From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.

Over the next few days at the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris will accept

her party's nomination and reintroduce herself to American voters.

Today, my colleague, Astead Herndon, looks at the key periods in Harris's life that explain who she is, what she believes, and the kind of president she might become. It's Monday, Monday, August 19th. And said, thank you for coming in here.

He said, thank you for having me.

I'm happy to be here.

So the strange thing about this election, I mean there are a

lot of strange things about this. Yeah, I'm like one. One of the strange things about this

election is that we have a Democratic nominee who has been the nominee for what four weeks yeah and did not go

through the kind of year-long public dissection that generally occurs when you run

for president and makes everybody very familiar

with your life story by the time you become the nominee.

And we actually keep hearing that when we go out and report about Harris.

A lot of people, they're interested in her,

but they don't really know who she is.

And that's why we want to talk to you.

We want to tell the story of Kamala Harris

in as full a way as possible and you have spent the past couple of

years doing that not knowing that we would arrive at this moment but just because

it was a story that you got really interested in.

So how do you think about the life story of Comel Harris?

Yeah, I think there is often an incentive to try to get an easy answer to who is Kamla Harris or what does she believe in.

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