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While some surrogates for Vice President Kamala Harris blame her historic loss to now-President-elect Donald Trump on President Joe Biden’s late exit from the race, a bevy of former campaign staffers say that thinking is “detached from reality.”
Former San Francisco Democrat Mayor Willie Brown, who dated Harris in the 1990s, says her campaign lost the election because they “read the tea leaves wrong.”
“Not one of them got it right, not one. They did not go back and say, how is it we did not succeed with Hillary is it possible to elect a woman to the presidency in the United States if that answer from all of the processes
say questionable, then you know what you need to do,” Brown whined.
Brown went on to note that Hillary Clinton was “traumatized by her defeat for years,” but thinks Harris will be able to “overcome” this loss and continue in politics.
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When Kamala Harris was a young prosecutor, a much older boyfriend treated her to trips to Paris and the Oscars as well as a BMW, which is believed to have been the catalyst for her meteoric rise in California politics.
The current vice president is well-known for having dated Democratic Party powerbroker Willie Brown in 1994 when he was the speaker of the California Assembly and she was 29, the New York Post reported.
“Over the course of the relationship, Brown gave Harris a BMW, she traveled with him to Paris, attended the Academy Awards,” and he even took her on a business trip to Boston, where he was meeting Donald Trump, according to the 2021 book “Kamala’s Way: An American Life” by journalist Dean Morain.
The Los Angeles Times referred to Harris Brown as Brown’s “frequent companion,” while the Chronicle referred to Harris as “the speaker’s new steady.” Their relationship was well-known in San Francisco.