"She's our DNA": How Kamala Harris' presidential bid is inspiring a network of immigrants

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"She's our DNA": How Kamala Harris' presidential bid is inspiring a network of immigrants to donate and volunteer https://cnn.it/2K3Max4

Washington (CNN)Lorna Owens is cajoling friends to get involved in the 2020 presidential race over coffee at her neighborhood Starbucks in Miami. In nearby Miramar, Florida, Dahlia Walker-Huntington is sending WhatsApp messages to dozens of contacts around the country. And outside Boston, Ramesh Kapur is busy organizing fundraisers in Cleveland, Chicago and beyond.

All three are part of a small, but growing, network of political fundraisers in the Jamaican and Indian diaspora in the US who have sprung into action in recent months with a single purpose: Help California Sen. Kamala Harris win the presidency.

Even in the most diverse group of presidential contenders ever fielded by Democrats, Harris stands out. If elected president, the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother would be not only the first woman, but the first Indian American, the first Asian, the first black woman and the first person of Jamaican descent to ascend to the office...

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