Politico's at it again. Kamala is 'ruthless'.
Harris, now a U.S. senator from California who announced her candidacy for president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, often speaks about her childhood growing up on the boundary between Oakland and Berkeley, the daughter of an Indian-born mother and a Jamaican-born father who pushed her in civil rights marches in a stroller. Her advisers believe that, like Barack Obama once did, Harris could appeal not only to white progressives in 2020 Democratic primary states like Iowa and California but also to black voters in the primary’s critical Southern states.
Harris has drawn on her record as a prosecutor, both in San Francisco and as California attorney general, to lend an intimacy to her progressive views on criminal justice reform. Yet she has struggled to reconcile her work as a prosecutor with the Democratic Party’s evolution on criminal justice in the age of the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. Her first race for district attorney—and her entry into San Francisco’s fractious Democratic Party politics—reared her as a politician and offered a preview of her still-unfolding efforts to resolve those tensions with some of the party’s most leftward-tilting voters. San Francisco has sprung the careers of a catalog of Democratic politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and California Gov. Gavin Newsom—all products, perhaps, of the intense, intraparty skirmishes in a politically homogeneous city of fewer than 1 million people.
“The San Francisco political arena is one of the most challenging, frankly, in America,” Art Agnos, a former San Francisco mayor, said. “We only have one member of Congress, two members of the Assembly, a state senator and a half representing the city.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/24/kamala-harris-2020-history-224126
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