Another big week for Harris: California Sen. Kamala Harris .............
Love it that Kamala is raising funds for Democrats
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Another big week for Harris: California Sen. Kamala Harris was shushed, once again, by Senate intelligence chairman Richard Burr, this time during her rapid-fire grilling of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. These moments are introducing her to Democrats nationally. Some social numbers: Between Tuesday's hearing and Friday, Harris added more than 64,000 new followers on her official Twitter account and 71,000 on her political Twitter handle. She also picked up 27,000 more Facebook followers by Thursday afternoon.
— Harris is smartly seizing on the new attention of the last two weeks, using it to help endangered senators up in 2018. She used her fundraising list to raise money for Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill this week. So far this year, Harris has raised $250,000 through mostly online, small-dollar contributions to support colleagues up in 2018 and more than $500,000 for her own political action committee.
— Clip 'n save this comment on national television from a frustrated Sessions during Tuesday's hearing: "I'm not able to be rushed this fast. It makes me nervous." It's ready-made for a future Harris ad.
— From the 2020 perspective, one Democratic operative tells me Harris is "very credible" and will benefit from recent events with women and minority voters — that is, the Democratic base. Another says the last two weeks are "feeding rocket fuel to her pathway toward 2020. I don't know if she wants it, but her star is rising."
Murphy says he's not running: These sorts of answers have a way of changing over time, but Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy was asked on Connecticut Public Radio if he is interested in running for president and said, "I'm not." He added: "I am interested in having a national voice. I am interested in doing that through the United States Senate."
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Go get 'em, Kamala!
