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  “Like a lot of career”: Ronald Wood (Los Angeles attorney) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “He was the sweetest guy”: Mark Buell (friend of Harris and philanthropist) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “She looked truly very happy”: Erin Lehane (Harris friend) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “these dad moves”: Doug Emhoff (@DouglasEmhoff), “If I Can Do These Dad Moves…,” Twitter, June 30, 2019, https://twitter.com/DouglasEmhoff/status/1145458269298630661?s=20.

  “the evolved hubby”: Manuel Roig-Franzia, “Doug Emhoff Paused His Career for His Wife Kamala Harris’s Aspirations—and Became the Campaign’s ‘Secret Weapon,’ ” Washington Post, October 28, 2020.

  20: WOMAN IN A HURRY

  “I hope so”: Dan Morain, “Kamala Harris Stays on Message, Which Means She Bobs and Weaves,” Sacramento Bee, August 9, 2014.

  “Acapulco Gold”: Debra J. Saunders, “Will California’s Next Top Cop Support Legal Pot?” San Francisco Chronicle, October 10, 2014.

  “Substantial evidence presented”: Jennifer Medina, “Judge Rejects Teacher Tenure for California,” TEACHERWISE (blog), June 10, 2014, https://teacherwise.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/judge-rejects-teacher-tenure-for-california/.

  Harris won only twenty-six: “Statement of Vote: November 4, 2014, General Election,” California Secretary of State, https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2014-general/pdf/2014-complete-sov.pdf, 34–36.

  She was a Republican: Dan Morain, “Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court Leaves the Republican Party, Citing Kavanaugh,” CalMatters, December 13, 2018, https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/12/chief-justice-of-the-california-supreme-court-leaves-the-republican-party-citing-kavanaugh/.

  Harris spoke in ambitious terms: “Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Sworn In, Delivers Inaugural Address,” press release, State of California Department of Justice, January 5, 2015.

  21: JOE BIDEN GIVES HARRIS A HAND

  “She has been dubbed”: Rory Carroll, “Kamala Harris: The ‘Female Obama’ Plots Her Course on the Road to Washington,” Guardian (UK edition), January 14, 2015.

  “smart, tough, and experienced”: Elizabeth Warren, “I’m Supporting Kamala,” Elizabeth Warren for Senate, January 14, 2015, https://elizabethforma.com/im-supporting-kamala/.

  “exactly the kind of leader”: Dan Morain, “Harris’ Senate Ambitions Now Are More Sizzle than Substance,” Sacramento Bee, January 17, 2015.

  “His loyalty and his relationship”: Christopher Cadelago, “Willie Brown: Villaraigosa Should Sit Out U.S. Senate Race,” Sacramento Bee, January 23, 2015.

  It was a fundamentally offensive: “Willie Brown’s Guide to Losing Friends and Alienating Voters,” editorial, Sacramento Bee, January 27, 2015.

  She is one of seven kids: Michael Finnegan, “Loretta Sanchez’s Public Image a Factor in Senate Race,” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2015.

  she was prone to gaffes: Dan Morain, “Dan Morain: Loretta Sanchez Runs Against Kamala Harris and Herself,” Sacramento Bee, January 22, 2016.

  broke into an odd dance move: Kenny Ducey, “A History of Cam Newton and the ‘Dab,’ ” Sports Illustrated, February 7, 2016, https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/02/07/nfl-super-bowl-cam-newton-dab-dance-celebration#:~:text=Back%20in%20October%2C%20Cam%20Newton,for%20making%20the%20dance%20popular.

  press was denied access: Carla Marinucci, “Kamala Harris’ ‘Bizarre’ Move: No Press at Kickoff Event,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 2015.

  “spending hundreds of thousands”: Christopher Cadelago, “Kamala Harris Spending Big Chunk of Money Raised for Senate Race,” Sacramento Bee, October 29, 2015.

  a campaign shake-up: Phil Willon, “Kamala Harris Shakes Up Senate Campaign Staff,” Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2015.

  Then an anvil fell: Alex Roarty, “Posh Hotels and Pricey Airfare: Meet the Senate Candidate Driving Democrats Crazy,” Atlantic, December 6, 2015.

