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How Kamala Harris took command of the Democratic Party in 48 hours

By Shane Goldmacher
New York Times·
8 mins to read

Late on Sunday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris summoned a small clutch of her closest advisers and allies to the Naval Observatory, where she lives and works, with little notice and even less information.

President Joe Biden had informed Harris earlier that morning that he was withdrawing from the race. The vice president had assembled her team so that the exact moment Biden formally quit, at 1.46pm — one minute after the president had informed his own senior

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