WASHINGTON — Sen. Kamala Harris is the potential 2020 Democratic
presidential candidate generating the most excitement among the black
political elite, according to participants at this year’s Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation policy forum in Washington.
It’s still way too soon for endorsements —
none of the major potential candidates are even in the race yet and
elected officials say they’re more focused on the 2018 mid-terms than
the next presidential contest — but Harris, a California Democrat who is
in her first year in the Senate, has emerged at the center of
attention.
In interviews with more than a dozen political
insiders and CBC members here, Harris’ outreach to other political
leaders, her attention to issues of importance to voters of color, her
perceived ferocity, and even her status as a graduate of a historically
black college — Howard University — were cited as reasons she’s emerged
as an early, if far from prohibitive, favorite.
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