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    After promising start, Kamala Harris looks for ways to break through

    Jun 11, 2019 5 minutes

    Kamala Harris has always been a trailblazer. As the daughter of immigrant parents – her mother came from India and her father from Jamaica – she was the first woman elected (twice) as California’s attorney general, and the second African American woman elected to the United States Senate, which she entered two years ago. From the moment she got there, the chattering classes began speculating about White House ambitions.

    Those lofty expectations seemed justified when she launched her presidential campaign in Oakland, California, in January, drawing an enormous crowd of about 20,000 people. She’s since brought in some big endorsements, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and an impressive fundraising haul.

    What Senator Harris hasn’t been able to do of late is break past 10% in national polls.

    The California senator’s struggle to gain momentum reflects the unwieldy nature of

    Second, but not firstCrisp and on pointRecalibrating her pitch

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