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Iowa Democrats see a fighter in Kamala Harris. But can they see a winner?

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa - Young men in Elizabeth Warren T-shirts gawked and pointed their cameras as Kamala Harris worked the crowd in Iowa. A group wearing black Andrew Yang shirts asked her for a photo.

And on the sidelines of the Democratic Wing Ding Dinner, an Iowa political rite of passage, an older woman trying to find her friend for a selfie with the senator got a little help from Harris, who cranked up the goofy warmth she sometimes radiates on the campaign trail.

"Owen! Where are you?" Harris hollered, gesturing jokingly over the crowd, as the beaming woman instead recorded what was essentially a private campaign ad with an intended audience of Owen. "I'm looking all over the Wing Ding for you. I can't - Owen? Has anyone seen Owen? I can't find you

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