  To have even an outside chance: Dan Morain, “Harris’ Senate Ambitions Now Are More Sizzle Than Substance,” Sacramento Bee, January 17, 2015.

  “Our people are not the problem”: Dan Morain, “Joe Biden Calls for Some Political Civility in Uncivil Times,” Sacramento Bee, March 5, 2016.

  Sanchez blundered: Phil Willon and Jazmine Ulloa, “Rep. Loretta Sanchez Implies Obama Endorsed Senate Rival because They Are Both Black,” Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2016.

  22: PICKING HER SHOTS

  “When you have a candidate”: Christopher Cadelago, “Loretta Sanchez, Kamala Harris Wrangle Over Trump University,” Sacramento Bee, September 14, 2016.

  “isolated” and “impatient”: Floyd Norris, “Corinthian Colleges Faltering as Flow of Federal Money Slows, New York Times, June 26, 2014.

  The company nearly doubled: Chris Kirkham, “Corinthian Closing Its Last Schools; 10,000 California Students Displaced,” Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2015.

  Warren also was one of a dozen: “Twelve Senators Urge Education Department to Protect Students while Continuing Oversight of Other For-Profit Colleges,” U.S. Senate Committee on Heath, Education, Labor & Pensions, June 26, 2014, https://www.help.senate.gov/ranking/newsroom/press/twelve-senators-urge-education-department-to-protect-students-while-continuing-oversight-of-other-for-profit-colleges.

  23: FIGHTING THE FOREVER WAR

  On its website, Planned Parenthood’s: “9 Reasons to Love Kamala Harris,” Planned Parenthood, https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/elections/kamala-harris (accessed October 27, 2020).

  In July 2015, he and an entity: Paige St. John, “Kamala Harris’ Support for Planned Parenthood Draws Fire after Raid on Anti-Abortion Activist,” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2016.

  a gunman raving about body parts: Julie Turkewitz and Jack Healy, “3 Are Dead in Colorado Springs Shootout at Planned Parenthood Center,” New York Times, November 27, 2015.

  “Planned Parenthood is a well-respected”: Christopher Cadelago, “Kamala Harris to Review Group behind Planned Parenthood Abortion Videos,” Sacramento Bee, July 24, 2015.

  “They worked at their normal”: Kathy Kneer (president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “ongoing security requests/needs”: Jill E. Habig, email message provided to the author by source, April 5, 2016.

  they seized Daleiden’s computers: St. John, “Kamala Harris’ Support for Planned Parenthood.”

  “We had no advance word”: Kathy Kneer (president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “California has public programs”: Reproductive FACT Act, AB-775, California State Assembly (2015).

  “exists to protect”: “About NIFLA,” NIFLA, https://nifla.org/about-nifla/ (accessed October 27, 2020).

  “Forcing speech is not”: National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, letter to California Assembly Committee, Bill Analysis of Assembly Bill 775, April 14, 2015.

  “Now, we’re finding out”: Dan Morain, “How an Abortion Rights Law Ended Up Bankrolling Anti-Abortion Forces in CA,” CalMatters, November 4, 2019, https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/11/abortion-law-california-settlement-nifla-becerra-daleiden-sekulow/.

  “I am proud to have”: “Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Issues Statement on Governor Brown Signing Reproductive FACT Act into Law,” press release, State of California Department of Justice, October 9, 2015, https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-statement-governor-brown-signing.

  “Licensed clinics must provide”: Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Backs Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers in Free Speech Case,” New York Times, June 26, 2018.

  His legal team consisted of: Morain, “How an Abortion Rights Law Ended Up Bankrolling Anti-Abortion Forces.”

  Attorney General Becerra filed: The People of the State of California v. David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Susan Merritt, San Francisco Superior Court (2017).<
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  “It’s pretty obvious”: “NEW VIDEO: Planned Parenthood and Kamala Harris Colluded to Weaponize CA Video Recording Law against Disfavored Speech,” Center for Medical Progress, October 6, 2020, https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2020/10/new-video-planned-parenthood-and-kamala-harris-colluded-to-weaponize-ca-video-recording-law-against-disfavored-speech/.

  24: “GO GET ’EM”

  “Human trafficking is a modern”: The State of Human Trafficking in California, Human Trafficking Work Group, California Department of Justice, 2012.

