Sen. Kamala Harris’s role in Democrats’ response to George Floyd’s killing comes as Joe Biden is under renewed pressure to pick a black woman to be his running mate. Some major donors are specifically backing the former prosecutor.
As a presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris repeatedly tried to explain her record on criminal justice and told voters stories about her family’s history of activism in the civil-rights movement.
But Ms. Harris was met with skepticism, especially from progressives who wrote her off because of her career in law enforcement, which helped to lead the California senator to drop out of the race much earlier than expected.
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