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Gordon Flake

Harris shows Democrats are chasing a broader mandate

Picking the former Californian attorney-general potentially shifts the election from a choice between two old white men to a choice over the future of the country.

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In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 US presidential elections and what was for many Americans and observers around the world a time of shock there were few silver linings.

Some, however, took solace that evening in the election to the United States Senate and the elevation to the national stage of a clear rising star in US politics, former Californian attorney-general Kamala Harris.

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Gordon Flake is professor and chief executive of the Perth USAsia Centre at the University of Western Australia.

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