn't merely undependable, it turned out.
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She had tampered with cocaine and stolen some of it.
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failed to produce exculpatory information actually in her possession regarding Madden and the crime lab.
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The court blasted Kamala for significant errors and misjudgment.
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Kamala would herself dismiss some 1,000 drug-related cases
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Once again, she was willing to let hundreds of criminals onto the streets
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All of this time, Kamala's eyes were on the next rung on the political ladder,
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To achieve that office, Kamala would have to increase her name brand.
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Now to a woman named one of America's most powerful women by Newsweek magazine.
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As San Francisco's first female African-American and Indian-American district attorney,
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Kamala Harris has received praise for raising conviction rates against violent criminals
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while creating innovative programs to reduce crime and prevent repeat offenders.
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Now if you were to watch that interview with Matt Lauer,
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you'd think Kamala Harris had been wildly successful in San Francisco.
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But in reality, her tenure was a failure with low conviction rates
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and according to her opponents, the highest homicide and robbery rates in the state.
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She then moved on to the general election against Republican Steve Cooley,
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pointing out she had no intention of remaining attorney general for the state,
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For Kamala's part, she wasn't exactly hiding the ball.
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She recruited high-profile supporters, including President Barack Obama.
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Her relationship with Obama would later become a crucial component in her rise.
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In the end, Kamala pulled out an incredibly close race, winning by just 0.8%.
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As California AG, Kamala was quickly hailed as one of the nation's most important women.
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Her star was rising, and the media were burnishing it.
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38-year-old Kamala Harris came out of nowhere and was swept into office as San Francisco's
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She was the first woman ever to be the city's top prosecutor.
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We take a look at a woman that many are calling the female Barack Obama.
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With a 90% conviction rate, superstar prosecutor Kamala Harris made history when she was elected
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California's first African-American female district attorney.
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Barack Obama in particular gave Kamala high praise, calling her the nation's best-looking
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Mr. Obama praised California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
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But then Mr. Obama added, she also happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general
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The resulting media melee, which Kamala no doubt enjoyed, forced Obama to issue a half-hearted
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She spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Obama's favor, raising her profile
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And if we can work together and stand together and vote together on November 6th for President
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Barack Obama, that's a dream we will put within reach of all our people.
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How worshipful was the press to Kamala, this new rising star?
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Maxim Magazine named her the 54th hottest woman in the world in 2013, beating out Brooklyn
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Decker, Emmy Rossum, Emilia Clarke, and Jessica Chastain.
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Kamala knew she'd still have to play both sides of the table to preserve her campaign
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To that end, she pretended to act as a tough-on-crime top cop, cut deals where she had to, and she
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In 2012, Kamala came under scrutiny from her left for cutting a deal with the banks after
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She refused to prosecute One West for predatory lending.
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This led to criticisms of cronyism from the left, given that key investors included Kamala
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She also fell under the spotlight after her office made the argument that prisoners slated
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for release due to prison overcrowding had to be maintained to provide a labor pool for
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Quote, extending two-for-one credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely
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impact fire camp participation, a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle
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of a difficult fire season and severe drought, her office wrote.
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When that news broke, Kamala pretended to be shocked.
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After all, who could expect the attorney general to read the paperwork her own office was filing?
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Meanwhile, Kamala even took a position against cash bail and defended death penalty cases in
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court, despite her prior opposition to the death penalty as a DA in San Francisco.
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Now that her eyes were on the national level, she knew she'd have to distance herself at
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least a little from the San Francisco radical left.
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She infamously refused to defend the will of California voters in the courts in 2012,
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when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals moved to discard Proposition 8, California's referendum
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enshrining male-female marriage as the only legal standard for marriage in the state.
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The night the proposition was killed by the Ninth Circuit, she herself officiated a same-sex
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This amounted to a fundamental betrayal of her office.
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The attorney general of a state doesn't simply get to overrule the people of that state by
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refusing to defend the law, but Kamala did, and she was celebrated for it.
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All was well in Kamala-land, and it was about to get even better.
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In 2014, at the ripe old age of 49, just in time for her next political step, she married
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As stepmom to Emhoff's two children, she began calling herself Mamala.
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Kamala easily won re-election as attorney general.
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Then, in January 2015, Senator Barbara Boxer announced she would leave office.
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That left the door wide open to Kamala, by far the most prominent Democrat in the race.
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Not only that, California had recently changed its laws so that the top two candidates in
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an open primary would face each other in the senatorial election.
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That meant for the first time, no Republican would appear on the final ballot at all, meaning
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that Kamala only had to be the most popular Democrat in the state to walk into the Senate.
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But Kamala would use her final few months as attorney general to polish her left-wing
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In April 2016, she targeted David DeLayden and Sandra Merritt, pro-life activists who
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had the temerity to report on the selling of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood.
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Meanwhile, she was touting Planned Parenthood on her own website.
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As Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony, lists, I'd quote,
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The fact that Ms. Harris is seizing private property of a pro-life California activist who has
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exposed horrific practices conducted by Planned Parenthood, which donated thousands to her
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last campaign. While her Senate campaign promotes and defends them, the nation's largest abortion
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provider is a conflict of interest and abuse of government power. DeLayden stated, quote,
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This is no surprise. Planned Parenthood's bought-and-paid-for AG has steadfastly refused
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to enforce the law against the baby body parts traffickers in our state or even investigate
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them, while at the same time doing their bidding to harass and intimidate citizen journalists.
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We will pursue all remedies to vindicate our First Amendment rights.
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In May 2020, DeLayden filed suit against Kamala for civil rights violations.
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No matter. Kamala's 2016 Senate campaign was a romp. It required no serious campaign
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infrastructure, given that no Republican was running against her. It also required no discipline.
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As The Atlantic reported in December 2015, Kamala was, quote,
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The Senate candidate driving Democrats crazy. According to The Atlantic, quote,
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One stay, one hotel, $1,886. That's how much Kamala Harris's campaign spent this March
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to put up the California Senate candidate at Washington's luxurious St. Regis Hotel.
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A review of the Harris campaign's Federal Election Commission reports reveals it was far
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from a one-time splurge. In June, the campaign spent $1,500 to house Harris for a night at
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Houston's posh Houstonian Hotel. In July, it was another night at the St. Regis, this time for $1,600.
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In Chicago, it was the Waldorf Astoria. In Boston, the Four Seasons. And on four occasions this year,
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Harris's campaign paid for rooms at the Pricey W Hotel in Los Angeles. The total price tag for these
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first-class accommodations, almost $18,000. Campaigns typically shell out big bucks on media
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buys, staff salaries, and expensive fundraisers. But spending it on housing, particularly when far
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cheaper options are available, is atypical, campaign veterans say, and even Harris's fellow
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Democrats have taken notice. But Kamala Harris was, in her own eyes, a star. And she deserved star
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treatment. Kamala's bad campaign habits didn't cost her anything in 2016. But they would come
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back to bite her down the road. For now, though, Kamala's star was on the rise. Kamala Harris had
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gone from California bar failure to California senator, from Willie Brown's lover to Barbara
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Boxer's seat. And Senator Kamala Harris had her eyes on just one target, the 2020 presidential election.
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