Kamala Harris is preparing to lead Democrats in 2024. There are lessons from her 2020 bid
Associated PressATLANTA — Kamala Harris was greeted by a massive, cheering crowd during the first rally of her newly announced presidential campaign in 2019. “Look, there’s been no roadmap for Kamala Harris,” said Donna Brazile, a former Democratic National Committee chair and one of the prominent Black Democrats who urged Biden to pick Harris in 2020. “That thing was a free-for-all,” said Boyd Brown, a former Democratic National Committee member who backed former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke for the nomination. “Joe Biden has always been our guy,” said Antjuan Seawright, a prominent Black Democratic consultant in South Carolina, explaining that it was never a rejection of Harris. Biden himself ran “a lousy presidential campaign” in 2007-08, Brown noted, only to become Obama’s vice president and eventually take down Trump.