Kamala Harris recalls beating a 'tough Jersey girl' in her first-ever campaign during Philly visit with Mayor Parker

Vice President Kamala Harris visited a group of student leaders from colleges across Philadelphia on Tuesday in a brief campaign stop in which she recalled her first run for office: Freshman Class Representative of the Liberal Arts Student Council at Howard University.

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker burst out in laughter and cheers at the reminiscence.

”Mayor, it was a tough race,” Harris said at the event at Community College of Philadelphia. “I ran against this girl from Jersey and she was tough, but I was from Oakland, so we were alright.”

Harris, who was in town for a conversation with journalists from the National Association of Black Journalists at WHYY studios, stopped to mark National Voter Registration Day on the college campus in the Spring Garden neighborhood.



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