What Happened to Kamala Harris?

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When Senator Kamala Harris started her presidential campaign 10 months ago, she drew a crowd of 20,000 to her kickoff rally — the biggest of any candidate’s. She was talked about as a potential heir to the political coalition that carried Barack Obama to the White House. We followed her campaign to South Carolina to explore why, after such fanfare, she’s now polling in the single digits. Guest: Astead W. Herndon, a national political reporter for The New York Times, and Monika Evstatieva, a producer on “The Daily.” For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:Ms. Harris said she wanted relevant policy, not “a beautiful sonnet.” Here are the signature issues of her campaign.We asked 21 candidates the same 18 questions. Hear Kamala Harris’s answers.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Moniquev Statieva and I'm a producer for the Daily and I am here with a
0:09.1	stead, a stead introduce yourself.
0:11.8	Hi, I'm a steadhurned in, I'm a politics reporter covering the election and I'm driving
0:17.2	on a very long highway.
0:19.5	We're driving on a very long highway in South Carolina because we came here to try to
0:25.8	answer an interesting question.
0:28.4	What is that question?
0:31.0	What happened to Kamala Harris' presidential campaign that took her from top tier front
0:36.9	runner status to the middle of the pack?
0:40.2	Okay, let's try to figure this out.
0:48.4	From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:51.2	This is the Daily.
0:54.0	When Senator Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign 10 months ago, she drew a crowd of
1:00.6	20,000 jerk kickoff rally, the biggest of any candidate and was talked about as a potential
1:08.4	heir to the political coalition that carried Barack Obama to the White House twice.
1:14.9	Today, she's polling in the single digits.
1:19.8	My colleagues, a steadhurned in and Monica F. Tierra went to South Carolina with the Harris
1:26.6	campaign.
1:37.4	It's Wednesday, November 20.
1:45.5	Said and I are in the car, we're driving from the Capitok, Columbia to Greenwood and Greenwood
1:51.6	is a small town.
1:53.1	Folks are in suits.
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