Gov. Gavin Newsom received a boost from a familiar face Wednesday when his longtime political ally Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the Bay Area to campaign for him against the GOP-led recall
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Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Gavin Newsroom and First Lady Jennifer Seibel-Newsom acknowledge the crowd at an anti-recall rally in San Leandro. They leapt to statewide office together in 2011 when she became attorney general and he took on the role of lieutenant governor. Four years later, she announced her plan to run for former Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat, and Newsom followed the next month with an early declaration of his intent to run for governor three years before the 2018 election.
“He has the courage and he’s had it his entire career to believe in and know what is possible,” Harris said. “An ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been.” “A standalone appearance isn’t going to be decisive in this whole thing, but it does send the message that Democrats are unified from top to bottom unlike in 2003,” said Garry South, a senior political advisor to former Gov. Gray Davis.Some Democrats had become disillusioned with Davis, South said, and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante’s candidacy helped fuel a split within the party nearly two decades ago.John Kerry and other Democratic presidential hopefuls stumped for Davis.
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