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  Ford went public: Emma Brown, “California Professor, Writer of Confidential Brett Kavanaugh Letter, Speaks Out about Her Allegation of Sexual Assault,” Washington Post, September 16, 2018.

  “That individual strongly requested”: Ibid.

  “Dr. Ford, first of all”: “Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Hearing, Professor Blasey Ford Testimony,” C-SPAN, September 27, 2018, https://www.c-span.org/video/?451895-1/professor-blasey-ford-testifies-sexual-assault-allegations-part-1.

  In 2019, Time magazine: “Time 100 Most Influential People, 2019,” Time, https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/.

  31: A DEATH IN THE FAMILY

  “Really? Really”: Lorena O’Neil, “Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert Criticize Jason Miller Calling Kamala Harris ‘Hysterical,’ ” Hollywood Reporter, June 15, 2017.

  “hatred and division”: Bill Barrow and Meg Kinnard, “Kamala Harris: Midterms a Fight for ‘the Best of Who We Are,’ ” Associated Press, October 19, 2018.

  “had spoken for all”: Maeve Reston, “Kamala Harris Receives a Hero’s Welcome from Women in Iowa,” CNN, October 25, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/25/politics/kamala-harris-iowa-women/index.html.

  “May Be the Antidote”: Rekha Basu, “Kamala Harris’ Passion, Optimism, Warmth May Be the Antidote to Trump’s Snide Divisiveness,” Des Moines Register, October 23, 2018.

  “everywhere she’s been”: Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Kamala Harris’s Anti-Trump Tour,” Atlantic, October 26, 2018.

  “And she unobtrusively”: Beth Foster Gayle, interview by Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, August 12, 2020.

  “We can honor the ancestors”: “Harris at Spelman College: ‘Go Forward Unburdened, Unwavering, and Undaunted by the Fight,’ ” press release, Kamala D. Harris, October 26, 2018, https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/harris-at-spelman-college-go-forward-unburdened-unwavering-and-undaunted-by-the-fight.

  “a warrior, a gentle friendly warrior”: KCRA-Sacramento, “Tyrone Gayle Memorial Service,” YouTube video, November 10, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DId5FtJ_N48.

  32: “FOR THE PEOPLE”

  “So, I’m supposed to ask”: “Sen. Kamala Harris Says She’s ‘Not Yet Ready’ to Announce if She’ll Run for President,” The View, season 22, episode 77, ABC, January 8, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/theview/video/sen-kamala-harris-shes-ready-announce-shell-run-60236162.

  “The American people deserve”: “Sen. Kamala Harris Announces 2020 Presidential Run,” Good Morning America, ABC, January 21, 2019, https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/sen-kamala-harris-announces-2020-presidential-run-60518540.

  “I’m running to be president”: Kamala Harris, “I’m Running to Be President of the People…,” Facebook, January 28, 2019, https://www.facebook.com/KamalaHarris/posts/im-running-to-be-president-of-the-people-by-the-people-and-for-all-people-im-run/10157431129232923/.

  “the best opening so far”: Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, “Trump, in Interview, Calls Wall Talks ‘Waste of Time’ and Dismisses Investigations,” New York Times, January 31, 2019.

  33: TIMING IS EVERYTHING

  “I’m a big fan”: Jennifer Haberkorn, “Feinstein Says She Supports Joe Biden for 2020, and Notes That Sen. Kamala Harris Is ‘Brand-New Here,’ ” Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2019.

  “Half my family’s from Jamaica”: Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM, “Kamala Harris Talks Gender Pay Gap, Climate Control, Russian Interference + More,” YouTube, July 12, 2019, https://youtu.be/QPwlZxBVoeA.

  “must be turning”: Sinéad Baker, “Kamala Harris’ Father Said She Disgraced Her Jamaican Family by Using a ‘Fraudulent Stereotype’ to Joke About Smoking Weed,” Business Insider, February 21, 2019.

  “the only left-handed”: Chelsea Janes and Amy B. Wang, “Pete Buttigieg Is Ending His Presidential Bid,” Washington Post, March 1, 2020.

  “The question for Ms. Harris”: Julie Bosman and Katie Glueck, “Civil Rights Discussion ‘Shouldn’t Be about the Past,’ Biden Says,” New York Times, June 28, 2019.

  “I thought we were friends”: Arlette Saenz, Jessica Dean, and Eric Bradner, “Joe Biden Previews More Aggressive Approach Ahead of Next Democratic Debate,” CNNPolitics, July 28, 2019.

  “Time after time”: Lara Bazelon, “Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor,’ ” New York Times, January 17, 2019. See also Phil Willon, “Kamala Harris Should Take Bolder Action on Police Shootings, Civil Rights Advocates Say,” Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2016; and Kate Kelly, “How Does Harris View Big Business? Her Time as California’s Top Lawyer Offers Clues,” New York Times, October 30, 2020.

  “put over 1,500 people”: Chris Cillizza, “How You Know Tulsi Gabbard Really Got Under Kamala Harris’ Skin,” CNN, August 1, 2019.

  “This is going to sound immodest”: Ibid.

  “unintended consequence”: Melanie Mason and Michael Finnegan, “Kamala Harris Regrets California Truancy Law That Led to Arrest of Some Parents,” Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2019.

  The New York Times deconstructed: Jonathan Martin, Astead W. Herndon, and Alexander Burns, “How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled,” New York Times, November 29, 2019.

  “We were her only shot”: Brian Brokaw (managed Harris’s 2010 run for attorney general) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “Kamala Harris is ending”: Christopher Cadelago and Caitlin Oprysko, “ ‘One of the Hardest Decisions of My Life’: Kamala Harris Ends Once-Promising Campaign,” Politico, December 3, 2019.

  34: DANCING IN THE RAIN

  “for his trafficking in bigotry”: H. Res. 858, 116th Congress, 2nd Sess. (2019–2020).

  “I decided it would be”: Cynthia Hubert, “Michael Tubbs, One of America’s Youngest Mayors, Aims to Lift His Hometown of Stockton,” Sacramento Bee, April 12, 2017.

  “Tell him Auntie Kamala”: Michael Tubbs (Stockton, California, mayor) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “a punch to the gut”: Alexander Burns and Katie Glueck, “Kamala Harris Is Biden’s Choice for Vice President,” New York Times, August 11, 2020.

  “It was a debate”: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Sen. Kamala Harris on Joining the Biden Ticket: I’d be Honored,” YouTube, June 18, 2020, https://youtu.be/jkTOpWzC9Rc.

  “I didn’t ask for permission”: Eleni Kounalakis (lieutenant governor of California) in discussion with the author, October 2020.

  “You ready to go to work?”: Joey Garrison, et. al, “Inside a Grueling Search for VP; How Joe Biden Came to Choose Kamala Harris,” USA Today, August 14, 2020.

  “There is no one’s opinion”: Joe Biden (@JoeBiden), “I First Met @KamalaHarris…,” Twitter, August 13, 2020, https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1293970573559599105?s=20.

  “would come to school”: Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris), “In High School, I Found Out My Best Friend…,” Twitter, September 23, 2020, https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1308779071204192256?s=20.

  “The U.S. is getting”: Wanda Kagan (longtime friend from high school in Montreal) in discussion with the author’s researcher, Sasha Hupka, November 2020.

  “it was embarrassing”: Peggy Noonan, “A Good Debate, and It’s Not Quite Over,” Wall Street Journal, October 23, 2020.

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