While many people celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2007 with ambitions to overcome the financial crisis, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris spent the holiday at then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign headquarters.

Obama ran a successful 2008 presidential campaign, becoming the first black president and winning in a landslide against then-Sen. John McCain. Harris witnessed it in person, and in 2024 against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, she is emulating aspects of it.

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