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And now that the president has announced his withdrawal from the race and publicly declared his support for her, she could become the first woman, and moreover, black, president of the United States.
"We have always seen her as an ambitious and very talented woman, capable of excellence. But we never thought he could reach the top because of his lack of discipline, his inability to focus on what really matters. He's talented, but he's a diamond in the rough." The trial of Kamala Harris by Gil Duran, who was her spokesman ten years ago when she was California's attorney general, is a good guide to delving into the controversial history of a character who fascinated, divided and then frustrated American progressives.
And now that the president has announced his withdrawal from the race and publicly declared his support for her, she could become the first woman, and moreover, black, president of the United States. Or, more likely, be defeated by a Donald Trump, who is flying in the polls on the wings of endangered martyrdom and can count on the support of an underground America that has never digested African-American Obama and now, between misogyny and racially motivated reservations, wants to block Kamala's path. While she does not even enjoy the support of her own party: some leaders have resigned themselves to the inevitability of her candidacy, given her institutional role, while other powerful Democrats are trying to make way for other candidates.
Extraordinary day for one who is trying to recover from the many mistakes that marked three and a half years as vice president. And also from the talk shows on which, to make her likable, they call her "Momala" (the term used by her husband's children to avoid calling her a stepmother): America needs a strong leader, not a figurehead mother. She is making an effort, with some success, to appear more presidential: confident and confident in her recent rallies and in the same response to JD Vance, Trump's pick for vice president.
But dogged everywhere by her reputation as a leader who delivers off-centre speeches: she digresses rather than gets to the point. And, then, Biden, who first saved her from political failure by crowning her vice president (also a candidate for the nomination, she didn't even make it to the start of the 2020 primaries due to the implosion of the her campaign, amid disputes that she was unable to govern and electoral funds mysteriously disappeared), but then left her in semi-obscurity. From which he pulled him by giving him the impossible mission to curb illegal immigration.
When, in 2016, she arrived on the national political scene, popularly elected Senator of California, many (including the person writing this article) saw in her the potential future leader of the Democrats and of an America that will be in majority. in 2045. black: half African-American (father a Jamaican economist) half Indian (mother a university professor engaged in cancer research), she looked like a kind of female version of Obama to be proposed for post-Trump: competent (judicial career), tough (harsh in punishing criminals, jailing even those who commit non-violent crimes despite being politically progressive), ambitious, but apparently also empathetic and seductive with twinkling eyes and attractive smile.
Sharp elbows
Up to that point in his career he had shown determination, ability and a certain unscrupulousness. Born in 1964, born in Oakland, the industrial city on the bay overlooking San Francisco, in the late 1990s she managed to get into the San Francisco District Attorney's office by repeatedly elbowing him (nicknamed for this "sharp elbows"). When she ran for California attorney general, she promised that, as a good progressive, she would fight against the death penalty. He won, but then in court strongly defended the death penalty, while continuing to oppose it on a personal level.
As a senator she started off on the right foot by protecting the environment, fighting crime, protecting women's right to have an abortion, but soon decided to try to move from Capitol Hill, the seat of Congress, to the White House. She triumphed in the first debate between the Democratic candidates by accusing Biden of opposing racial integration in the 1970s, also penalizing her, then a child. But the subsequent debates were disastrous for her and, unable to avoid disbanding her electoral team, she gave up her candidacy before the election began.
Recovered by Biden, who chose her as a congressman unfazed by the insults she suffered, Kamala has always appeared an enigmatic figure. Incapable of having an impact on decisive issues, accustomed to answering even the most direct questions with long and inconclusive answers, she was ridiculed on social networks for her smiles, which often became exaggerated, laughing convulsions, tremors of the whole body. Now he tries to give a different presidential image. And it can also boast of considerable experience in the international field. It will hardly be enough./Adapted "Pamphlet" From "Corriere della Sera"
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