“Her candidacy sets us on fire; she looks like me, she represents me!” Annette Johnson, obsidian face under a cowboy hat with a rim, can’t find enough words to praise Kamala Harris. Like all the delegates at the Democratic convention in Chicago, at the end of August, the Indiana elected official is euphoric. The new presidential candidate has made up for the deficit accumulated in the polls by Joe Biden against the Republican Donald Trump. She has become a phenomenon. While the election promises to be very close, the Democrats now have every chance of keeping the White House in November.
In Chicago, Kamala Harris was not the most inspiring speaker, and she does not have a long-standing fan base like Michelle Obama or the leftist Senator Elizabeth Warren. But she came to win, with method and determination. She appeared strictly dressed in a black pantsuit, almost in prosecutorial garb. She was not Joe Biden’s deputy who got a standing ovation: she was the tenacious woman who wants to bring down Donald Trump.
