Like many Americans who watched the presidential debate on Thursday night, I knew when it was over that there was no way I was going to sleep. Not long after the debate, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper. Didn’t Harris flame out in the last Democratic presidential primary, leaving just in time to avoid an embarrassing loss in her home state, California? For women — and for Black women in particular — the gender and racial dynamics of the presidential primary race seem especially difficult to navigate. Unlike Trump’s previous female debate rival, Hillary Clinton, nary a whiff of scandal has besmirched Harris.

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Persons: Kamala Harris, Anderson Cooper, Cooper, Biden, Harris, —, Donald Trump, Donald John Trump, Trump, Hillary Clinton, nary, besmirched Harris Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Biden, Trump Locations: California