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It was around 11 o'clock on election night when Steve Kool-E declared victory in the California Attorney General's race.

Highly paid trust and advisers say maybe a little too early, I'd be clearing victory.

At that point, he had a narrow lead over Kamala Harris.

But his claim to victory was more than a little too early.

Within hours Kamala was back on top by 22,000 votes.

The morning after the election returns from LA County came in and they came in really strong for Kamala.

And that, you know, we knew was a huge boost for us.

Her campaign manager, Brian Brokaw, was waiting and watching the returns still coming in.

And so, you know, over the next basically three weeks we went through this day by day ping pong essentially.

Kool-E being up, Harris being up, Kool-E, Harris.

And at a certain point, you just had to stop letting the momentary defeats take a toll and, you know, started trusting the projections.

Then finally, the day before Thanksgiving, Steve Kool-E reversed his election declaration of victory and called Kamala to concede.

She was on an airplane just waiting for it to leave.

I think I spoke to her briefly. Before I spoke to her, I spoke to an aide.

I don't, it was not a long conversation. It was just very quick.

You know, I'm going to let you know. The numbers were there. I'm conceding publicly.

Blah blah blah.

And that was it. Ultimately, he says he wasn't surprised by the fact she'd won.

Her strongest strength was she was absolutely committed and dedicated to the objective of winning that contest.

In that sense, total unwavering commitment to advance herself in the political arena. Total dedication.

On Monday, January 3rd, 2011, Kamala Harris was sworn in as the Attorney General of California.

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