Kamala Harris built her career in the state where she was born, California, and more particularly in the San Francisco Bay, where “Le Temps” visited, in the footsteps of the candidate who could become the first president of the United States
Published on November 2, 2024 at 05:30.
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How did the Democratic candidate build herself in California, to reach the vice-presidency and perhaps soon the White House?
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We went back in time to better understand Kamala Harris. “Her mother taught her to never let others put you in a box,” a childhood friend tells us.
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Report in the footsteps of a real political animal.
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October 20, 2024, is a day of jubilation in Oakland: Kamala Harris celebrates her 60th birthday. The atmosphere is light in the Home of Chicken & Waffles restaurant. Harris-Walz signs abound, we eat and toast to the health of the Democratic candidate. The owner of the place is all smiles and has nothing but complimentary words for her. The adjectives that come to mind to describe her? “Strength, intelligence, tenacity. Terms that characterize all the people here,” says Derreck Johnson.
If he is so peremptory, it is because he knows the region well. His family has been Oakland for three generations, he was a candidate for mayor of the city. Above all, he knows who Kamala Harris is. He was 16 when he met her who was then only a teenager. A friendship quickly develops between the two young people, who see a similarity in their backgrounds: “Oakland is historically a city of blue-collar workers and workers, like his mother or mine, who work hard, who have a very strong sense of the community and who know who they are.”
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