Sen. Harris, a woman who is both black and Indian American, wondered aloud if 'America was ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United States of America.” [Updates headline, additional context of Sen. Harris' comments]
In May, Sen. Kamala Harris stood before the largest chapter of the NAACP and focused her remarks around one subject: electability.
Leah Wright Rigueur, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, told ABC News that for “most of the country ... gender is not a hindrance to people voting for a political candidate.” According to her obituary in The New York Times, in 1982 she told the Associated Press that"I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black...When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men."
“It can't simply be that she is a black woman,” said Wright Rigueur, pointing to Harris’ struggles in places where she should be polling well, such as her home state of California. The largely African American crowd warmly received Harris’ remarks in the midst of her slow climb up the polls. A month later she would tangle with former Vice President Joe Biden over busing and race at the June presidential debate.
At the Essence Festival, one of the largest African American events in the country, Harris would double down on her pitch to black voters.
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