  Craigslist, under pressure: Claire Cain Miller, “Craigslist Says It Has Shut Its Section for Sex Ads,” New York Times, September 15, 2010.

  “increasingly concerned about human trafficking”: National Association of Attorneys General letter to Samuel Fifer, August 31, 2011.

  “to investigate and prosecute”: National Association of Attorneys General letter to Senators John Rockefeller IV and John Thune and Representatives Frederick Upton and Henry Waxman, July 23, 2013.

  “made me sick to my stomach”: Maggy Krell (former California Department of Justice; special counsel to Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  California unsealed the complaint: “Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Criminal Charges against Senior Corporate Officers of Backpage.com for Profiting from Prostitution and Arrest of Carl Ferrer, CEO,” press release, State of California Department of Justice, October 6, 2016, https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-criminal-charges-against-senior.

  “Somebody needed to start it”: Carissa Phelps (advocate for children; author and attorney) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “This is a frightening abuse”: Mike Masnick, “Merry Christmas: Kamala Harris Files Brand New Criminal Charges against Backpage Execs after Last Ones Were Tossed Out,” Techdirt (blog), December 23, 2016, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161223/15495736339/merry-christmas-kamala-harris-files-brand-new-criminal-charges-against-backpage-execs-after-last-ones-were-tossed-out.shtml.

  California could pursue money laundering: Don Thompson, “Judge Allows Money Laundering Charges against Backpage Execs,” Associated Press, August 23, 2017.

  On April 9, 2018: Tom Jackman and Mark Berman, “Top Officials at Backpage.com Indicted after Classifieds Site Taken Offline,” Washington Post, April 9, 2018.

  The federal case resulted: United States of America v. Michael Lacey, CR-18-00422-PHX-SPL (BSB) (D. Ariz. 2018).

  25: “I INTEND TO FIGHT”

  “drawing all the interest”: George Skelton, “Capitol Journal: Few Are Paying Attention to California’s Senate Contest—because It May Be Putting Them to Sleep,” Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2016.

  a failed businessman armed: Julie Tamaki and Dan Morain, “Baffling Portrait of S.F. Gunman Emerges,” Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1993.

  “She tried to be reassuring”: Erin Lehane (Harris friend) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “Those in the know point”: Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, “How Kamala Harris Turned U.S. Senate Contest into a Cakewalk,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 2016.

  “Auntie Kamala, that man”: K. Harris, Truths We Hold, ii.

  “Do we retreat or do we fight?”: KCRA-Sacramento, “Kamala Harris Election Night Speech, 2016,” YouTube video, May 1, 2016, http://bit.ly/1kjRAAn.

  “You are not alone”: Phil Willon, “Newly Elected Kamala Harris Vows to Defy Trump on Immigration,” Los Angeles Times, November 10, 2016.

  26: STEPPING ONTO THE NATIONAL STAGE

  roughly the same amount that Warren: Katharine Q. Seelye, “A New Senator, Known Nationally and Sometimes Feared,” New York Times, November 10, 2012.

  One silver lining: Amber Phillips, “One Election Bright Spot for Democrats: Women of Color,” Washington Post, November 10, 2016.

  “Hey, Kamala, you got any interest”: Ron Wyden (senior U.S. Senator for Oregon) in discussion with the author’s researcher, Josh Meyer, October 2020.

  When Schumer announced: “Schumer Announces Senate Democratic Committee Memberships for the 115th Congress,” press release, December 20, 2016, http://static.politico.com/be/b6/1ba2e7f1465fadebe406e448aaad/senate-democratic-committee-assignments.pdf.

  “These four committees will be”: “Harris Appoints Community Leader, Veteran Organizer and Champion of Immigrant Communities to Lead State Operation,” press release, Kamala D. Harris, December 18, 2016, https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/harris-appoints-community-leader-veteran-organizer-and-champion-of-immigrant-communities-to-lead-state-operation.

  27: THE RESISTANCE

  “This is a remarkable public servant”: Nomination of John F. Kelly, Hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, 115th Cong., 1st Sess., January 10, 2017.

  40 percent of the population: Hans Johnson and Sergio Sanchez, “Just the Facts: Immigrants in California,” Public Policy Institute of California, May 2019, https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/.

