Morning Jolt: The Chronically Underestimated Kamala Harris

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

October 21 2024

The Chronically Underestimated Kamala Harris

On the menu today: I have no beef with Charlie Cooke's brilliant trilogy, "A-hole, Lunatic, Idiot." But I do think the caricature of Kamala Harris as a bumbling dunce makes it easy to underestimate her, particularly in the closing weeks of an exceptionally close and high-stakes presidential campaign. Harris's past is littered with older and more experienced men who saw her as easy pickings and came up short on Election Day. Read on to learn how Harris's political career got started, her connection to Clint Eastwood, how she persuaded the wealthiest and most powerful elites of San Francisco to back her when she was a little-known underdog, the BMW she received as a gift, who ended her relationship with Willie Brown, and the speculation that Halle Berry would play her in a movie someday.

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