Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee in the race for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat, recalls flying to California in June 2016, the weekend before the state’s primary election that year, to join now-Vice President Kamala Harris as she campaigned for U.S. Senate.
“What struck me during the time that I was there was that the weekend before this very exciting race, she was not talking about herself. She wasn’t even talking about her race. She was talking about me — asking me how things were going with me, with the job. She was asking about various issues, giving advice,” Alsobrooks said in an interview with WYPR.
That, in a nutshell, is who Harris is, Alsobrooks said.
“They say politicians talk about themselves, but what we know is leaders talk about others, and Vice President Harris is a leader,” she said.
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