  “Unfortunately, I can’t look Dreamers”: Ron Wyden (senior U.S. Senator for Oregon) in discussion with the author’s researcher, Josh Meyer, October 2020.

  “Russian efforts to influence”: Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, January 6, 2017, https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf.

  “there was absolutely no effect”: Greg Miller and Adam Entous, “Declassified Report Says Putin ‘Ordered’ Effort to Undermine Faith in U.S. Election and Help Trump,” Washington Post, January 6, 2017.

  U.S. spy agencies had unverified: Ibid.

  “We’ve done what we can”: Open Hearing on the Intelligence Community’s Assessment on Russian Activities and Intentions in the 2016 U.S. Elections, Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, 115th Cong., 1st Sess., January 10, 2017.

  “Do you fully accept its findings”: Open Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Hon. Mike Pompeo to Be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, 115th Cong., 1st Sess., January 12, 2017.

  “who serve often”: “Senator Kamala D. Harris Presses Pompeo on Russian Interference in the Election & National Security Impact of Global Climate Change,” press release, Kamala D. Harris, January 12, 2017, https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-kamala-d-harris-presses-pompeo-on-russian-interference-in-the-election-and-national-security-impact-of-global-climate-change.

  28: “I’M ASKING THE QUESTIONS”

  “will become a self-inflicted wound”: Nicholas Fandos, “Growing Number of G.O.P. Lawmakers Criticize Trump’s Refugee Policy,” New York Times, January 29, 2017.

  “Why are you calling”: K. Harris, Truths We Hold, 157.

  “Would you let me finish once?”: Ian Schwartz, “Let Me at Least Finish Once Before You Interrupt Me,” RealClear Politics, June 6, 2017.

  “Can you give me”: Jeremy Herb, “Senators Try to Quiet Harris, but She Doesn’t Back Down,” CNN, June 7, 2017.

  “RT this if you’ve ordered”: Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris), “RT This If You’ve Ordered…,” Twitter, June 10, 2017, https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/873678921841201152?s=20.

  “Smoke the hell”: Jim Spears a.k.a. QuaranTweeting (@QuaereNon), “Smoke the Hell Out of Jeff Sessions Tuesday…,” Twitter, June 10, 2017, https://twitter.com/QuaereNon/status/873679800552103936?s=20.

  “just cut through Jeff Sessions’ bullshit”: Jim Spears (Louisiana college professor) in interview with the author’s researcher, Josh Meyer, October 2020.

  “I’m not able to be rushed”: “Attorney General Testimony on Russian Investigation,” C-SPAN, June 13, 2017, https://www.c-span.org/video/?429875-1/attorney-general-calls-collusion-accusations-detestable-lie
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  “I’m not able to answer the question”: Ibid.

  29: “YES OR NO”

  “It is critical we have”: “Senator Harris Returns from Trip to the Middle East,” press release, Kamala D. Harris, April 17, 2017, https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-harris-returns-from-trip-to-the-middle-east.

  “I know I’m not the only one”: Elaine Duke (American civil servant and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security) in discussion with the author’s researcher, Josh Meyer, October 2020.

  “Look, I’ve seen the tweet”: “James Comey: Lordy, I Hope There Are Tapes,” C-SPAN, June 8, 2017, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4672714/james-comey-lordy-hope-tapes.

  “In my interactions with her”: Ron Wyden (senior U.S. Senator for Oregon) in discussion with the author’s researcher, Josh Meyer, October 2020.

  “Kamala Harris comes to play”: Ibid.

  30: HARRIS V. KAVANAUGH

  “We cannot possibly move forward”: “Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing, Day 1, Part 1,” C-SPAN, September 4, 2018, https://www.c-span.org/video/?449704-1/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-begins-amid-democratic-objections-public-protests.

  “Judge, have you ever discussed”: “Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing, Day 2, Part 5,” C-SPAN, September 4, 2018, https://www.c-span.org/video/?449705-15/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-day-2-part-5.

  “You should know that”: Ibid.

  “that nothing seemed to”: Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019), 240.

  “demanding answers”: Ibid., 241.

  “You’ve got to figure”: Ibid., 246.