MSNBC Hires Kamala Harris’s Sister as Political
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MSNBC has hired Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) sister as a political analyst.
The network announced on Tuesday that Maya Harris, a civil rights attorney who was one of Hillary Clinton’s top policy advisers during the 2016 campaign, would be joining the network.
Harris was reportedly a “partner with Hillary” in developing the campaign’s domestic policy agenda during Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. According to a New Yorker profile, Harris worked on “issues of race, gender, economic empowerment, criminal justice, policing, immigration, voting rights, and executive action” and would have been given a “top job in the West Wing” had Clinton won the election.
She also had, according to the New Yorker, “one of the most important, and difficult, jobs in Clinton’s campaign—persuading the electorate, and black voters especially, that Clinton” was “worthy of their trust.”
Harris’ efforts may have been a bit more complicated when her close friend from Stanford Law School and The New Jim Crow author, Michelle Alexander, thunderously denounced the Clintons for screwing over blacks in a 2016 Nation essay titled, “Why Hillary Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.”
According to the Census, black Americans “showed the sharpest decline in voter turnout– 7.1 percent since 2012. At 59.6 percent, it was the lowest black turnout rate since 2000.”