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Rep. Barbara Lee says this would be Shirley Chisholm’s message to Kamala Harris and Democrats today

No one has fought more in Congress to keep alive Shirley Chisholm’s legacy than U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee. The 78-year-old California lawmaker counts the late Chisholm as a mentor and friend.  Despite making history as the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968 and the first Black American and Black woman to run for U.S. president in 1972, it took years for the “Unbought and Unbossed” congresswoman’s trailblazing career to be recognized on Capitol Hill. “When I came to […]

todayNovember 30, 2024

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Kamala Harris considers 2026 run for governor and 2028 presidential comeback

After a devastating and decisive loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris is keeping her “options open” about her political future once she leaves office next year.  Harris has told her advisors and close allies, “I am staying in the fight,” Politico reports. What that fight looks like, however, remains up in the air.  According to Harris’ inner circle, the vice president is considering running for governor of California when Gov. Gavin Newsom’s term-limited […]

todayNovember 25, 2024

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Kamala Harris raised $1 billion-plus in defeat. She’s still sending persistent appeals to donors

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election. Democrats are sending persistent appeals to Harris supporters without expressly asking them to cover any potential debts, enticing would-be donors instead with other matters: the Republican president-elect’s picks for his upcoming administration and a handful of pending congressional contests where ballots are still being tallied. “The Harris campaign certainly spent […]

todayNovember 18, 2024

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Oprah Winfrey shuts down rumors of being paid $1M by Kamala Harris’ campaign

Oprah Winfrey is dispelling negative rumors surrounding her involvement in Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. This week, the media mogul was approached by a TMZ reporter in Los Angeles, who asked for her thoughts on the elections. Though Winfrey declined to share any comments about the outcome, she made it clear that there was no payola for her endorsement.  “Not true,” she told the reporter when asked if she was paid $1 million for her endorsement. “I was paid […]

todayNovember 13, 2024

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Without Kamala Harris in the White House, Democrats look to Hakeem Jeffries

As Democrats continue licking their wounds after the stunning defeat of Kamala Harris by President-elect Donald Trump, all eyes are on Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), whose party in Congress has a slim chance of regaining a majority in the House of Representatives.If Democrats can win the House, it would give the party its only hope of slowing Trump’s agenda from being enacted. Jeffries, a 54-year-old congressman from Brooklyn, New York, would also become House speaker, making history as the first […]

todayNovember 11, 2024

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Kamala Harris: Breaking barriers as America’s first female vice president

Everybody knows Kamala Harris. She’s the current Democratic candidate for president, the first Black and South Asian vice president and the former attorney general of California. It’s an undoubtedly impressive resume, and even more so when you take into account how rare these achievements are for a woman of color in the historically white — and male-dominated halls of American government. But unless you’ve studied up on her life and career, there’s probably still a lot more you don’t know […]

todayNovember 11, 2024

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Exit polls show majority of Black men and women voted for Kamala Harris

Despite much hand-wringing about whether Black men would jump ship from the Democratic Party and vote in droves for Donald Trump, election exit polls tell a different story. Early exit polls from The Washington Post show that 78% of Black men voted for Kamala Harris. The vice president’s numbers were just one point under those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020. “We said early on, based on our data, that the mainstream media was going to continue to prepare to […]

todayNovember 9, 2024

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For Black Democrats, Kamala Harris’ defeat to Trump is personal

Democrats are still working through the stages of grief after Kamala Harris’ stunning defeat to Donald Trump. Based on conversations theGrio had with elected officials, staff and strategists, Black Democrats, in particular, are struggling to grapple with Harris falling short of making history as the nation’s first female and Black woman president. U.S. Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands fought back tears during a phone interview with theGrio as she reflected on not just Harris’ defeat but the […]

todayNovember 8, 2024

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Why did Kamala Harris lose the election? Inside the missed messages and Trump’s unexpected gains

For Democrats and Kamala Harris supporters, the question of “what happened” has been floating through text messages, cyberspace, phone calls, and other modes of communication since late last night and early this morning. It may perhaps be a lingering thought for many Americans in the months to come. Republican media mogul Armstrong Williams, who has the ear of Donald Trump, told theGrio the takeaway from this election for Kamala Harris is “they [voters] were not voting for Kamala Harris but […]

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