The Biden campaign has been happy, and somewhat relieved, with Harris’s introduction. As Harris mended fences with Black activists, a group of influential African American women in Washington mobilized a campaign to pressure the Biden campaign to select a Black woman. A seasoned campaign operative herself, she did not want to dictate from the outside what a presidential campaign should do. But later that night, she said, she thought about the campaign paraphernalia in her basement, including buttons from the 1984 Democratic presidential campaign. “Walter Mondale considered everyone but a Black woman,” Brazile said.

Source: Washington Post August 15, 2020 23:32 UTC