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Kamala Harris Seizes the Moment. Again.

The senator from California consistently cut through the noise during the second night of the first Democratic debates, in Miami.
Source: Richard Vogel / AP / Paul Spella / The Atlantic

Give Kamala Harris credit for a keen sense of timing.

Within the first 20 minutes, night two of the first Democratic presidential-primary debates had descended into the circus that many in the party had feared: a cacophony of unintelligible noise, as 10 candidates crammed onto a single stage all tried to talk over one another, gesturing to the moderators, desperate for a

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