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Barack Obama 2.0? Kamala Harris’ campaign to be US president draws inevitable comparison

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Former President Barack Obama hugs Vice President Kamala Harris during an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House on April 5, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama endorsed Harris' bid for the White House on July 26, 2024, delivering a major boost to her campaign to defeat Donald Trump in November's presidential election. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Like Mr Obama, Ms Harris excites young minority voters who seem to be disillusioned with Mr Biden and unsure about Trump. 

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In the nearly four weeks since Ms Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, she has generated outsized enthusiasm.

Merely by setting foot on the stage, she has gladdened the hearts of Democrats who had feared for months that they would lose the election because of US President Joe Biden’s plunging popularity.  

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